Learn how to create a generic note style in Civil 3D, a versatile tool that allows for labels that can be edited and placed around a drawing to suit different needs. This tutorial includes steps on changing label settings, modifying text components, and ensuring proper scaling based on annotation within the drawing.
Key Insights
- The creation of a generic note style in Civil 3D involves going to the settings tab, navigating to the general section, and selecting label styles>notes to generate a new label style which can then be named as per the user's preference.
- Note styles in Civil 3D are labels that can be edited and placed around a drawing. They are distinct because they scale based on the annotation scale within the drawing and can be used for generic purposes rather than specific labels such as spot elevations or alignment labels.
- These labels can be further customized by changing the text style, layer visibility, and layer settings. Additionally, options such as the border visibility can be set to false for an invisible border, and the contents of the note can be manually modified after it has been placed in the drawing.
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In this video we're going to go ahead and create a generic note style. We're going to go ahead and go to our settings tab, we're going to go to our general, we're going to go to label styles, and we're going to go to notes.
So inside of notes I'm going to go ahead and right click and select new. Inside of this label style composer for new general note label style, I'm going to go ahead and change this name to all purpose. Notes are interesting because what they are is they're basically labels that we can create inside civil 3D that will scale based on our annotation scale inside of our drawing, but then we can use them for generic purposes rather than spot elevations or alignment labels or parcel labels or something like that.
These are just labels that we can place inside civil 3D and then we can edit the components of the text and then they can be placed around the drawing and modified as we need them. So I'm going to go ahead and go to general. From here we have the text style, the layer visibility, the layer.
I'm going to go ahead and change my layer to c anno. I'm going to go ahead and click okay. I'm going to leave it as object-oriented, no forced insertion, plan readability true, leave it as 110, leave the flip anchor with text as false.
I'm going to go ahead and go to label. I am going to remove this border on this text. So I'm going to go ahead and go to my border visibility.
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I'm going to set it to false so that it's not visible and then I'm going to go up to my contents and I'm going to change the contents. So inside of notes there are lots of pieces of information that you can grab. Northing, Easting, point elevation, grid Easting, grid Northing, longitude, latitude, scale factor, and convergence.
So from here I could add those pieces in but for this label style all I want to be creating is an all-purpose label style. So what I'm going to be typing in is I'm going to have it say note text placed here and then from there we'll know that anytime we place this note inside the drawing that if we see note text placed here we have to come in and manually modify that note after it's been placed into the drawing. So I'm going to go ahead and hit okay and so we're going to make sure our text height is correct.
So inside of our paper space we want it to be 0.1 inches high. We're going to go ahead and leave it as is and then I'm going to go to drag state for these notes. I don't intend for them to be in a drag state but if they were going to be in a drag state I'm going to go ahead and do a spline leader and I'm going to go ahead and go with a dot because my assumption is that if I'm using this specific label I'm labeling an object or a space inside Civil 3D.
So an arrow generally tends to point to a specific spot whereas a dot is kind of an area. So you could either do a dot or maybe an integral so one of the kind of looks like a tilde. I'm going to go ahead and go with dot because I like how that looks inside my drawings.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit okay and then now you'll see that we have an all-purpose note style. So I'm going to go ahead and minimize these and then I'm going to save the drawing and then I'll meet you in the next video.
