You can use profile view styles to control the appearance of the graph that displays a profile.
Use the Toolspace Settings tab to manage profile view styles. All objects have an object style collection on the Settings tab that you use to create, edit, copy, and delete the styles for that object. For more information, see The Object Style Collection (Settings Tree).
To examine the properties of an existing style, follow the procedure for creating and editing profile view styles.
A profile view object can reference the following style types:
- Profile View Style. This style controls the format of the graph on which the profiles are displayed, as well as the title and annotations on the axes. For more information, see Creating and Editing Profile View Styles.
- Label Style. This style controls the format of two types of manually placed labels along the profile: station elevation and depth (elevation difference and/or grade between any two points). For more information, see Profile Labels and Label Styles.
- Band Style. This style controls the format of data bands above and below the profile view. Data bands show station elevations, horizontal geometry, vertical geometry, superelevation, sectional data, and pipe data. For more information, see Profile View Data Band Styles.
For convenience, you can define a group of band styles as a band style set. Then, apply the entire set of band styles to a profile view with a single action, rather than applying each band style separately.
- Projection Style. This multipurpose style controls the appearance of objects projected into profile views or section views.
- Shape Style. This multipurpose style controls the appearance of hatching for cut and fill areas between surfaces and profiles.
Tutorial Exercise: Editing the Profile View Style
Topics in this section
- Creating and Editing Profile View Styles
Use the Toolspace Settings tab to create or edit a profile view style.
- Creating and Editing Projection Styles
Use these general styles to control the display of AutoCAD objects projected into profile views and section views.