Explore the critical functions and methods of manipulating point markers and labels in Civil 3D. Gain insights on how to effectively use grip editing for points, options for moving and rotating labels and markers, and the importance of setting the correct drawing scale for accurate point display.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed explanation on the use of grip editing for points in Civil 3D, which allows for manipulation of point markers and labels.
- Options for moving, rotating labels and markers, and adjusting the orientation of the text and marker are discussed, delivering a comprehensive understanding of marker and label manipulation.
- Emphasis is placed on the importance of setting the correct drawing scale, explaining that points will auto-resize based on the drawing scale, ensuring accurate point display in the model space.
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In this video, we're going to talk about manipulating point markers and point labels. So, to do that, I'm going to navigate closer to another point that I want to start working with.
So, I'm going to go over to our points that we had in our previous videos up in the upper right corner under this manual point creation method. I'm going to be working with this point right here, and I'm going to go ahead and select it. So, when we're working with points and markers, we have the option for grip-editing these points.
So, if I hover over the grip edit for the point, I have the options of Move Point, Rotate Label and Marker, and Rotate Marker. So, from here, we have the options of, if this was a standard COGO point, we could move it. We can Rotate Label and Marker so that we can move the text out of the way, and it rotates the label and the marker.
So, you can see that crosshair is rotating as I rotate the text around it, and you can Rotate Marker. So, the text will stay where it's located, and the marker itself will rotate as needed. Moving on from there, if we hover over the other grip edit, we have the options for Move Label and Rotate Label.
So, if we wanted to maintain the marker orientation but rotate the text, we can choose this option for rotating the text, or we can go ahead and select Move Label, and it will create a drag state for the label. It will automatically create an arrow leader and a text that points to the point marker. The last thing that I want to talk about is about the size of your points inside of Civil 3D.
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Oftentimes, you will come into a drawing and not have set your drawing scale, and when you come into a drawing like this, where you see that the text is starting to encroach on and overlap each other, you often want to check and make sure that you have your drawing scale set correctly. We can change things like text size in another video, but the first quick fix to making sure that your points are displaying correctly is to know that the points will resize themselves based on your drawing scale. So, if I navigate down to my scale options here, I can adjust the scale of the drawing to something that I would be working in.
So, for example, if I was working in 1 inch equals 10 feet and I selected it, the points inside the drawing will automatically resize to be 1 inch equals 10 feet when displayed inside of paper space, and you will be able to see how they look as they would be displayed in paper space while in model space. In the next video, we're going to discuss assigning and editing point label styles.
