Autodesk Civil 3D Label Style choice and preference is a bit of a quandary for all of us out here in Civil 3D Land. We do attempt to address that complex Civil 3D management and maintenance challenge in our Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit products. Most customers seem to agree we do a pretty good job. No product is perfect. This can be especially true when we thin…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 06, 2024
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Reference Template, Style Library, Style Management, Text Component Editor
There are a good number of things about AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Styles that may eclipse our previous notions about civil engineering and survey annotation. The path of totality in Civil 3D grants us all significant access to the data behind the many Features – That list of many things inside the Civil 3D Toolspace. These nuanced opportunities deliver to us the format…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 22, 2017
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style Management, implementation, Civil 3D 2018, Text Component Editor, Text Overrides
For understandable reasons I am often involved in Textstyle and AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Style discussions. A common one is about the simplex.shx font versus the Windows Arial Truetype font specified for use in the National CAD Standard and the ISO specifications. Specifically how that relates to named textstyles employed in AutoCAD Civil 3D templates and AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles.
The debate…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2014
Tags Style, Style Management, text, Text Component Editor, textstyle
Our Jump Customers often ask really good questions about tweaking the thousands of Civil 3D Styles we offer.
"Is there a way that you can make the curve label style not show all the 0’s ahead of the degree for the delta of the curve?
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For example, if the delta is 8° 23’ 34”, then it is displaying as 008° 23’ 34”.
My preference would be to not show all the 0’s before the…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 23, 2012
Tags label, Label Style, Text Component Editor, Style, Style Management, line label, curve label