Contour labels leave dashes when frozen

[jon]

I have a drawing with two viewports. One needs to show topography. The other does not. When I freeze the surface layer in the second viewport, the contour lables leave behind a dash. It's on layer 0 so I can't VP freeze without losing other things. 

Where do these dashes come from? They aren't a visible part of the contour label. They only show up when the surface is on a frozen layer. The only purpose they serve is to show where a contour label would be if the surface wasn't frozen.

[DaveM · Accepted solution]

Change to false

[DaveM]

In the settings tab right click surfaces - edit feature settings and change this variable to false in template and they will be off by default.

[jon]

Thanks dmartin. That's a little better than my workaround. I created a plot style with screening at 0. I called it NOPLOT. I was able to overide the plot style by selecting all of the contour lables. With your method, They're off the screen too. Much better.

Is there a way to make that default for the surface label style?

[DaveM]

Jon,

Yes, on the settings tab of the toolspace right click on surface. Choose the options "Edit Feature Settings" Find the title Contour labeling defaults and expand, choose false for Display contour label line.

Note: this is not a style setting it is a setting held in the dwg and should be changed in the template you use.

Hope this helps.

[jon]

Got it. Thanks for the help. 

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