

Some of the blocks come into your drawing at strange scales so if you really wish to use that block, you will have to do some experimenting.They look fine in plan view but when you object view them, they look like some sort of abstract art (or from my eye - an extruded X). Bring in any of the Deciduous Trees (large or small). Some of the MVBlocks are NOT 3D from the standpoint of us bringing in the block and viewing it via the Object viewer as indicated below.Cars, People, Playground equipment, and of course trees. There are quite a number of MVBlocks that you can bring into your drawings. This is nominally the center of the tree. When you click on an MVBlock, Civil 3D will prompt you for an insertion point. Once you Right-click on that, click on Civil Multiview Blocks. Right-click on the grey part of the panel that says Tool Palettes - (and then whatever type you are using Imperial or Metric). You can also use the shortcut CTRL+3 to open it up. Luckily, its simple! You can open up the Tool Palette on the ribbon by the Home tab and Palettes panel. MVBlocks are not loaded on the palette by default - you have to hunt for them a bit. These can work to our advantage in our Civil drawings. What you see in plan view can look very different in 3D view. In honor of Arbor day today, I thought I'd show you how to place Multiview objects (also known as MVBlocks), specifically TREES on a surface.īefore we get into how-to, I thought I spend a little time talking about the MVBlocks that are included with Civil 3D 2010.
