AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

Hi,

I cannot for the life of me get the start and end labels for any band to display within a profile view. Each band has the 'label start' and 'label end' labels ticked and the major/minor labels display at every other point but don't display anything at the start of the view or end. The profile views are taken from a simple straight alignment and the profiles themselves extend the full length of the view.

Any ideas why or how to fix?

Cheers,

Kevin

[#2]

Have you checked the geometry points to label dialogue?

See attached picture.

[#3]

I don't have civil3d in front of me right now, but I believe all you have to do is right click the profile, click profile properties, then click on the data bands tab, and make sure that you fill in the the circle next to start and end station. This will give you your major and minor labels in your data band at the start and end. I think that's what you're looking for.

[#4]

Thanks for your replies. Having the 'label start' and 'end' chainages ticked on doesn't seem to make any difference whatsoever. Whilst I agree that it may be something to do with Geometry Points, I now have the following issues with the bands:

- I can only display levels (at either of my 3 profiles) at Major and Minor chainages, despite all horizontal and vertical geometry points being turned on, the text being set to 'profile 1 level' and the displays for them turned on
- I can't display chainage texts at any horizontal points, only the ticks, except for the zero and end chainage points which don't display ticks

I'm just really surprised that the beginning and end chainages aren't considered Major and therefore aren't easy to display. Does anyone else have issues like this? or is it me? ;o)

Any more thoughts?

[#5]

The missing start/end chainage issue is a bug in the program. The solution, given to me by my local Autodesk retailer, is to turn OFF the last four label bulbs in the display tab. See attached screen shot.
It's counter-intuitive to turn them off, but doing so makes the start/end chainages show up.
Julie

[#6]

Thanks Julie,

Doesn't seem to work here unfortunately. If I turn off the four bulbs then they still don't appear, and all of my intermediate chainages (at IP's etc.) of course disappear. I can get the 0 and end chainages to display with the horizontal geometry start and ends turned on so that's a workaround.

However, in what I suspect is a related issue, it will not display profile levels at any point in a band other than at major/minor intervals either, even though all the profile geometry points are on, the layers are on, the bulbs are on, the labels set to true, profile1 correctly allocated etc..

If this is a bug, it's a major one in my opinion! Surely it can't be that difficult to display levels on a long section at specific places. Does anyone know if there are plans to sort this out or who i can shout at about it? Autodesk UK seem generally disinterested in these kind of things.

Cheers,

Kevin

[#7]

Hi Kevin,
Sorry it didn't work for you. I tend to make a lot of noise at the local level (with my Autodesk reseller) when I have an issue like this. He's always really good about helping me out. As I said, his workaround solved this problem for me and for other of his clients, as well. I think my particular strain of "missing chainage levels" bug probably came with the South African country kit install (which is based on the UK version of C3D, I'm sure), since it doesn't seem from these boards that people in the U.S. are having the problem. (I am using the U.S. install of C3D with the S. Africa country kit loaded on top).
Good luck trying to get better answers!
Julie

[#8]

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za_julie wrote:
The missing start/end chainage issue is a bug in the program. The solution, given to me by my local Autodesk retailer, is to turn OFF the last four label bulbs in the display tab. See attached screen shot.
It's counter-intuitive to turn them off, but doing so makes the start/end chainages show up.
Julie

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I've been trying to fix this forever, and this worked for me, still an issue in 2012 version of Civil3D.  Thanks!

[#9]

Have you checked the label components of the Horizontal Geometry Point and  Vertical Geometry Point labels in the profile band style? (Profile Data Band Style -> Band Display tab -> Label and ticks list box -> Horizontal Geometry Point then click Compose label.. button)

I've been caught out on some drawings where the band styles were not fully configured.

[#10]

Have you verified the correct profiles are mapped to the band?