Learn about the various aspects of label sets within alignments and profiles, including profile data bands, in Autodesk Civil 3D. Understand how to navigate to these settings, edit them, and create new ones based on your project requirements.
Key Insights
- Label sets, which we use when creating alignments and profiles, already have sets created within Autodesk Civil 3D. These sets include 'no labels,' 'all labels,' and 'major and minor only,'.
- To modify or create a new label set, you navigate to the settings tab in the tool space window, go to the alignments dropdown, and select label styles dropdown and then label sets dropdown. This allows for tailored customization as per the project's needs.
- Each label type, when selected, enables you to choose different label styles. These styles include various pieces of information that can be returned inside a label, such as station value, raw station, station equation ID, northern Easting, design speed, instantaneous direction, alignment, name, description, length, etc. This ability to include detailed information makes label sets a flexible and powerful tool in Civil 3D.
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So for the next three videos, we're going to talk about something that we've talked about in the previous videos, but kind of took for granted when we were creating our alignments and our profiles, our profile view windows, and that is label sets. So in the next three videos, we're going to talk about alignment label sets.
We're going to talk about profile label sets, and we're actually going to talk about profile data bands. So the first thing we're going to talk about is alignment label sets. So I'm going to go ahead and navigate to my settings tab in my tool space window, I'm going to go to my alignments dropdown.
I'm going to go to my label styles dropdown, and then I'm going to go to my label sets dropdown. So inside of here, we have label sets that were already created for us. And when we created our alignments, you may remember, we use the no labels, we use the all labels, and we use the major and minor only.
So that's why these ones are showing up as gold. These ones were pre-created inside of the template file that was used when we created these drawings. This drawing was given to you, but when I created the drawing itself, I used the template file that had these label sets in them already.
So you often don't have to create these, but if you wanted to modify or create a new one, it's important to know how to do that. We're going to go ahead and go into our all labels label set. I'm going to go ahead and right click and select edit.
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And then inside of here, we have two tabs. We have the information tab, so the name, and the description, and who created it. And then we have the labels tab.
So the labels tab is basically a table that collects all of the different types of labels that you're going to be using in this label set. So this label set was being used for our dev main alignment and our dev branch alignment. And so what you have in here for your options is the types of labels you're going to use, then you have the label style, and then you can edit the label style, and then you can add those specific labels in here.
If I look here, the label set that we have here for all labels is set with major stations, minor stations, geometry points, station equations, design speeds, profile geometry points, and super elevation critical points. Now, if you have information in here that hasn't been designed yet, those labels won't show up, but they're there in case you do. We didn't have design speeds or super elevation critical points, so we don't have those labels inside of our drawing.
However, we do have major stations, minor stations, geometry points, station equations, and profile geometry points. So this information is showing up inside of our drawing. And so what you can do is every single type of label that you have here, when you select it, you're going to get a different type of station or a different type of label style.
If I go to major stations and then I look here, I have these different label styles and I can create new ones. And then if I go to a different one, what you're going to see here is it's got different label styles, and those are all controlled inside of the settings here, but they also
Show up here because we're starting to work with them. So moving on from these, what you need to understand is that every time you select a different type, you're going to get your different style.
And then inside of those different styles, you're going to see a label style composer like we saw for all of the labels that we dealt with before when we were dealing with station elevation label style or depth label style or station offset label style or multiple segment label style or our point of intersection label style, you're going to have your information tab, your general tab, your layout tab with your different types of components and text. And so this tick is a line. So that's done using this tick here instead of a line.
So what we're going to go ahead and do is look at the contents inside of the contents, we're going to have all kinds of different information that can get returned. So for this major station, we have station value, raw station, station equation ID, northern Easting, design speed, instantaneous direction, alignment, name, description, length. So all of these pieces of information can get returned inside of a label associated with the major stations.
Then we're going to have the same thing with the minor stations. Then we're going to have the same thing with geometry points and the same thing with station equations and the same thing with the design speeds and the same thing with profile geometry points. And the same thing with super elevation critical points and the same thing with cant critical points.
So each of these are going to be put in at specific places or increments. So with the major stations and minor stations, you have your styles, but you also have this new thing, which is your increment. So you have your major station increment of a hundred, your minor station increment of 50.
You can change these. And when you create an alignment and you choose this label set, Civil 3D will put all of these labels in based on this information that you've created inside of this label set. And then the geometry points to label, that's going to be controlling your geometry points, your profile geometry points, and your super elevation critical points.
If you click on the ellipses, you're going to get a checklist of all the different types of geometry points that you can label. And so we could spend an entire class going over every single label and going over all the different components that are inside of these labels. But what you need to understand, the most important thing to understand is that you are taking different label styles and basically curating a list of all the labels that you want to be placed on an alignment when you create an alignment.
And so if you, for some reason, have a label set that you like, and it's already provided, you don't have to ever change anything in here. You can live your life and do your design as you need it based on what's already provided for you. But if it doesn't look quite like you want it, then just know that inside of here, you can modify the style, you can change the increment, you can change the geometry points that are being listed.
And the way that you do that is you select the type of label you want, you select the style you want, you add it to your list, or you go in and you modify the style in this list here. So I'm going to go ahead and hit cancel. I'm not going to save because we didn't change anything, and I'll meet you in the next video when we talk about our profile datasets.
