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Annotating pipe networks in Profile view

Annotating pipe networks in Profile view - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Annotating pipe networks in Profile view

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- You've seen how to label in plan view but what about profile view? Is it different? Are there more options? Let's find out. To get started we'll go to the annotate tab of the ribbon and launch the add labels command. Now, I want to point out that there's more than one way to go about this. My personal preference, whenever I'm creating labels in the drawing is to start with this generic add labels dialogue, where I start with the object that I'm labeling and work my way down the list. I like consistency, I like things to always be the same as I do them each time. That makes me more efficient. But you may want to take some shortcuts sometimes and there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing something like selecting an object in the pipe network and using the contextual ribbon, which gives you some shortcuts to specific commands which as you'll see on the screen right now, I clicked the add labels command while I've selected a pipe in profile view, and you'll see that the choices here…

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