Learn how to apply a label set to corridor section views in a detailed and step-by-step manner. The application of label sets is crucial in efficiently marking points and understanding their elevations and offsets within the corridor view.
Key Insights
- The application of label sets involves navigating to the 'tool space', expanding out alignments, and selecting properties. This allows control over what the section views look like.
- Creating a new label involves selecting 'create new' and naming it as per the requirement. For example, 'core points' was chosen in this scenario as labels were being applied to points associated with corridor views.
- The process also involves editing the current selection to display the desired content in labels. The final step involves linking the label set to a dev branch and selecting the appropriate code set style for the section being displayed.
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In this video, we're going to go ahead and apply a label set to our corridor section views. And to do that, what we're going to go ahead and do is navigate over to the tool space.
We're going to go ahead and expand out alignments. We're going to expand out centerline alignments. We're going to expand out dev branch.
We're going to expand out sample lines, our sample line collection, our section views, and then our section view groups. We're going to go ahead and right click and select properties. And then inside of our section view groups properties window, we have a tab for our section views and how we control what those section views look like.
And then we have a tab for our sections and inside of our sections, we have this option for label sets. So what a label set is, is it's just like an alignment label set. It is a conglomeration of many different labels that you can apply to a section view.
And so what we're going to go ahead and do is look at some label sets associated with the dev branch. If I select label sets and I drop down, currently we have no labels selected and that's why we have no labels displayed. If we wanted to, we could choose eg section labels, fg section labels, major and minor offsets or standard, or we can create a new one.
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I'm going to go ahead and create a new section label set. And so I'm going to go ahead and drop down and select create new. I'm going to go to my information tab and I'm going to go ahead and select the name of core points because we're going to be labeling some points that are associated with our corridors for those points that we have in our assemblies.
So what we're going to go ahead and do next is we're going to go to the labels tab. We're going to drop down the type. So inside of these types, you can have labels associated with major offsets or minor offsets, where you would then go ahead and select a label style and click add.
And then you could choose the increment of your offsets. I'm going to go ahead and delete out this one. Then we have the option for segments and segments are associated with different links or the lines that are inside of your sub assemblies.
Then we have grade breaks. So anytime that slope changes, it'll place a label at a grade break. And then we have corridor points.
We're going to go ahead and place a label based on corridor points. I want to go ahead and place some labels on the top of curb elevations for our corridors. So I'm going to go ahead and choose corridor points.
We only have one option, which is standard. We could go ahead and create a new one, but I'm going to work with what we have here for standard. I'm going to go ahead and go to edit current selection.
So inside of here, we have the information tab, what the name is. We have the general information for the label. So the label, the behavior, the plan readability, then we have the layout.
So currently what is inside of this standard label style is we have a line, which you can see here, this line coming up from the point we're marking. We have a point code. So it's returning information about the point that we're labeling.
So it would be like crown, top of curb, edge of pavement, something like that. And then we have offset and elevation. We have how far off of the center line is it and what elevation is it at.
So from here, I'm going to go ahead and go to the contents for my offset and elevation. We can see the different options available to us for the labels that are associated with these corridor points. So I'm going to go ahead and click on here on the ellipses.
I'm going to look at my properties tab of the text component editor. I'm going to go ahead and drop down in here. And what you can see, what you have available for these types of labels is point codes, point code descriptions, sub-assembly point offset, sub-assembly point offset side, sub-assembly point elevation.
Somebody has already created this one that has a text piece that says sub-assembly offset and the code for the sub-assembly point offset. And then it says sub-assembly point elevation and the code for the sub-assembly point elevation. You can always select a new one and then change the modifiers.
For my case, I like what they have here. I just think that there's too much text. So I'm going to go ahead and highlight sub-assembly point and then delete it.
And so it just says offset. I'm going to do the same thing for my sub-assembly elevation. I'm going to select sub-assembly point.
I'm going to delete it. So it just says elevation. I'm going to go ahead and click okay.
And then we have the drag state. So these labels can have a drag state and you can choose how it's going to look here. And then we have a summary tab.
I'm going to go ahead and hit apply and hit okay. Now I have the updated standard. I'm going to add it.
I'm going to hit apply and hit okay. And then I'm going to hit okay. Now we should have the core point label set linked to our dev branch.
Now, if I hit apply and hit okay, what you're going to notice is that no labels were created. And that's because we have an additional step that we have to take here. We have to go back into our section view group properties and we have to go look at the style for our section that we're displaying.
If I look at the style, this is a code set style. So the codes that we're linking these labels to are associated with this code set style. So what I want to go ahead and do is I want to change my code set style to something that is going to display the labels appropriately.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go to my all codes code set style. I'm going to click okay to apply it, but then I have to do one additional step. I have to edit this code set style to get the labels to actually display.
I'm going to go to edit current selection. I'm going to go to codes. I'm going to go to points.
And if I go to these points and I look at these label styles, you'll notice that all of them are set to none. In order to get this label to show up, I need to have a label style displayed, and then I can tell Sybil 3D which label styles to use. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on a label for my top curve by selecting the label style, choosing something like offset and elevation, and selecting okay.
I'm going to hit apply, hit okay. I'm going to go ahead and hit okay, hit apply, and hit okay. And when I zoom into my section view, what you're going to notice is that I have two label styles showing up here.
So what this is, is this is the code set label style, and this is the label set that we have created. So what I'm going to go ahead and do now is I'm going to go ahead and do this conversion that we're talking about. So I'm going to go and type cor, and what you're going to notice is Sybil 3D should auto select a command for you based on the text that you're typing in.
So I have this code set or this command saying corridor section labels conv for convert. So I'm going to go ahead and select corridor sections label convert. Sybil 3D is going to prompt me to select the section views that I want to convert.
I want to convert all of my section views. So I'm going to go ahead and type all. So then Sybil 3D selects all of my section views.
I have to hit ENTER one more time to lock in my selection. And then Sybil 3D is asking me to convert all corridor point labels too. It's currently set to code set style labels.
I want to use my corridor point style labels. So I'm going to go ahead and type p for corridor point style labels, and I'm going to hit ENTER. And what you'll notice is those code sets labels went away, and we just have the corridor label sets labels displaying.
And so now we have top curve offset elevation. So what I'm going to go ahead and do now is I'm going to zoom out. I'm going to save my drawing, and then I'll meet you in the next video.
