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that Civil 3D command, you won’t have to make the same changes. Since it’s frustrating to do
work over because you forgot to change one out of the five things that needed changing, this set-
ting is invaluable.
Show Event Viewer Event Viewer is Civil 3D’s main feedback mechanism, especially when
things go wrong. It can get annoying, however, and takes up valuable screen real estate (espe-
cially if you’re stuck with one monitor!), so many people turn it off. At the end of the day, we
have to recommend leaving it on and simply pushing Event Viewer to the side if needed.
Show Tooltips One of the cool features that people remark on when they first use Civil 3D is
the small pop-up that displays relevant design information when the cursor is paused on the
screen. This includes things like Station-Offset information, Surface Elevation, Section informa-
tion, and so on. Once a drawing has numerous bits of information, this can be overwhelming, so
Civil 3D offers the option to turn these tooltips off universally with this setting. A better
approach is to control the tooltips at the object type by editing the individual feature settings.
You can also control the tooltips by pulling up the properties for any individual object and look-
ing at the Information tab.
New Entity Tool Tip State The same tooltips that we just discussed can be controlled on an
individual object level. For instance, you might want tooltip feedback on your proposed surface
but not on the existing surface. This setting controls whether the tooltip is turned on at the object
level for new Civil 3D objects.
Drawing Unit, Drawing Scale, and Scale Inserted Objects These settings were specified on
the Units And Zone tab but are displayed here for reference and so that you can lock them if
desired.
Independent Layer On This is the same control that was set on the Object Layers tab.
The settings that are applied here can also be applied at the object levels. For example, you might
want elevation to generally be shown to two decimal places, but when looking at surface elevations
you might want just one. The Override and Child Override columns will give you feedback about
these types of changes. See Figure 1.8.
Figure 1.8
Child Override indica-
tor in the Elevation
values
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