Thursday, July 14, 2011

Creating Point Styles with 3D Blocks

I have been recently working with a energy consultant who is looking to use point styles for visualization purposes.  I had previously showed them how to use Google Earth along with other Civil 3D tools to send the client a kmz file to give a good perspective of the impact on surrounding neighbors.  I would suspect that many of you have tried to do this and eventually gave up.  The key to using a mvblock as a point marker is to completely purge the block from the drawing.  For some unknown reason, the mvblock must not reside within said drawing.


As you can see from the screen capture above, you must browse to the location were the mv block resides.  The default location of the multiview blocks for Civil 3D 2012 is C:\Program Data\Autodesk\C3D 2012\enu\Data\Symbols\Mvblocks.



Finally, here is what the point style looks like in 3D.


Lastly, make sure that your point style has the marker turned on in the model view direction.


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