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Parent and Child Label Style Display in Civil 3D
Parent and Child Label Style Display in Civil 3D
8/12/2017
When you need to create a variation of a Civil 3D label style create a child style.
A child is simply a copy of the parent that is linked to the original style. In a child style, you can override as many of the original settings as you like, and if the original style is ever modified, those changes will propagate to the child style(s).
All the modified (overridden) settings in the children will not change.
Create and Employ Child Styles in a Profile View
Autodesk's Jeff Bartels uses Vertical Curve Profile Labels to produce an instructive how to on Civil 3D Child Label Style method and practice.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
Did you know you could do that with AutoCAD Grips with Civil 3D Profiles and Civil 3D Group Labels? Maybe not. You have control.
Jeff breezes over the critical Style Management issues of component naming and Label Style structure to make his important points.
Band Label Superimposed Profiles
Band Label Superimposed Profiles
8/16/2017
How we can add more Profile bands to label superimposed profiles in a Profile View.
One way to Band Style Label Superimposed Profiles in a Profile View
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk delivers a bad and nasty edit hack of Band Styles in a Profile View.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
See the previous and related video post
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I was sorely tempted not to publish this video. Sorry. Jeff.
Everything beyond the most basic Band Style edit mechanics is
a great example of what NOT to do and How to execute that poorly.
The simple fact you'd show people ancient Simplex.SHX font AutoCAD ONLY symbol inserts in a Label Style is bad practice. No Unicode Support = print problems.
You could have easily added components to a Copy of the initial Band Style, but chose to mash up an overlayed second band is hard to justify.
OK. You could argue the second hidden band would show nothing if used again without any connected Profiles.
From a CAD Management and Civil 3D User QAQC consistency follow up perspective, the whole thing is demonstrably horrible.
The smart Civil 3D user take away...
How to find the good in the bad and ugly.
When you have to do repeated and similar edits in the Civil 3D Text Composer in any Label Style have an ASCII text editor open too.
A list of NCS and ISO Arial True Type Unicode character strings of important symbols is a critical resource if you ever have to publish to another CAD or GIS format.
Here's the Our Special Friends have Character post with a character symbol list and how to get more.
Create Multiple Profiles in a Profile View
Create Multiple Profiles in a Profile View
8/14/2017
Civil 3D makes it easy to display as many profiles as you like in a Profile View.
How to Superimpose Multiple Profiles in a Profile View
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk covers both static and dynmanic methods to get multiple superimposed profiles in a Profile View.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.and the Civil Immersion blog.
See the related video post follow up.
Comments
Jeff's good demo of the current Superimpose mechanics exposes some old and sloppy "fix it to create a feature" code in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
If its about the Civil 3D data behind, we should be able to create a superimposed Profile of at least any related child Alignments without the extra temporary stuff.
The fact you have to have a temporary Profile View to insert a superimposed profile of a formal Offset Alignment Profile is absurd at this point.