Has anybody come up with a way to prevent the stacking (or bunching) of Cross Section Annotations in the Annotation Group Settings? One way I have used in the past is setting specific ITL points within the Annotation Group to label, but that only works for that one project/group of cross sections. The other idea I had was to put a bend (and an offset) in the annotation callout and leader to offset that point from being places on top of an adjoining point, but have not tested this yet.
Above are screen shots for what I am referring to that I did manually. If anybody has any thoughts on how to do this in the Annotation Group Setup, please let me know your thoughts. Please and thank you!
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Hi Matt, did you ever figure out how to implement the bend in the annotation group so it does it automatically?
Sorry, Matt Bombace I did see this but didn't have time when first noticed. My only thought would be to have separate alternate annotation groups ran independently for those tighter areas, specifically isolating each side and label respectively (e.g. bent EOP, non-bent Back of Curb). - By "ran" I mean, using the Drawing Model Annotation tool after drawings are created.
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But how would you trigger one from the other Shawn Cooke when using an "automated" Annotation (Group)? I could not think of any items that may be used as "triggers" to que up the offset leader for those tight areas where the annotations stack?
By "automated" are you suggesting you only want to run annotations at section creation? The Annotation groups can be stacked after the first run, so exclude from the initial run "automated" Annotation Group' Filtered points lists at the bottom of the dialog and add only those shifted versions next. You'll need to get creative about when to run those.
Shawn Cooke Yes sir. That was my thought as well. You're last sentence is the portion I am struggling with, how to "trigger" the shifted version to run in a congested Annotation scenario, automatically.
Based off of what I have read here and to my understanding, I don't believe this is possible. Is Shawn suggesting you create the sections, annotate with an annotation group (automatically), then figure out where overlaps occur, revise the annotation group to avoid labeling certain points, then go and manually label those points and areas where overlap occurs to "shift" labels around? This seems more iterative and completely misses the mark on why we have annotation groups in the first place. I'm very confused as to how this should be approached.
Ok, to clarify the process suggested in previous comments to annotate Matt's example image area (EOP).. without manual labels...
Step 1: Run Cross Section Named Boundaries with a base Annotation Group (Result: Sheets and Drawings are created with Grid, Slopes and normal labels you've determined will not to be bent. In this case, the EOP will not get labeled in this first step.
Step 2: Open a Drawing Model of one of the created sections, select the Drawing Production tab's "Drawing Annotation" tool, enable the All Drawing Models check box (pictured below) to add labels from an Annotation Group set to ONLY annotate the LT and RT using an Annotation Group filters that finds the EOP LT and RT (each will need a respective Annotation Definition added to this Annotation Group. These two Definitions will contain a filter and Label Cell (w/ the text fav) that shifts the label as shown in the desired image with bent annotations.