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.