Discover the intricacies of label styles in relation to parcel segments and the process of creating them. This guide delves into the nuances of line label styles and curve label styles, detailing the steps to create a new line label style and customizing it for your specific needs.
Key Insights
- The article provides a step-by-step guide to creating a new line label style, navigating to the Annotate tab, adding parcel labels, and selecting the label style for line and curve label styles.
- There is an in-depth discussion on the customization of the line label style, from the text style, label visibility, display mode, to orientation reference, readability bias, and dealing with offsets for multiple pieces of information.
- While creating a new label style, the article explains how to add a 'Start Northing' in the contents, set the unit, precision, rounding, and digital grouping symbol, and then customize the text height, rotation angle, attachment, offset, color, border visibility, and drag state settings.
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In this video, we're going to talk about label styles as it relates to parcel segments. We're going to be creating some segment label styles.
And in order to do that, we're going to navigate up to the Annotate tab. We're going to go to Add Labels and drop down. We're going to go to Parcels.
And we're going to go to Add Parcel Labels. The reason we're doing this instead of going to Add Labels, Parcels, Single Segment, or Multiple Segments is that when you go into single segments or multiple segments, it automatically goes into the creation method and doesn't allow us to select the label style that we want to use. So I'm going into Add Labels, Parcel, Add Parcel Labels, so that I can have the options for dealing with my line label style and my curve label style.
We're going to go ahead and do single segments in this. So the label type is single segments. And I am only going to be adding in some line label styles.
So I'm going to go ahead and only drop down and change by creating a new line label style. Now you could create a curve label style. The only difference between the line label style and the curve label style is the data that's available to you in the components section of the label style.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drop down and select Create New for my line label style. And I have the line label style composer for a new parcel line label style. So inside of the Information tab, I have Created By, Description, and Name.
I'm not going to change the name yet because I don't know what information I'm going to be using in this label style. So then I'm moving on to the General tab. Inside the General tab, I have the Text Style, which is Standard.
I'm going to leave it as Standard. Label Visibility, I'm going to have as True. Display Mode, I'm going to have as Label.
You have the option for showing what it would look like in Tag Mode. I'm going to go ahead and leave it in Label Mode. I'm going to go ahead and have a layer of zero.
I'm going to have the Orientation Reference as Object. Forced Insertion, None. Plan Readability, True.
The Readability Bias is 110. And Flipped Anchors with Text is False. I'm going to go ahead and leave all the rest of this as is and move on to the Layout tab.
Inside the Label tab, we have the Table Tag. So that's the location that the label is being placed at. Then we have a Direction Arrow.
And this was put in by Civil 3D. So I don't need a Direction Arrow. So I'm going to go ahead and delete it out.
If I deleted it and I wanted to put it back in, all I'd have to do is go to this dropdown here and select Direction Arrow. So I'm going to go ahead and delete out the Direction Arrow. I'm going to go ahead and go to Bearing.
And the bearing is being displayed below the line. And that's based on the Text Offset for Y Offset of 0.025. And then same thing here with Distance. Distance, I can see in this window here, is being displayed on the top.
And you can see here is the Y Offset is negative 0.025. So I'm going to go ahead and delete out my Distance. And I'm going to select my Bearing. So inside of my Bearing, you can see the Y Offset of 0.025. That's actually, it's meant to be displayed above.
I was looking at this specific label here and seeing it below. But that's because of Plan Readability. If I look over here at this label here, it's being displayed on top.
Here it's being displayed on top. Plan Readability and Orientation makes it show below here and here. But you just have to make sure your offsets make sense for if you have multiple pieces of information.
So I could go ahead and hit zero and it would show up right on top of the line. But I don't want to have my parcel segments striking out my text. So I'm going to leave it as a 0.0250 Y Offset.
So moving on from here, I'm going to leave my name as Bearing until I've filled out my contents. So first things I'm going to do is I'm going to go to Contents. I'm going to hit the ellipses.
And then I'm going to go in here and delete out my Segment Direction piece of information. From there, I'm going to go ahead and drop down my properties. And I'm going to look at what I have available to me.
I have a parcel line number. So that would be like a label, like a tag, what the line number is. So L1 or L3 or L14.
So you have your segment length, which was like our distance. Then you have your direction, which is our bearing. Then you have a Start Northing, a Start Easting, a End Northing, and an End Easting.
So inside of standard Civil 3D, a lot of times in the templates that they have, they already have all of the text pieces that you would want. In our case here, I think we already have options for bearing only and distance only. So just so that we have a different label style, I don't think I would ever use this, but I could go ahead and choose Start Northing on this option here.
And I could go ahead and choose my unit as foot, my precision as 0.01. My rounding is normal. I'll have a period decimal character. I'll have a comma digital grouping symbol.
My digital grouping is one through nine, standard numeric. Then I have my sign as negative. So I'm going to go ahead and hit the arrow to come over so that we have a Start Northing.
And I'm going to go ahead and actually add in some text here. I'm going to click in front. I'm going to type in Start Northing so that we know what this is.
And then a colon, and then it'll have some data afterwards. So I'm going to go ahead and click OK. And so what you'll see inside of this label now is it says Start Northing, and then it has some numbers afterwards.
So from here, I have my text height of 0.1. I have my rotation angle of 0. I have my attachment bottom center. I have my X offset is 0. My Y offset is 0.0250. I have my color as by layer, line rate as by layer, and my maximum width is 0. I have a border visibility of false. If I wanted to have a border, set it to true.
Set your standards for what you want your border to look like. I'm going to go ahead and leave it as false. Then I'm going to go ahead and go to my drag state.
If you want to have a drag state, then you would set these standards for how you have your drag state. Drag state makes sense if you're going to go ahead and do something like a bearing and distance. This Start Northing might not make as much sense.
But I'll go ahead and walk through this. So I'm going to go ahead and have an arrowhead style of dot, I'm going to have an arrowhead size of point two, five, I'm going to do my visibility of true, I'm going to have a spline leader, I'm going to have my colors by layer, my line type is by block, my line weight is by layer, I'm going to do stacked text, I'm going to have false border visibility. So therefore, my border type doesn't matter.
Background mask is false. Border and leader gap. I'm okay with point 0250.
I have a text height of point one, a leader attachment is middle, a leader justification is true. Go with by layer for color and by block for line weight and by layer for line weight, or line type is by block, line weight is by layer. Moving on from there, we have our maximum text width, I'll still leave it as 0.0. And then we have the summary tab, which just summarizes all the previous tabs.
So inside of our layout tab, we are doing a Start Northing. So in my information tab, I'm going to go ahead and type in Start Northing for the name of my label style. Now I'm going to go ahead and hit OK.
I have my line label style as Start Northing, I'm going to go ahead and click Add. And I'm going to add a single segment line label style of Start Northing to this line right here. And so I have a Start Northing of 3756401.93. And if I drag state it, what you'll notice here is that I have that dot as my leader head.
And I'm going to go ahead and save this drawing. And then I will catch you in the next video when we start talking about surfaces.
