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Annotate alignments - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Professional
Annotate alignments
- To modify our alignment labels, let's select the alignment, right click, and choose Edit Alignment Labels. Here we'll get a list of all the different types of labels that have been applied to this alignment. So we have Major Stations, and that style is a parallel line with a tick. And then our Minor Stations are just a tick. Other things that we have are Geometry Points, so any point of curvature or point of tangency. If we use Station Equations, that will add a label for that. Any Design Speeds, or even Profile Geometry Points, we can reference a specific profile and have that information displayed on our alignment. Let's say that we want to have every 50 feet labeled with a station call. So to change that, we'll go to Major Stations and we'll choose the increment at 50. And since that's going to be at every 50 feet like the Minor Stations, I actually don't need the Minor Station label anymore. So, I can select it and delete it here. Once I click OK, my labels update. The next type…
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