Labeling the Right-of-Way

There are several ways of showing this.  Here's a quick and dirty.....

Road as shown below.  Red lines are the ROW (cyan lines are daylight lines).

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Create alignments for the ROWs.  I used "Create Alignments from Objects" in this example.  Also, be sure to have your centerline alignment defined.

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Select "Sample Lines" from the Ribbon menu.

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Follow the command prompt by selecting your centerline alignment and then locate the station you want to set your sample line on.  It doesn't matter where you put the sample line, because you can always slide it along the alignment later.

Once the sample line is in place, select "Section View", right under "Sample Lines" on the Ribbon.

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If you already have an existing surface either in your drawing or shortcut in, you should see something similar to what is shown below.  Of course, it depends on you Section View Style.

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Now right-click on the sample line (white line shown above).  Click on "Sample Line Group Properties".  The following dialogue box should present itself.  Once there, click on "Profile Grade" (highlighted below)

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Add the two ROW alignments you defined earlier.

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Notice in the image above, there is no data in the Profile cells.  Go back to the profile menu and "Create Surface Profile" for both ROW alignments.

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Go back to the previous dialogue box (Image 7).  You should now see options to select under "Profile", as well as "Marker Style".  In this case, there was already a marker style set up for a ROW at 1:100 scale.  Unfortunately, this isn't included out-of-the-box and you'll have to find something that work for you. 

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You'll be able to modify your Marker Style so it is represented on your client's requirements.

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If you decided to read through this entry, I hope it made your day just a bit easier. 

-George