I'm trying to follow the instructions on How to Customise Strips to change the plan strips on my project. The hatch colors update, and subsequently the legend function updates, but the plan strip does not update, no matter how i try to "set current" as the instructions suggest. How do I get the Hatches data to translate to the plan strip?
Hi Christopher,
I was curious about your post and based on your screen capture, I would have thought it should have worked for you, so I gave it a try.
Here is what I tried in Civil 3D that worked for me, in the hopes something here might work for you. In my example, I turned on the "Strips" in The Locations Manager ribbon with the Band set to "Geology Code". I have a hatch for "Class 4B" which is a blue diagonal hatch and I want to change it to a red cobble hatch pattern.
In the Hatches command, I select the Class 4B material and copy this hatch to my project, which is what it looks like you had done as well. I changed the hatch to be red with our internal LEESCobbles hatch pattern. Note that this style is in LegendCode but will work in GeologyCode. Save this hatch.
In the Styles command, I select the Geology Code style and select the "Set Current" button and the drawing refreshes to show the new pattern.
I hope this might help you out.
Mike
Hi Mike,
I just want to clarify that the final screenshot of changing the Strip Style by Setting it as current is actually causing the hatch to update.The band dropdown in the first screenshot refers to the 3D model view and doesn't really affect the strips at all. In the second screenshot, those Categories are used just to help organize the hatches. Hatches are style agnostic. If you have a hatch for "GW" for example, it will use that hatch pattern and 3D colour regardless of how other things are set up.
Cheers,Taylor