Learn how to add labels the right way to your Civil 3D drawings in this tutorial. The article will guide you through the process of adding generic notes labels, all-purpose labels, and lot labels to your drawing using the annotate tab.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to navigate to the annotate tab then to the 'add labels' option in Civil 3D to add generic notes labels and all-purpose labels to your drawing.
- The author further discusses how to use the 'annotate tab' to hide override glyphs that appear, indicating that the text has been overridden from the original style.
- It also discusses how to add lot labels using the note label style, and how Civil 3D allows you to pick label locations and select the surface for accurate pad elevation for each individual lot.
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Now that we've created everything inside of Civil 3D that we're going to be working in, we're going to go ahead and set up this drawing to create one sheet for our overall design. So before we do that, we're going to go ahead and add in some labels to clean up our drawing a little bit.
I'm going to add in some of these generic notes labels that we created in our drawing template file. So the first thing we're going to go ahead and do is we're going to navigate to the annotate tab, the add labels option, and we're going to go ahead and add some labels. We're going to drop down features, we're going to select notes, and then we're going to select a label style or type of notes.
From here, we're going to go ahead and add some all-purpose labels that we created when we first set up our drawing template file. We're going to be placing them on the roadway. We're going to be labeling the roadway as an asphalt road.
So I'm going to go ahead and click add, and then from here, we're going to go ahead and pick the label location. I'm going to pick a location up here, and then I'm going to pick a location here. So these labels, I can go ahead and close.
I can take this label, and I can go up here to the contextual ribbon bar and select edit label text. So from here, I can then highlight this text and type in asphalt road and hit okay. And then again, I can also go to this label here, edit label text, and I can type in asphalt road.
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Now, this isn't very exciting. It's a lot like any other kind of mtext that you would put inside of Civil 3D. However, these labels will scale according to your drawing scale and in your paper space.
So the one thing that we do want to go ahead and clear is these glyphs that show up. What they are is they are letting us know that this text has been overridden from the original text style. So I'm going to go ahead and go up to my annotate tab of my ribbon bar.
I'm going to go ahead and go to the override glyph option over here. I'm going to drop down and I'm going to choose hide label override glyphs. So once I've done that, the override glyphs should disappear.
I'm going to go ahead and select my label. I'm going to go to my move or rotate label. I'm going to rotate this label.
I'm going to rotate it so it's in alignment with my roadway. Same thing. I'm going to go to my asphalt road here.
I'm going to click on this. I'm going to go to rotate label. I'm going to rotate it to my street.
So once we've done that, I'm going to go ahead and add a couple more generic notes. We're going to add in those lot labels that we created in our drawing template file. We're going to go ahead and go to add labels again.
We're going to make sure we're still in notes. We're going to go ahead and drop down our note label style. We are going to select lot notes and we are going to go ahead and click add.
So from here, Civil 3D is asking us to pick label locations. I'm going to go ahead and start here at lot 11. I'm going to click and so Civil 3D has now placed this label.
Now the interesting part is, is that it is asking us to select the surface or label style component because we are looking to get the information for our pad L call out that was underneath our lot and APN number. So I'm going to go ahead and hit ENTER. When I hit ENTER, Civil 3D is going to prompt me to select my surface.
I'm going to go ahead and select my finished construction surface. I'm going to go ahead and click okay. And now Civil 3D has created a label that gives me a pad elevation of 192.0. Now that I've selected my surface, I can go through and click each individual lot and it will place a label with the associated elevation from the surface.
So I'm going to go ahead and click. I have a 192 click a 192 click, and I'm moving on to the next. This one's a little different because we added in this drainage swale.
So my 195.57, my original outer boundary was 196. So I'm going to go ahead and click, click, click, click, click, click, moving around to 21, 2, and 22. Now I can go to my other lots.
I can click here, click here, click here, click here, click, and click. So then I can escape out of that command, close this window, and just like our asphalt labels, we can go ahead and go to any of these labels. We can go to edit label text.
We can select the text component to edit. And then I can go ahead and change my lot number. So my lot number being lot two, I can click okay.
And then if I had an assessor's parcel number, I could go ahead and click edit text. I can go and click on the APN. I can go in and type in an APN of something like 234-345-54, and hit okay.
And so we would have a lot number, an APN number, and a pad elevation associated with every single parcel inside of our drawing. So from here, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out. I'm going to save this drawing, and then I'll meet you in the next video.
