Labeling ROW in Section Views
Recently I have been asked the question, How do I get my
ROW lines in my section views? followed immediately by the
statement Land Desktop could do it really easily. Well, we
are going to explore the way to create and use a style in
Civil 3D that will allow you to do just that. It will take a
bit of style and code setup but will only need to be done
once and then can be used as many times as you could
possibly hope for.
We will start by setting up an assembly or editing one
that we already use all the time. Once this is in the
drawing we can begin the process of setting up this style
and get ready to see some ROW labels in your section.
Once we get our assembly in we are going to add a few
generic links from the LinkOffsetOnSurface subassembly. We
need to make sure we add one link to the left and one to the
right of the assembly. The offset does not matter, as we
will use targets to place where these will end up.
Also when using this subassembly to create these we want
to switch the Omit Link option to yes. This is because we
do not want to see these links in our section or assembly.
What we want to do next is to delete the link codes
altogether. Then we will want to delete the point codes and
add RW as the point code. This will let us mark these
alignments in the section using targeting in the corridor
and add the appropriate marker style.
Once we finish modifying the subassembly we will want to
create alignments out of our ROW lines. Then we will use
them to target our LinkOffsetOnSurface subassemblies to
those alignments, placing the marker on them.
Then we can go ahead and create our sample lines and
section views the way that we always have.
The ROW lines will not be in your section as of yet but
we still have to create a marker style and attach it to the
code we created in the subassembly earlier in the exercise
(see picture 4). Under the General tree in the settings tab
is where you will find the marker label styles. This is
where you will create your ROW label however you would like
it.
Now that we have a marker style available to fit our
needs all we need to do is make sure that the code that we
used in our subassembly is present in the code set that we
are using for our corridor. If you go to the Code Set Styles
folder under the general tree in the settings tab you will
be able to add the code and style to the code set you are
using for your corridor.
Under the Code Set you are using, right-click on the
Point codes and choose ADD. It will ask you for a marker
style so if you only want your ROW label to show choose No_Markers.
The Code you create will be called NEW CODE at first so
rename it to RW and it will match up with the code that
you created with your subassembly. Then you can simply add
your created style to that code.
Once you apply the changes and say OK your ROW alignments
will be labeled in your section.
Just a little bit of setup can go a long way in Civil 3D.
Now we have a subassembly that can be saved into our common
assemblies, getting those pesky ROW labels into our sections
should no longer be an issue.
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