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Show Event Viewer Event Viewer is Civil 3D’s main feedback mechanism, especially when
things go wrong. It can get annoying, however, and it takes up valuable screen real estate
(especially if you’re stuck with one monitor!), so many people turn it off. We recommend
leaving it on and pushing it 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 such as Station-Offset information, Surface Elevation, Section
information, and so on. Once a drawing contains numerous bits of information, this display
can be overwhelming; therefore, Civil 3D offers the option to turn off these tooltips univer-
sally 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 looking at the Information tab.
Imperial to Metric Conversion This displays the conversion method specified on the Units
and Zone tab. The two options currently available are US Survey Foot and International Foot.
New Entity Tooltip State You can also control tooltips 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.
Driving Direction Specifies the side of the road that forward-moving vehicles use for
travel. This setting is important in terms of curb returns and intersection design.
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
may typically want elevation to be shown to two decimal places; but when looking at surface
elevations, you might want just one. The Override and Child Override columns give you feed-
back about these types of changes. See Figure 1.7.
Figure 1.7
The Child Override
indicator in the
Elevation values
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