Discover how to add tables to your drawings in Civil 3D by either using the ribbon bar or the annotation drop down from the menu bar. Learn about the four options available when adding tables: add line, add curve, add segment and add area, and the differences between them.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of adding tables to drawings in Civil 3D. This can be done through the ribbon bar or the annotation drop down from the menu bar.
- There are four options available when adding tables: add line, add curve, add segment, and add area. The 'add line' and 'add curve' options are used for adding line segments and curve segments respectively. The 'add segment' option adds both lines and curves to a single table, while the 'add area' option allows you to create a table based on your area labels.
- The article also explains the difference between segment labels and area labels when added to the table. Specifically, area labels retain their identity in Civil 3D when added to a table. However, segment labels have to convert to tag labels to be included in a table.
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In this video, we're going to go ahead and add some tables to our drawing. So, to add tables, you can either navigate to the ribbon bar and drop down the add tables button here, or you can go up to the annotation drop down from our menu bar and go to parcel tables.
So, I'm going to go ahead and do it not from annotation. I'm going to go to my add tables drop down. I'm going to navigate down to parcel, and then I'm going to navigate over to one of the options that we have here.
So, we have four options available to us. We have add line and add curve. So, add line is a single line segment inside of Civil 3D, or not just a single line segment, but any of the line segments inside of Civil 3D that are part of your parcels.
Then you have add curve, which is a curve segment. So, adding curve segments to tables inside of Civil 3D. Then you have the option of add segment, which will add both lines and curves to a single table inside of Civil 3D, and then you have the option for add area.
So, you can make a table based off of your area labels for your parcels. So, there's a slight difference between the area table and the segment, curve, and line tables, and I'm going to go ahead and get into that right now. So, if I select add area, what you'll notice here in the table creation window is that we have an option for table style, how to select by label or style, or by selection on screen, by picking on screen.
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Then you have the options for what table layer you're going to be placing your table on, how you want to split your table up with maximum rows per table, maximum tables per stack, your offset between tables, and then how you want to tile your tables, either horizontally or vertically. So, the other option you have available to you is your behavior of your tables, whether it will update automatically with any changes that are made to the labels that are inside of your table, or whether you have to force an update by being in static mode. So, I am not going to click OK yet.
What I'm going to do first is I have to pick any of the labels that we want to add to a table. So, areas are different in that if you pick an area label and I select a few of the area labels and I click enter or I press ENTER, I'm going to get into the table creation window and I can click OK and create that table. I'm not going to create this table because I want to show you the difference that we have in our segment tables.
So, what I'm going to go ahead and do is click cancel, I'm going to navigate back up to tables, I'm going to select parcel, then I'm going to go to add segment. I'm going to click add segment, and inside this table creation window you'll notice it's identical to our area table. So, what we're going to go ahead and have is table style, select by label or style, pick on screen, table layer, how to split the table, and our behavior mode for our table.
Now, the difference that we're going to see in our segments versus our areas is when we pick on screen. So, if you choose pick on screen and you select some of the labels that you have inside of your drawing, you'll notice that when I dropped a window around here, Civil 3D highlighted everything inside of the window but it only allowed me to select
The labels of segments inside of our drawing. So, I'm going to go ahead and hit ENTER and we're going to get this question that didn't come up when we hit our area, when we selected our areas inside of our tables.
So, the window that comes up and the question that we get is label styles have been selected that are not in tag mode. What do you want to do? And it states that labels must be in tag mode to be included in a table. So, the difference between segment labels and tables for segment labels and area tables are that area labels remain as they are inside Civil 3D when you put them into a table.
When you put segments into a table, the labels currently in our drawing are converted to tag labels. So, you have to have a tag label to put it into a segment table. So, what I'm going to go ahead and do is select convert all selected label styles to tag mode and then I'm going to walk through the creation of the table.
So, I'm going to go ahead and leave everything as default. We will get into table styles and how to select by label or style in the next video. I'm going to go ahead and leave my split table exactly as it is now and my behavior mode is dynamic.
I'm going to go ahead and click okay and what you'll notice inside Civil 3D is that the labels that I had selected have now been converted to these tag labels. So, it is indicating L for line and then it's giving us a number. So, now if I navigate over to the left side of my parcels and click, what you'll see is Civil 3D will now create a table that will give us a line or curve number, the length of that segment, the bearing of that segment or the delta if it's a curve and then a radius if it's a curve.
So, from here, I'm going to go ahead and save my drawing and then I'm going to meet you in the next video where we'll start manipulating the tables that we've just created.
