Hello Team,
I've been trying to annotate some curb ramps, and as you can see in the picture below, we show the slope and an arrow showing where the slope is going. This is an old image, but with civil labeler I was able to produce a note that tells you positive or negative slope, still, the arrows are something we need to show. Does anyone have an idea how to produce this arrow automatically with Civil Labeler or is this something we need to to by hand? Where this image comes from is an old MicroStation file from another association.
If you create a linestyle for the arrowhead leader line you may be able to produce a label style using the line. The arrow direction would probably rely on the order in which you select the points for the slope label.
Regards,
Zane Pratt
Civil Designer
Hello Zane,
If you create that line style, what tool would you use to select this line style? "Place Label" tool or "Civil Labeler"? I am still a little confused on how to make the line show up Tangent to our label.
Thank you for responding!
-Enrique Salas
I am not sure, I currently dont have time to test this. Either you could try and get a delimiter line for the label and set the element template to use the linestyle or you could create a cell with the arrow and use the "Place Label".
Also I am thinking if you could use a dimension style with text "In-Line" and set the text to be above or below the leader in the dimension style.
We do a lot of curb ramp detailing (by hand) and we use a dimension style like Zane describes with the text in-line and the leader/justification set to "underline":
I don't know how that would work with Civil Labeler, but it might.
Unless we can move those labels off the design line without the slope updating, we will continue to label by hand. That's one of the drawbacks of Civil 3D - we can label directly on the line as modeled, but as your detail shows, we aren't actually labeling ON the line. The label needs to be shifted to the side, and doing so changes the slope as shown (because the surface is often slanted or warped). It will be interesting to see if that's any better in ORD.
MaryB
Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918Power InRoads 08.11.09.918OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2
Hello Mary,
Your approach is more editable and it works well with the program, manual even if it takes longer is a safer way to annotate. A question I had for you is what do the rest of your settings in your dimension style look like? I can't quite find where to set the leader to "underline" but I was able to match the settings that you sent here.
Thank you for your help!
Forgive me - I use these settings with the Place Note tool, not an actual dimension. I believe if you Place Note, you will get a note with an arrowhead and text above the line.
If you prefer to use your dimensioning tools, you could set up a separate dimension style with these settings:
This will give you a dimension with no extension lines, and an arrowhead on only one end (the "start" point).
You can also use your regular arrowhead dimension style, and alter the Tool Settings on placement like