Period after direction in bearing labels

[enokiitake]

I'm trying to add a period into my bearing labels after each of the short name directions.  Example:  N.90°42'22"E.

I don't want any spaces between any of the characters.

I've already tried adding a text component and anchoring it to the bearing. That doesn't look right since there are no spaces and thus no room to put a period.

I want to add a period into the label after each direction as one single piece of text.

<[General Segment Direction(Udeg|FDMSd|MB|P4|RN|DSn|CU|AP|EN|DZY|OF)]>

The end period after the second direction is easy. Just add a period after all that stuff. 

Is there something I can add to this string of text to tell it to put a period after the first direction?

[sboon]

Try this and see if it will work for you.  Rather than trying to add the period to the original label I created a separate text component and put it there.

Steve
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[tcorey]

If you turn on Flip Anchors with Text, the dot will show up when the label is flipped for readability.

[enokiitake]

This does not fix the problem that I stated in my question for multiple reasons:

1.  I've already noted that I have tried using text components in the label. I don't have a problem flipping the component with the label. I have a problem with the period not looking right since there are no spaces in the bearing. The period text component has no room the fit between the direction and the degrees.

2.  As stated, I want my label to be of one single piece of text. Adding text components will make it multiple pieces of separate text.

I want the period to work naturally into the label. Not a work-around. There has to be a piece of coding or something that can accomplish this in the setup of the label.

[BrianHailey]

One component? Can't be done (currently)

How to avoid the spaces? Create a LOT of  components and use expressions to supress their display.

One expression for the N.

One expression for the S.

One expression for the E.

One expression for the W.

Each of those is a seperate component. The interior component would then be a period followed by the direction (without the NS and EW). Unfortunately, if you use a bearing, it will have the NS and EW. Using an azimuth lable sort of works but then you get some bigger number then you want so you'll need to create an expression for that as well (haven't gone through that entire process yet but it should be doable).

[doni49]

Brian,

How would you propose to do this?  When looking at the Expression editor, it doesn't look like it'll allow you to return a string which I think you'd need.

[BrianHailey]

Basically, the expression is a test. Is this value true? If it's true, display the text, if not, don't display (or some variation thereof). The way I do this is with the height of the text. So, in essence, it would go something like this:

IF(line is going north,0.1/12,0)

So, if the line is going north, return .1". If not, return 0. Use this for the text height on the N component. Repeat the process for the S, E, and W. String together the components, and BOB'S YOUR UNCLE!

Come to think of it, my moms brother is named Bob...

[BrianHailey]

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@doni49 wrote:

...it doesn't look like it'll allow you to return a string which I think you'd need.

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I would LOVE for an expression to be able to return a string. That would make life SO much easier!

[doni49]

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@BrianHailey wrote:

Basically, the expression is a test. Is this value true? If it's true, display the text, if not, don't display (or some variation thereof). The way I do this is with the height of the text. So, in essence, it would go something like this:

IF(line is going north,0.1/12,0)

So, if the line is going north, return .1". If not, return 0. Use this for the text height on the N component. Repeat the process for the S, E, and W. String together the components,

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 The reason I was trying to do it via expression editor, is that I don't see an "N" component or anything similar.  All I can find is a Bearing component which returns the ENTIRE bearing

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@BrianHailey wrote:

and BOB'S YOUR UNCLE!

Come to think of it, my moms brother is named Bob...

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 So your kids' uncle is Bob!  🙂

[BrianHailey]

You'll need to create a text component that only contains the letter N and then apply this expression to its height.

And my uncle is Bob...

[Bill_Myron]

sboon seemed to have the easiest label.

I came up with a different approach. I created some similar labels for pipes and structures in these threads:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/pipe-labels-with-direction/m-p/5237347#M25683...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/pipe-network-structure-label/m-p/5179837#M254...

The only issue is getting the Bearing to display without the directions so that we can substitute our own. I ended up using a long expression for this that ended up working out.

Then I created the N., S., E., W., expressions for text height and apply those to text components in the label composer. Played around with some locations and it seems to work out pretty good. Make sure to turn on the flip anchors with text option.

I know you only want 1 piece of text for this label, but you cannot be done.

I have attached a drawing with the label that I came up with.