Splitting Your Screen

When working with Civil 3D, it is often incredibly useful to split your screen into two or more viewports. Now, for many of you this is something you’ve been doing for years, but whenever I teach a class or give a talk I always have one person shyly raise their hand and ask about. So just in case there are folks out there who don’t know how to split their screen, here’s how:

Switch to the View tab, and pull down Set Viewports.

 

While you can use Civil 3D and keep working the same way you always have, it is more effective (and far more fun) to start seeing that design model in action. When you split your screen, you can work through more design options and actually see your results.

Don’t limit yourself to labels, styles, profiles and sections that will just appear on your finished plans. Why not make some that help you as the designer do your job better? Give you more feedback? Then, the “pretty” ones that plot will update at the same time either in the current drawing or use data shortcuts or Vault to feed the sheet drawings. Tomorrow, I’ll have an example of this in action with pipe networks.

Also learn about:

Using Named Views