He needed to pull it all together. He created a Layout tab. The template had thought of this, too. Title blocks were pre-loaded as blocks. Viewports were pre-configured for standard scales (1"=20', 1"=40').

On his screen, the AutoCAD Civil 3D interface looked like a chaotic cockpit of a crashing plane. Prospector trees were expanded, tool palettes were scattered, and the command line was screaming errors in rapid succession.

It was on the network drive. //HBA_Server/Resources/Templates/Current/Master_Civil_Template.dwt .

Then came the Profile. This was always the hardest part. Getting the bands to show elevations and stations usually took twenty minutes of tweaking text heights. Rowan selected the profile view and opened its properties.

He dragged the viewport over his site plan. The drawing regenerated. It was crisp. It was clean. It was the kind of drawing that Senior Partner Henderson wept over during late-night CAD sessions.