Tuesday 1 February 2011

Point Labels

I am currently preparing site clearance appendices and drawings for a motorway refurbishment scheme to form part of the works information document.

To produce the drawings, I need to label 700+ existing road lighting columns to be taken down. I also need to tabulate these items onto a Word document so Civil 3d Points fit the job. I want to have a label showing the site clearance item reference inside a circle with an arrow pointing to the item similar to below.

Item label

The label style is composed of 4 components that include 2 blocks, 1 text and a line.

Components1

So I start by creating a block component using a block consisting of a hatched circle. Component properties as image below.

Circ

The text component to show the item reference. These are Point Numbers with “CC” prefix added to them. I used the block component above as an anchor. Component properties as below.

Point_number

Point_no

Next the Line component which I again anchored to the block component with properties as below.

Line_component

Finally another block component using an arrow block this time using the line component as an anchor.

Arrow_component

The anchor component is important so that each component remains linked if the label is dragged / moved. To drag the label, simply activate the sub item grips. Select the label and click the blue round grip. Grips will then appear for each component.

Sub_item_grips

Sub item grip

Since all other components are anchored to each other, if I grip move the circle, everything else follows.

Sub_item_move

To reset to the labels default location, click and right click the label and Reset Label.

Reset_label

2 comments:

  1. Would you mind sharing a drawing that contains this label style? TIA

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  2. Hi R.K.,

    I sent it to your Yahoo email.

    Regards,
    Harold

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