I have attached two blocks (crows feet) to my line label and they seem to work fine. I have a second line label (offset) so we can stack line labels as shown, using a second block for my crows feet (a little bigger) and for some reason it seems to be scaling the block down for that one. Shown in the pic are the two blocks I am using for crows feet, anybody have any idea why it is scaling this block for one and not the other?
Forgot to attach my drawing...the label style I am having trouble with is "MBS - Brg & Dist (OFFSET-1)"
The MBS - Brg & Dist (OFFSET-1) uses a block for the crows foot called "SR" the Brg & Dist (OFFSET-2) uses block "LR" and then MBS- brg & dist uses block "MR".
I'm not sure I fully understand your question but these 3 blocks all come in at different sizes when inserted as blocks at a 1:1 scale.
Could this be your difference in scaling dilemma?
The problem is that the label style does not honor the actual scale of the block. I was able to get the effect you are looking for by changing the block height to 0.24" as shown. You may want to massage the actual numbers once you figure out how it's working.
The way that Civil 3D labels deal with blocks is sometimes both a curse and a blessing. It will completely ignore the actual size of the block like regular AutoCAD objects would, and scales the block to the exact block height the you specify, as if it were being displayed in paperspace. So it's cumbersome that it ignores the block itself, but nice that you have full control over exactly how big it will be in that particular style.
Hope that helps.
"but nice that you have full control over exactly how big it will be in that particular style"
If that were the case, we wouldn't need to have this thread.
AutoDesk are you listening??
If by "final solution" you mean "doing it the way the program was designed", then yes, that's it.
Plenty of other Civil 3D Objects are controlled this way so it's not a departure in how Civil 3D handles things. Point styles for example.
If you were expecting to be able to control it some other way - I would post your idea in the Idea Station.
How do you know that this is how it was designed to work? If you must use an odd scale factor found by trial and error, then I do not agree that is how it was designed to work. If it worked like paper space there would be no need to “massage the actual number”, it would be calculated by the paper space scale factor.