I have a bunch of polylines I want to display the areas for. I am using mtext and fields. Howver the fields format part always defaults to a less than desireable format. Is there a way to set the formatting how I want it for the entire file? Or is there a better way of labeling than fields? Thanks.
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An item for the wish list...
You can get around this if you can use a table to report the areas... If the cells all have the same format they can be edited together from the properties dialog.
John Mayo
Which label? I have a basic knowledge of them but maybe didn't dig deep enough to find one regarding area.
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That would work real nice as well Neil. I would just make sure there are no overlapping plines that wold create overlapping parcel segments. If the OP likes that avenue then MAPCLEAN may be of use to cleanup duplicate objects.
John Mayo
A few examples.
Also note that if you need to sum the areas you may just want to use the table or a hatch. A hatch will sum the areas even if they are disconnected. The resultant area can be reported with one field.
John Mayo
Alignment pushed to a site make good area parcel and elliminates the overlapping conundrum
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@Anonymous wrote:
When I cna't use tables I use C3D labels. They will get the area of a pline.
John
Can you explain how to do this as I can't see how it could be done?
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Create a line lable style under General>>Multipurpose>>Line
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Neat technique and dynamic too ... 🙂 I'm putting that in my template right now....
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