Civil 3D 2011 ships with two undocumented commands exposed – AECCIMPORTSTYLES and AECCIMPORTSTYLESANDSETTINGS. Each of the commands can only be found on the command line, which means they can be scripted easily, but they don’t have an interface.

They each have their own little peculiarities, but I think by name alone you can figure out what they do. Be careful though, without an interface, and without options, using the commands will overwrite anything in your current drawing. But that may be just what you need.

Type the command and you’ll be prompted with (Windows 7): Enter path for template file MCEACHRON\appdata\local\autodesk\c3d 2011\enu\template>: You can type the name of a template (.dwt), or you can type the name of a drawing (.dwg).

Your screen will blink for a couple seconds, but then check out your Settings tab!

Again, the commands are undocumented and unsupported – Use them at your own risk of course, and test them before trying them in production. We’ve seen commands like this exposed in the past. And in many cases they lead to great things to come!

Cheers!

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