Huge text and station labels

[rade_tomovic]

I have a digitalised map with dimensions approx. 7 x 15 km. When I set up scale to 1:25000 (1 paper mm = 25 m on terrain ), alignment labels go to crazy mode, and as crazy I mean that they are all over the screen. One more question (very easy I guess, but I'm very new to C3D), how to display Layout tabs always?

[Pointdump]

W,

You'll need to change the text height in your alignment label styles to something smaller:

And for the Layout Tabs, here's info on pretty much every way you can lose and gain them back:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/model-and-layout-tabs-are-gone/m-p/4615509/hi...

Dave

[rade_tomovic]

But that text is 2 mm height on paper, it will be invisible if I change
height

[Pointdump]

W,

In Model Space you can change the Anno Scale without it affecting anything in your Paper Space Layouts. Try changing that:

Dave

[wfberry]

Dave:

Just a couple of things.  Anno Scale is for use of annotative objects.  I think it is best in most cases for changing Civil 3D labels is to change the Model Space scale in Settings.  Now, I cannot remember where the differences may lie but there is a potential problem somewhere.  Our ole sidekick, sinc, would  normally have stepped in now.

Bill

[Pointdump]

Bill,

I didn't know there was a difference between changing it in Drawing Settings VS the Annotative Scale at the bottom Status Bar.

Yes, I still miss Sinc too.

Dave

[AllenJessup]

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@wabafet wrote:

When I set up scale to 1:25000 (1 paper mm = 25 m on terrain ), alignment labels go to crazy mode, and as crazy I mean that they are all over the screen. One more question (very easy I guess, but I'm very new to C3D), how to display Layout tabs always?

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Use EDITSCALELIST to check how the scale is defined. I've recently had a problem where one drawing was mm to mm instead of Millimeter to Meters. Actually it said "1 paper unit = 1 drawing unit" That drawing wasn't created in Civil 3D (or at least not from out Template.

Allen

[AllenJessup]

Bill,

I believe that in Civil 3D they've set the Anno Scale on the status bar to change both. Your are correct in pointing out there is a difference.

Allen

[rade_tomovic · Accepted solution]

Scale is 1:25 (C3D metric, units meters, paper is in mm, so 1:25000 is 1 mm : 25 m). But, I found some solution, something like this:

1. Open new drawning, and set units to match your units (already done by default in my case)

2. Set up scale, pay attention to what AllenJessup said (you can set up accidentally scale to 1 mm : 25000 m if you don't see what C3D showing to you, been there)

3. Copy your map or whatever from original dwg to you new dwg, and everything looking good.

All annotaion things in status bar are turned on 🙂

[rade_tomovic]

Can someone accept that as solution? That would be my first 

[AllenJessup]

You're the OP. If that's the solution you should be able to do that yourself. There's no stigma to accepting a solution you came up with yourself. If the site prevents you from doing that. Post again.

Allen

[AllenJessup]

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@AllenJessup wrote:

I believe that in Civil 3D they've set the Anno Scale on the status bar to change both.

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I just confirmed that.