Label Layering

[Anonymous]

Good Morning!  I am trying to modify some abilities in our standard template.  One of the options I'd like to add is the separating of alignment notes (alignment station/offset notes) from the stationing.  Currently, when a user would like to freeze notes from another alignment in a viewport, the stationing also freezes...I would like to enable the stationing to stay on.  However, I can't seem to do this.  As an example, When I create an alignment all the labels (sta and notes) arrive at this layer   C-ROAD-ALIGN-OBJ-LABL-W. 102ND ST.  Is this something that is hard-coded in or is there a command I am just missing/forgetting about?

Thanks!

[tcorey]

There is an alignment labels master layer that is set in Drawing Settings. Plus, each label style, on the General tab, can be set to its own layer. Station labels styles can have a different layer than notes label styles. Station label styles can even have a different layer than other station label styles. If you freeze the master alignment label layer, set in Drawing Settings, ALL alignment labels will freeze. If you freeze the layer that is set in the Label Style, on the General tab, only labels that use that style, or other styles that reference the same layer, will be frozen.

[klugb]

Tim,

I'm not sure it can be done the way he wants to use it. It sounds like he is setup like we are, using the -* wildcard to get the object name in the layer names. Unless you abandon the -* you only get one layer option (C-ANNO-ALGN) for both the alignment sta labels and the sta/off note labels. Either that or you hard-code a layer name in the style, once again breaking the -* object naming

feature.

Unless i'm too confused also 

[tcorey]

Hello Bruce,

Yes, if you are using the -* wildcard, you can have multiple master layers, one for each different alignment, but not one for different alignment label styles. The only way to separate different alignment label styles for the same alignment is to hard-code the layer into the style using the option on the General tab. Wildcards are not available in the label style setting, only the Drawing Settings.

Looking more closely, you are trying to differentiate between alignment labels and general note labels? Two different beasts. Each should have its own master layer.

Best regards,

Tim