Explore the process of utilizing profile label sets to label and manage various components within your profile. This article explains how to effectively navigate settings, label styles, and label sets to customize your design needs and streamline the labeling process.
Key Insights
- The article demonstrates how to access and modify label sets inside a profile. This includes navigating to the settings tab and adjusting the label styles and alignments according to specific requirements.
- A variety of label types can be placed on different components within the profile. The ability to customize these labels provides flexibility in managing and organizing your profile's components.
- Aside from selecting and modifying existing labels, the article also mentions the possibility of creating new label styles to fit unique needs. This adaptability enhances efficiency especially for those managing CAD programs on a daily basis.
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So in this video we're going to talk about our profile Label Sets. So same thing, we're going to go to the Settings tab of the Tool Space window.
We're going to go ahead and shrink this Alignments Label Sets for our Alignments, shrink the Label Styles for Alignments, and shrink Alignments. We're going to go to our Profile drop-down, we're going to go to Label Styles, and we're going to go to Label Sets. So inside the Label Sets here we have No Labels and Complete Labels.
So I'm going to go ahead and edit this Complete Labels set so we can see what that one looks like. The No Labels set, I would guess, is not going to have any labels in it. If I go to edit and I look in here it's completely blank and the Information tab says No Labels.
So under Complete Labels, under the Labels tab, like we've seen before, Information tab is Name, Description, Created By. For the Labels tab, just as we had in the Alignments Label Sets, we have a drop-down for type, Major Stations, Minor Stations, Horizontal Geometry Points instead of Vertical Geometry Points like we had in Alignments. Then we have Lines, Grade Breaks, Crest Curves, and Sag Curves.
So these are different labels that are going to be placed on different types of components inside of your profile. So you select your type, you select the style associated with that type, you can edit or create new ones, you select add, and it adds it to the list of labels that are going to get added into your drawing. Moving on from here, you have the options for your style, you have your increments, if you wanted to have an incremental placement of these labels, you have the Dimension Anchor options.
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So distance above, Graph View Top, you have the options for weeding. If you are trying to place too many of these labels, it will remove some of them based on this weeding factor. Then you have the option for staggering labels and lines.
So these are just controlling how these labels are being placed into your drawing and where they're being placed into your drawing. So just like we had in alignment labels, you're just basically curating a list of different labels that you want to add to your drawing immediately when you create a design. And so again, if you like the ones that are here, then it's more than fine to just continue to use the ones that are here.
If it doesn't look quite how you want it, you can modify it. Or if you just don't think that any of these fit your needs, you can go ahead and create a whole brand new one. So there are people who manage CAD programs, and their day-to-day job is to manage different label styles.
Somebody can spend a long time curating these lists. A lot of times, once you've done it, it's done. And you can use those for as long as you're working in the same working environment.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit cancel. I'm not going to save. And I will meet you in the next video where we talk about data bands.
