AutoCAD Civil 3D

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About 6 years ago some people in the Land Desktop group were complaining about not being able to move the text in a linetype so as not to obscure other entities. Peter Funk gave me some suggestions that I've finally tried to figure out. <origianl post>

I'm attaching a document that explains how I went about it and a drawing showing an example. Drawing is 2012.

I don't say this is going to replace linetype. I'm also going to see if there's a better way of doing this with Civil Objects. But I've wanted to figure this out for a while and had some down time today. So this is for you to play with if you want. I was looking at my Undocumented Commands file and that reminded me of it since this done with un(or little)documented commands.

If you open the drawing. Select one of the magenta circles (nodes) in the center of the text to activate grips. Select a triangular grip and use it to slide the text along the polyline.

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Thanks, Allen. What a nice gift for all of us Civil 3D nerds here!

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Great tip - I wouldn't have figured that one out in a month of Sundays...!!!

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Thats a good one Allen. I need to study a bit.

I make c3d line curve styles with text like 8"W and add multi segments. If I need more I copy in place ans slide to position and if I need less I delete as needed.

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neilyj wrote:

Great tip - I wouldn't have figured that one out in a month of Sundays...!!!

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It obviously took me longer than that. I wasn't working on it all the time of course.

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Joe-Bouza wrote:

I make c3d line curve styles with text like 8"W and add multi segments.

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Yeah! As I said, there's probably a better way to do it with Civil Labels. That's my next step. I just wanted to put DONE on this one.

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tcorey wrote:

Thanks, Allen. What a nice gift for all of us Civil 3D nerds here!

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Believe it or not. When I tried to explain the EE program to one of our Engineers and mentioned that there are only 64 right now. He said "That's because no one else will admit to being that big of a computer nerd".

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Joe-Bouza wrote:

I make c3d line curve styles with text like 8"W and add multi segments. If I need more I copy in place ans slide to position and if I need less I delete as needed.

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Joe,

Are you creating a bunch of segments in the polyline to get multiple instance of the text or do you just rely on copy. Is there maybe a method of putting multiple labels on one segment that I've missed?

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Allen,

Thanks for sharing. Works great.

I will be using this technique for PADOT work.

I have been struggling with required spacing and visibility for my utility lines

and this should really help.

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AllenJessup wrote:

 Is there maybe a method of putting multiple labels on one segment that I've missed?

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Well, just clicking on the polyline will add the labels a second time.  But they'll be on top of each other, in the middle of each segment, not nicely spaced out along the line.  This avoids using the copy command, but doesn't really get you where you're trying to go.