Grasp the intricacies of manipulating tables, labels, and properties in Civil 3D with this detailed article. Enhance your understanding of how adding information changes label displays and learn how table creation impacts future labels.
Key Insights
- The article provides a comprehensive guide on how to add information to tables in Civil 3D and how this influences the display of labels. You can customize your table properties to make them fit your specific needs.
- It is essential to note that the labels added to a table initially do not impact future labels that are created. However, if you desire to extend control over all labels of a particular style, you should use the style command instead of the pick on screen command.
- You can sort data in tables in ascending or descending order to enhance organization. After doing so, your tables will update accordingly, and you will notice that labels defined by a specific style will automatically become part of the table they've been assigned to.
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In this video, we're going to start manipulating this table that we just created in our previous video. But before I do that, what I want to go ahead and do is show you one way to add some information to our table and how adding information changes how some of these labels may be displayed or future labels may be displayed inside Civil 3D.
When we did the pick on screen option, it only converted the labels that we had selected into tag labels. If I was to go to a new parcel and I was to label that parcel by selecting annotation, going to parcel labels, selecting multiple segments, and selecting property 11 right here and choosing clockwise, you'll notice that if I zoom in, the labels that were created are our standard bearing and distance labels and our line radius delta or our length radius delta labels. So the labels that we added to our table originally did not have any impact on future labels that were created.
Now, if I want to go to my table and I want to start dealing with some of the properties of this table, I can go to table properties and select. And what you'll notice is that inside of table properties, we have similar items from what we had in our table creation window, except for we are missing how to select data into this table from this specific window here. We still have the table style and we still have the split table and we still have the behavior.
So I can go ahead and click OK to close that. And if I want to get that section for how to add data to my table, I go up to the contextual ribbon bar and I click add items. So inside of here, if I select add items, I have the options for picking on screen or I have the options for append to current selection set, which is the same thing or similar to the original way, which was selecting based on label style.
So I'm going to go ahead and navigate down to the label styles that I know I have in this drawing. So I have my parcel curve. So I have parcel curve labels.
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I have a delta over length and radius. So I'm going to go ahead and navigate over here and I'm going to check the apply box. And so it's telling me that I'm going to select add existing applying the parcel curve delta over length and radius to my table.
So from here, I'm going to go to parcel line. I'm going to go to bearing over distance. And then I'm going to navigate over and check the apply box and I'm going to go ahead and click OK.
And so when I do that, I now have a table that has more data to it. It has some options in here for L18, L12, L1, and C4. So as you can see, these items here are not numerical or in letter alphabetical order.
So what I can do to organize these, so what I can do is I can go to the table properties and then I can edit my table style by dropping down and selecting edit current selection. And then inside of here, I can check sort data. When I check sort data, I can have the option for ascending and descending.
So I'm going to go ahead and choose ascending and I'm And what you'll notice now is that my tables have updated. I now have my curves first, then my lines second, and everything is
In numerical order. So what I'm going to go ahead and do now is I'm going to navigate over and you'll notice that all of the labels that I have that were either bearing over distance or were the delta length and radius labels, those have converted.
I do have some labels that did not convert and that's because I didn't select the styles for those labels. Now when I go over to the new parcel that I labeled, you'll notice that those ones were also added to our table. Now this is where it gets interesting.
So I have told this table over here to add any labels that fall under the styles of bearing over distance and length delta radius to that table. If I was to go to annotation and I was to go to my parcel labels and I went to multiple segments and I went ahead and I clicked on property 12, what you're going to notice happening is when I click clockwise, it's going to add the labels. But those labels are now going to be part of the table that I just created because they are defined by the style that has been told to be added to that table.
So what you have to be careful is that when you create a table, if you only want a few labels added to that table, then you have to pick those labels individually. If you want to have a blanket control of saying all labels of this specific style need to go to this table, then you want to go ahead and use the style command rather than the pick on screen command. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to navigate back over to my table and then I'm going to save my drawing and then I'm going to meet you in the next video and we're going to talk about the table styles.
