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 think the key may be that you need to do something that causes the strip the be rebuilt by the extension. The simplest way is to set a different style from the current one and then revert to the original style. Both profile and plan strips are essentially static objects until something is done that causes the extension to rebuild them, they won't dynamically update when a change is made.
Hope that helps,
Taylor
Hey Taylor,
Thank you all for the help and sorry for the delay. I'm trying your workflows and it's not catching the changes. Let me show you what I'm doing, and perhaps we can figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I've set up a plan strip using the geology code strip for a borehole.
I want to change the color of the geo code "Med Silts and Clays" from white to a light brown.
I go into hatches, and I choose the med silts and clays and edit it to be brown. I click save.
Nothing has changed on plan yet.
I go to the styles setting, it was originally set to geology code, but now I'm moving it to a project specific one called Geology Code 60% Design.
All that's changed is the text sizes.
I click set current.
Nothing has changed colorwise.
I try switching back and forth between styles, switching back and forth between 2d exagerrations, and nothing. When I build a profile cross section, however, it works. Thoughts?
There are some nuances to how hatching works and when it updates within the Civil3D Extension. Generally, once a strip is built it doesn't update automatically if you change things like hatch colours. My initial guess, is that both styles use the same "Plan Strip Style" of "Geology Code", so changing styles won't cause those strips to be regenerated. However, when you created the profile strip, it was a new strip, so it generated properly with the new colour.Try either starting a new DWG file (for the same project, as the hatch colour is saved to the project) or switching styles to one that has a different "Plan Strip Set".