You can review and edit the default style and name format settings for profile views and profile view commands.
Settings are handled in a standard way throughout AutoCAD Civil 3D, and accessed in Toolspace on the Settings tab. You can control settings at three levels: the drawing, the feature, and the command. For more information, see Understanding Civil 3D Settings.
On the Settings tab, use the Profile View collection context menu to establish default settings for all profile views. At this level, you can change settings specific to profile views, which will override the drawing ambient settings for profile view.
Use the Commands collection under the Profile View collection to change settings for a specific command. At this level, you can change settings specific to profile view commands or override the settings at the level of the profile view feature.
Overrides to the drawing ambient settings at the Profile View collection level and the Profile View Command collection level affect only the specified level. The drawing level settings are not changed. For more information, see The Commands Collection (Settings Tree).
This section describes only the default styles and name format settings for profile view commands. It does not cover the drawing ambient settings, even though these settings are displayed in the Edit Feature Settings dialog box. For more information about the drawing ambient settings, see Specifying Drawing Settings.
For more information about profile settings, see Profile Settings.
To change profile view settings
- In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, do one of the following:
- Right-click the Profile View collection and click Edit Feature Settings
- In the Profile View collection, open the Commands folder, right-click the command for which you want to change settings. Click Edit Command Settings.
In the Edit Feature (or Command) Settings dialog box, profile view feature-level settings are marked with
. Profile view command-level settings are marked with 
. - Expand the default styles and default name format to see the current settings.
- In the Value column, click the entry you want to change. A small Browse button is displayed on the right side of the cell.
- Click the Browse button to open a dialog box where you can modify the value.
- In the Edit Feature (or Command) Settings dialog box, click OK.
