Just
because Civil 3D does a good portion of the work for us in the production
sense, keep in mind there will always be some clean up to do. The code style created (displayed in
cross-section below) shows a ROW label and offset labels (daylight and Face of
Curb). So what do you do when you get
overlap of two labels, as shown below?
Obviously, you move one.
Image 1
In regular Autocad this was quite obvious. In Civil3D it is quite simple, but the
capability is somewhat hidden.
You’ll see that when trying to select on one of the labels
to drag, the command will select all labels in the code set style. In the image below, I tried selecting just
the left offset label.
Image 2
This does not isolate the one label as needed. To isolate the label so that you can have the
ability to drag it, before anything is selected, hold down the CTRL button and
then select the label you want to drag.
Image 3
Now the blue grip shows up isolated on the desired
label. Now, just grab the grip and slide
to the desired location.
Image 4
Keep in mind that your label style for this label will
change from “Layout” state to “Dragged State”.
Image 5
You may have to make a few aesthetic changes to the Dragged
State condition to ensure it is being displayed to your clients’ preferences.
May seem a bit cumbersome, but remember the predecessor option. :) Hope that helps.
George,
ReplyDeleteWhen I try this and save then exit the drawing it resets the label back when re-opened. I don't see a way to "pin" it into the dragged state. How do you get it to hold the drage state location?
Thanks
Bruce
Bruce,
ReplyDeleteCurrently I am working on Civil 2011 and 2012. I don't have this problem. Looks like it may have been an earlier release problem.
Check out the link below:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Data-Shortcut-Profile-Labels-Dragged-State/td-p/1971705
Sorry I can't offer more help, but maybe a service pack is available to re-mediate that problem.
George
Can you please verify that this only works as long as the sections are in the same drawing as the corridor? It works fine that way, but when we create sections we have to do it from another drawing with a data shortcut to the alignment and xref the drawing with the corridor. This is a farily standard (reccomended) method and then the labels reset, for us.
ReplyDeleteThanks
Bruce
Bruce, you are correct. The dragged state does reset when you xref the corridor into a second drawing to create the sample lines and cross-section views. I agree that xref'ing the corridor is the correct protocol. I tried recreating the same instance in 2012 and the same problem occurs.
ReplyDeleteI will try and prod around and see if I can come up with anything. If anyone else has the resolution to this, please post. :)
Bruce,
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the follow-up post:
http://learningcivil3d.blogspot.ca/2012/07/civil-3d-code-set-labels-being-reset.html
Service Pack 2 resolved the issue for me.
Great thanks,
ReplyDeleteI haven't loaded SP2 yet because there are reports of issues with creating data shortcuts being broken. I'll wait to see how that pans out.
Bruce