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FiGuRE 8.7 Logan Court FGCL profile after the newly
created profile label set has been applied
Two grade-break labels and a grade label have been added to the
Logan Court FGCL profile (see Figure 8.7).
8. Save and close the drawing.
You can view the results of successfully completing this exercise by opening
Profile Label Set - Complete.dwg .
Creating Profile view labels
You have just seen how useful profile labels can be because they are applied to
the entire profile and continuously watch for new geometric properties to label.
However, this dynamic nature may not be ideal in certain situations, or you may
need to provide annotation in your profile view that isn't related to any profiles
in that view. Profile view labels are the solution in this case.
Proile view labels are directly linked to the profile view: the grid, grid label-
ing, and bands that serve as the backdrop for one or more profiles. Because of
this, you can use labels that are independent of any profiles. For example, you
might use a station and offset label to call out the location of a pipe crossing
through the profile view. Because the pipe crossing isn't directly affected by any
profile in the drawing, it wouldn't make sense to associate this label with a pro-
file. Instead, you would use a profile view label that is specifically intended for
the pipe crossing.
Three types of profile view labels are available in Civil 3D: station elevation,
depth, and projection. You'll work with the first two in the next exercise, and
the third will be covered later in this chapter.
Be sure your back-
ground color is set to
white before proceed-
ing with these steps.
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