Data Band at wrong station

[troma]

Hi.

A coworker who is no longer with us set up the data band styles & settings in our template, and they were working fine in 2011.  Then, on a new job in 2011, I encountered this problem.  I gave up.

Now I'm working in 2013.  The template was brought forwards, so it's the same settings, and I'm hitting the same problem as before.  The difference is this time I'm working on a really long profile, and I really really want the bands to work.

Here's the problem.

The ones I checked in blue are not part of the data band.  They are profile view labels, and they show the correct stations.

The ones circled in red are the data band.  As you can see I need to work on my gap settings, but that's not my problem.  The problem is the location of these labels.  There is indeed a PVI at station 1+165, but the label is 40m away from that station!  I don't know where to start digging to find the setting to tell that label to move 40m to the right, and tell 1+135.86 to move 20m to the right.

Any suggestions?  Thanks.

[Jeff_M]

This is a case where seeing the actual dwg would probably be a big help.

[troma · Accepted solution]

You know, getting a drawing ready for posting is always a good diagnostic proceadure.  I figured out that the label was attached to the start of the segment, but labelling the end of the segment.  The 40m gap was the distance from one PVI to the next.  I don't know how it got changed: it was working fine before.  And my persistant queery about feature lines applies here too: why can't we just label verticies?  Why does everything have to label the start or end of a line segent, when I want to label the vericies?

The drawing I'm attaching is one I made from scratch for the purpose.
I have a secondary question.  I made the change in the label style so it attaches to the end of the segment.  But if you look closely at this drawing, you will see that not all PVIs are labelled.  The first one has a vertical line, but no label.  The last one has a label, but no vertical line.  The middle ones are fine.

Any suggestion here?  Thanks.

[troma]

I solved the last problem by creating a band in the "Profile Data" family and labelling the vertical geometry in there rather than in the "Vertical Geometry" family.