About Layout Options

General options tab

This tab controls the formatting of numerical values, station/chainage values, and angles in outgoing reports and in the Project Explorer user interface.

Note: The Layout Options window is used to control both the layout of outgoing reports and the layout of the Project Explorer window. The effect of editing a value in this window therefore depends on the scope in which the window was opened. Refer to the Introduction topic for the Layout Options Window for further details.

Display unit options

Allows the number of decimal places to be specified for elevations, slopes/grades, areas, volumes, and other numeric values.

Station/chainage display options

There are two ways of controlling the formatting of station/chainage values in Project Explorer. You can either allow Project Explorer to control the formatting, or you can use the current formatting settings from Civil 3D.

Use Formatted Station Values- Use this option if you would like to apply the current Civil 3D station/chainage formatting settings to your reports or to the Project Explorer user interface.
Use Raw Station Values- Use this option if you would like Project Explorer to independently control the formatting of station/chainage values. The advantage of using this setting is that different formatting settings may be applied to each outgoing report and to the Project Explorer user interface itself without modifying the station/chainage formatting settings in Civil 3D itself.

Property Sets

Displays all property sets in the drawing and all the values assigned to them. When a property set is assigned to an object in Civil 3D, the property set will appear in the Layout Options window.

Bearing display options

Allows the azimuth, direction, and format of all bearing/angle values to be specified.

As well as allowing values to be formatted in either decimal degrees or degrees, minutes and seconds, - angles can be measured in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction from either a north or south azimuth.