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Wesleypjones
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Feature labels not plotting

I have labelled features in a shp file and it appears fine on the screen. They even appear when I do a print preview but when I actually plot it the labels do not print? Any idea why or how I can get them to print?

Ok more info...
I am trying to label highways using the route number attribute in the dbf file associated with the shp file. I was able to label the features using the style editor and using the display manager. It seemed fine and worked great until I went to print the maps off.
The labels are dyamic and scale with the drawing I am sure this has something to do with it. Is there a way to have these labels be static?

I am sorry for the newb questions. I have all my official training in ESRI ArcGIS but the company I work for uses AutoCAD so I am learning. Edited by: Wesleypjones on Mar 19, 2009 5:06 PM
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Message 2 of 18
Anonymous
in reply to: Wesleypjones

Did you ever get an answer? I have a map I really need to get out the
door and I can't because the labels won't plot.
--
EB42
Civil 3D 2009 w/ SP2.1
Quad Core Xeon
(3)250GB SATA Drives
4GB RAM

Wesleypjones wrote:
> I have labelled features in a shp file and it appears fine on the
> screen. They even appear when I do a print preview but when I actually
> plot it the labels do not print? Any idea why or how I can get them to
> print? Ok more info... I am trying to label highways using the route
> number attribute in the dbf file associated with the shp file. I was
> able to label the features using the style editor and using the display
> manager. It seemed fine and worked great until I went to print the maps
> off. The labels are dyamic and scale with the drawing I am sure this has
> something to do with it. Is there a way to have these labels be static?
> I am sorry for the newb questions. I have all my official training in
> ESRI ArcGIS but the company I work for uses AutoCAD so I am learning.
> Edited by: Wesleypjones on Mar 19, 2009 5:06 PM
Message 3 of 18
Anonymous
in reply to: Wesleypjones

Save (export) the map to DWG format, then plot. Another option that may work
is turn on MAPPLOTTRANSPARENCY , type it at the command line. .

--
Murph
http://map3d.wordpress.com

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Did you ever get an answer? I have a map I really need to get out the
door and I can't because the labels won't plot.
--
EB42
Civil 3D 2009 w/ SP2.1
Quad Core Xeon
(3)250GB SATA Drives
4GB RAM

Wesleypjones wrote:
> I have labelled features in a shp file and it appears fine on the
> screen. They even appear when I do a print preview but when I actually
> plot it the labels do not print? Any idea why or how I can get them to
> print? Ok more info... I am trying to label highways using the route
> number attribute in the dbf file associated with the shp file. I was
> able to label the features using the style editor and using the display
> manager. It seemed fine and worked great until I went to print the maps
> off. The labels are dyamic and scale with the drawing I am sure this has
> something to do with it. Is there a way to have these labels be static?
> I am sorry for the newb questions. I have all my official training in
> ESRI ArcGIS but the company I work for uses AutoCAD so I am learning.
> Edited by: Wesleypjones on Mar 19, 2009 5:06 PM
Message 4 of 18
Anonymous
in reply to: Wesleypjones

Exporting the map to a DWG does bring the feature labels in as text, but
each letter in a road name becomes a text object. The drawing is so
large that it's impossible to actually work with it.

I started a support request with Autodesk, but apparently this is just
another flaw that won't be fixed for 2009 and it's unknown if it's fixed
for 2010. Nice to know the software we spent $38,000 of your tax
dollars on doesn't do what is advertised.
--
EB42
Civil 3D 2009 w/ SP2.1
Quad Core Xeon
(3)250GB SATA Drives
4GB RAM

Murph wrote:
> Save (export) the map to DWG format, then plot. Another option that may work
> is turn on MAPPLOTTRANSPARENCY , type it at the command line. .
>
Message 5 of 18
tjmapper
in reply to: Wesleypjones

In the label settings if you change the label from advanced placement to Multiline it will print. It wont be as pretty, but it will print.

If it jumbles all the labels up in multiline then i would open it up in 2008.

Sorry to hear your troubles. I have also had threads on the same subject.
Message 6 of 18

I ran ito this early on there is a MAX drawn of 2000 as listed below from Help:

Add labels to features on feature layers. The label is placed near the line, point symbol, or polygon. For point layers, if precise placement is important, display the label at a point location. For more information, see Displaying Fixed Labels at Point Locations. If a feature label obscures another label, it is not displayed. Feature labels are drawn on top of point symbols, lines, and polygons. By default, feature labels will not obscure point symbols. You can allow feature labels to obscure point symbols. For more information, see Allowing Labels to Obscure Points.

NoteFor performance reasons, the maximum number of labeIs drawn is 2000. If there are so many labels that geometry would be obscured if they were drawn, AutoCAD Map 3D does not draw them.
Specify the label text, font, size, format, color, background style and color, alignment, and rotation of the label.
Message 7 of 18
Anonymous
in reply to: Wesleypjones

The multi-line setting does let the label plot, but almost every arc
segment has a label and they overlap each other. It's useless.
--
EB42
Civil 3D 2009 w/ SP2.1
Quad Core Xeon
(3)250GB SATA Drives
4GB RAM

TJmapper wrote:
> In the label settings if you change the label from advanced placement to
> Multiline it will print. It wont be as pretty, but it will print. If it
> jumbles all the labels up in multiline then i would open it up in 2008.
> Sorry to hear your troubles. I have also had threads on the same subject.
Message 8 of 18
tjmapper
in reply to: Wesleypjones

After a few very brief tests, AutoCAD Map 2010 does not print labels properly.

Yay.
Message 9 of 18
urszimmermann007
in reply to: tjmapper

I ran into the same issue with line objects last week. Sorry to report that it is still not workint with autocad map 3d 2013. I opend a call and am waiting for answers.

Message 10 of 18
tryals
in reply to: Wesleypjones

I was able to export & plot successful in Map 2013 by using the "Convert Labels to Text" tool in the contextual  vector layer ribbon. It separates the text from the data.  

Message 11 of 18
Cartosmurf
in reply to: Wesleypjones

And the problem still exists in Civil 3D 2014. The power of a GIS is the link between the geometric information and the database. Not being able to connect them in a plotted map makes a GIS useless.

Message 12 of 18

Hi,

 

Have you tried >>>that<<< ?

Be careful, the description is for Release 2013, for 2014 you have to use "19.1".

 

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Message 13 of 18
Cartosmurf
in reply to: Cartosmurf

Adding the extra key to the registry influences the number of labels exported to AutoCAD when clicking "Save as AutoCAD drawing ..." but labels are still not plot to the pdf-file.

Message 14 of 18

An update:

I have documented this bug for different releases and registered under the following subscription case numbers: 06977310, 04803674, 09175103 - Add your own to increase its weight (my fist one dates from 2009...).

Autodesk support confirms the bug with Map3D 2013 and 2014. They have filed it to the programmers under ID DE9075.

 

You may get your labels when you don't rotate the viewport. When you rotate your view port, you won't get any or only some of the labels - depending on the rotation angle.

 

hope this helps and Autodesk fixes this one asap.

 

Message 15 of 18

I am using Autodesk Civil 3D 2020 and this issue exist in this version as well. 

Message 16 of 18
viniciosula
in reply to: Wesleypjones

Hi. I'm working in Autocad Civil 3d 2021 and after 13 years, the problem exist as well.

Message 17 of 18
braudpat
in reply to: Wesleypjones

Hello

 

1) In theory this is the solution :

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-map-3d/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

 

2) ---- The right Key ----

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Autodesk / AutoCAD / R1x.x

Cle : R17.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2007
Cle : R17.1 pour MAP/CIVIL 2008
Cle : R17.2 pour MAP/CIVIL 2009
Cle : R18.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2010
Cle : R18.1 pour MAP/CIVIL 2011
Cle : R18.2 pour MAP/CIVIL 2012
Cle : R19.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2013
Cle : R19.1 pour MAP/CIVIL 2014
Cle : R20.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2015
Cle : R20.1 pour MAP/CIVIL 2016
Cle : R21.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2017
Cle : R22.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2018
Cle : R23.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2019
Cle : R23.1 pour MAP/CIVIL 2020
Cle : R24.0 pour MAP/CIVIL 2021
Cle : R24.1 pour MAP/CIVIL 2022
Cle : R24.2 pour MAP/CIVIL 2023

 

3) BUT I am not sure that the bug has been corrected !?

 

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Message 18 of 18

I know this post is one year old but hopefully it'll help people who are still having this problem. This is the only way I was able to get the labels to print (previously only the points would get printed or just the labels, but never both). 

 

In my case I have captured the BING imagery which seems to have been placed within the MAP BASE layer in the MAP 3D Task Pane. 

 

The problem was (or I least I think) that the MAP BASE layer was above the layer which I was having issues with. Once I moved the Map Base layer to the bottom of the list, everything worked as it should and I got my point and labels to print. So I think it's just a printing / display order issue. 

MikolajBiernacki_0-1685022147852.png

 

EDIT: I was just exporting another map with the same set-up as the one I was having issues with and it happened again - no labels. I moved the MAP BASE layer to the bottom and it didn't work. However, when I exported the plan using the DWG to PDF option through the PUBLISH instead of PLOT command everything work fine.

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