Labeling contours... Is it still true

trynders · ‎12-10-2003

I'm running 2012. Is it still true that I need to label my contours in every drawing? I have a drawing that contains my existing surface (about 90 Acres). I have labeled the contours in that drawing. I then have a output drawing that the existing contours are a data shortcut. The contour labels do not show up. Why?

cbess · ‎09-23-2008

Data referencing will not show the labels. You can do an xref or copy your labels from the other drawing, see this thread.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Copy-contour-labels-across-files/m-p/3140152/highligh...

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KMercier_C3D · ‎12-14-2010

The way our office does it is label the contours in one drawing and also create a data reference of the surface. In all of the other drawings XREF in the 'image' of the labeled contours and data reference the surface, set this data referenced surface to a "No Display" style.

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gccdaemon · ‎09-14-2010

You can have both the x-ref and the datalink in the same drawing so why not use both?

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