Chapter 06 – AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials – The Essentials and Beyond

hello my name is Eric Chappell author of
autocad civil3d 2013 essentials and this
is the additional exercise for Chapter
six in this exercise we're going to take
this drawing that has some alignments in
it and no labels and add a whole bunch
of different labels we've got five
different tasks that we need to do and
the first one is for all centerline
alignments we want to apply a label set
that labels the stations ticks and
geometry points so to get started I'm
going to click an alignment and go to
the add labels add edit station labels
command and you can see right now that
is that it's blank there aren't any
labels applied and we can see that in
the drawing as well so I'm going to hope
that there's a label set in place that
has everything I need
so I'll click import label set and we're
looking for stations ticks and geometry
points so this looks pretty good major
minor and geometry points let's try that
click OK
and this is exactly what I'm looking for
I've got the stations I've got the tick
marks and I've got the geometry points
so that needs to be applied to all of
the alignments so I'll just do the same
for Madison Lane import label set major
minor and geometry points that takes
care of Madison Lane the next we'll do
Logan Cort
major minor and geometry points all
right so that takes care of item one for
the second task we are asked to create
station office offset labels for all the
endpoints of the right-of-way geometry
where the curves begin and end where
there are corners that sort of thing so
I'm just going to start at the beginning
of Jordan court launch my add labels
command and I'm labeling an alignment
with a station offset fixed point and
I'm gonna do station and offset basic
circle with cross sounds pretty good
when you're doing this you can choose
whatever Styles you like kind of the the
goal of these additional exercises at
the end is to give you a little bit of
flexibility to do what you want so feel
free to take some liberties with the
styles that you choose and that sort of
thing I'll click Add and it asked me to
pick an alignment so I'll pick Jordan
court and I'm just going to snap to the
kinds of points that we've been asked to
label the beginnings and ends of curves
and I'm just going to work my way down
Jordan court picking up all of those
points
I do have my endpoint object snap turned
on which makes this go pretty quickly I
do want to pick up these two curves here
but not the other ends these ends I'm
going to pick up off of Madison Lane and
I also want to pick up the the
right-of-ways right here right here here
and here here and here just working my
way down the line picking up all the
different points and I'll even pick up
the end points here all right now I want
to do the same thing off of Madison lane
so I'll click Add and this time pick the
Madison Lane alignment and pick up some
points off of there and then finally
Logan Court so I'll hit enter to end the
command click Add again and that gives
me the opportunity to pick a different
alignment and now I can grab some more
points so you can see there's quite a
few points that we're labeling this is
what you'd see for a typical set of
design plans that that's calling out the
location of property information now
what I need to do is a lot of cleanup
you can see all these labels I don't
really like the look with them with the
Box are on the labels I'd rather do
something like this where I'm leading
into them so I'm just going to go on
around my drawing and clean up all those
labels even here probably wouldn't hurt
to drag this out and leader it because
of the conflicts there
so this is the least fun part of
labeling all the cleanup that you have
to do afterwards but it is a necessary
part of of doing this kind of work
you
and there we have all the labeling done
for the right of ways and edges of
pavement the third task we are asked to
do is create tag labels that start at
Jordan court with tag number one and
then go in the order of Madison Lane and
Logan Court after that so I'm going to
go ahead and change my label type to
multiple segments and make sure all of
my label styles here are set to tags we
don't have any spirals so we don't need
to worry about that I'll click the Add
button and pick Jordan court first
Madison Lane and Logan Court but I can
see right off the bat that my labels are
not going to even start out with late
with l1 and c1 so to take care of that
I'm going to click the alignment and
click the renumber tags command go to
settings and I want to set everything to
one lines curves just set everything
instead of thinking about what's what
I'm just going to pick everything at one
now when I pick the first label it
thinks that l1 already exists and it
does so all I have to do is create a
duplicate there and I'm going to have to
keep doing that option until there are
no more duplicates so it's not as bad as
it sounds I can work my way through
pretty quickly there aren't that many
lines and curves and I'm already out of
duplicates for curves still have
duplicates for lines
so now work my way down Madison Lane
and then the last one but not least is
Logan Court so that takes a care of all
of the tag labeling for all three
alignments the next thing we're asked to
do is to create a table in the drawing
for each of the three proposed
alignments so you can interpret that two
different ways you can say do I want to
see all three alignments in one table or
do I want to see three separate tables
one for each alignment and I'll show you
how to do each one I'm going to go to my
add tables command and do alignment
segment and let's say first that I want
to do all three alignments at once
that's actually the easiest option
because I can just pick by by style and
say anywhere I see the circle tag style
and the circle tag for a line and for
for curve I'm just gonna go ahead and
create a table out of that information
and when I do that it does all three
alignments all lines and all curves in
that table now if I want to do just one
alignment or the other really the only
way to do it is to hand pick the the
labels so I'm going to do ad segment
once again and if I - if I go by
alignment I I really have no way of
saying what what labels to pull into the
table so what I'm going to do here is
say select by label or style and I'll
click the pick button and I'll literally
go in and pick my line and curve labels
along a given alignment and it sounds a
little tedious but again it's really not
that bad because there aren't that many
of them
and now I've got a table for just jor in
court you can see the one individual
name in the in the table so do that a
couple more times they get easier after
this because the alignments are shorter
select select I'll do this this and this
so that's a pretty small table only
three pieces of information and then
Logan courts even easier right because
it only has one piece of information but
just for consistency I'll do the same
thing pick my single solitary tag label
and there's my table for Logan Court
okay and then step five says in all
cases we want to reposition the labels
so that there's no clashes with geometry
or other labels so just take a quick
look at our layout here we've got a
couple of places where things are
clashing so we can use the handy drag
State of the labels to clear out any
clashes probably have one here
everything else is looking pretty good
we've got a little bit of a clash here
might look better if we move this maybe
up here so you can see that labeling and
making it look good and all the leader
in and that sort of thing is kind of an
art form to get everything just the way
you want it slide this tag down a little
bit and I'd say that's pretty good we're
on our way to generating a very
realistic looking layout for a property
drawing so that concludes the additional
exercise for Chapter six