Learn the steps and nuances of creating a new contour label style for a surface in a drawing template file. This tutorial guides you through the process of modifying existing label styles rather than creating new ones from scratch.
Key Insights
- The tutorial focuses on creating a new contour label style in a drawing template by modifying existing labels, offering an efficient alternative to starting from scratch.
- The process involves navigating to settings, expanding out surfaces, label styles, and contours. It includes editing the existing labels by layer contour label style, changing its name and creating a new layer for different types of contour text.
- The tutorial also provides guidance on how to adjust the layout tab, turn off border visibility, handle drag state and arrowhead style to achieve the desired contour label style.
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In this video, we're going to go ahead and create one of our last label styles before we start creating our drawing template file. So what we're going to do is we're going to be creating a new contour label style for one of our surfaces.
So what we're going to do is navigate to settings, expand out surfaces, expand out label styles, we're going to expand out contours. Now when you're creating a drawing template file, if you start from a base that you have, and there are drawing templates that are kind of what you want, but not quite exactly what you want. Instead of creating new and starting from scratch, you do have the option of modifying some of the existing ones.
So that's what we're going to do here. We're going to take this existing labels by layer contour label style here, and I'm going to go ahead and right click and select edit. So inside of here, I'm going to go to the information tab, I am going to change the name of this.
So I'm going to type in existing contours. Now from here, I'm going to go to my general tab, I'm going to notice that my layer is set to see topo context. I don't want this to be white, but I don't want to modify any of the other label styles.
So I need to go ahead and create a new layer for a different type of contour text. So I'm going to go ahead and click OK. And I'm going to click apply and click OK.
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And so what we're going to see here now is we have existing contours, I'm going to open up my layer properties, I'm going to go to see topo. So I'm going down into c dash t. I navigated past it. So let's see here.
Here we go see topo context. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to make this my active layer, I'm going to go ahead and do a new layer, so that it takes all of the same information from our see topo context. But I'm going to go ahead and name it see topo con e X, I'm going to change this color to 253.
And click OK. Actually, I'm going to probably go to 252. And go ahead and click OK.
That looks about how dark I want it to be. So then from here, we could go ahead and click in here and say topography, existing contour labels. And then I'm going to go ahead and close this.
I'm going to go back into existing contours, right click select Edit. I'm going to go to my general tab, I'm going to go to layers, I'm going to select my ellipses there. I'm going to go ahead and navigate down here, I'm going to choose see topo context.
And I'm going to go ahead and click OK. And then from here, we can go to our layout tab. And so what we're going to see here now is that we have our surface elevation, feet, and our precision is two.
So I'm okay with that. My color is going to be by layer. We have name surface elevation, visibility, true label location, surface elevation, we have attachment middle center, which is fine.
We have our color, which is by layer, and our layer, which is set to see topo cont EX. Then we're going to go ahead and navigate down. I don't want to have my border visibility turned on.
So I'm going to go ahead and leave the rest of this as is. I'm going to go ahead and go to drag state, I don't intend on having a drag state. So I don't really have a preference on what the visibility or type of my straight leader or spline leader.
I don't have a preference. I don't have a preference on my arrowhead style. So I'm going to go ahead and just hit apply and hit OK.
And so now we have our new existing contours, contour label style. So I'm going to go ahead and minimize these out. I'm going to save my drawing.
And then I'll meet you in the next video where we'll create our drawing template file.
