topic Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number in Civil 3D Forum

Alignment Curve Segment Number

AllenJessup — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:21:27 GMT

I've been asked to include curve numbers on a plan set. I thought using 'Alignment Curve Segment Number" in the Label Style would work. When I added that to the Label it seemed to at first, at least for the first curve. Now all I get is ???. The Alignment doesn't have that many curves. So I could edit the labels by hand. But I thought I should know how to do it correctly. Any thoughts?

C<[Alignment Curve Segment Number]>
PI STA = <[PI Extended Station(Um|FS|P3|RN|AP|Sn|TP|B2|EN|W0|OF)]>
Δ = <[Delta Angle(Udeg|FDMSdSp|P4|RN|AP|Sn|EN|DZY|OF)]>
R = <[Radius(Um|P3|RN|AP|GC|UN|Sn|OF)]>M
T = <[External Tangent(Um|P3|RN|AP|GC|UN|Sn|OF)]>M
L = <[Length(Um|P3|RN|AP|GC|UN|Sn|OF)]>M

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

Jeff_M — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:38:20 GMT

IIRC, the Curve Segment # is not necessarily in the correct order...or, correct as I would think they should be. The number is based on the order in which they are created, not in order along the alignment. Why you are getting ???'s, though, I'm not sure. If there was a break in the alignment, my first guess, then the other data wouldn't be there, either. Can you post the dwg?

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

AllenJessup — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:29:25 GMT

It's a big complicated OLD drawing. So I extracted just the Alignment and Labels. Thanks for taking a look.

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

Jeff_M — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:51:57 GMT

Allen, not sure why, but what I just did 'worked' to fix the labels. First, I changed the Style's Display mode to Tag and the Curve numbers showed as expected (although they are out of order as I mentioned previously). I then changed the mode back to Label, edited the Label's Text component by replacing the existing [<Alignment Curve blah....>] with a new one of the same thing from the properties list, and the labels then displayed as expected. This is using C3D2016, SP1.

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

AllenJessup — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:02:30 GMT

Jeff,

Worked to me too. I do see there's a difference in the Label when you replace the component.

In 2015 the Curve # component now looks like this: <[Alignment Curve Segment Number(GC|UN|Sn)]>

Not just: <[Alignment Curve Segment Number]>

So updating that component works. But as you said they're out of order. So I'll change them manually. Thanks for the help.

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

rkmcswain — Tue, 24 May 2016 15:22:59 GMT

So @AllenJessup & @Jeff_M -- we want to do something similar.

We place the tag labels on the alignment (C1, C2, C3, etc.) and then want to put a box of the data in the vicinity, and have the box contain a reference to the placed tag label. Example below. There is no way that I can see to reference the TAG label in a second label. Note the C5 in the box.

An alignment table would work, except we want the format to be vertical and not horizontal.

Any thoughts?

TIA.

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:21:55 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Is there any way to renumber the segments? Very frustrationg when it is out of order

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:57:49 GMT

Hi Jeff, Here's a short video showing you how to renumber. Note that you have to select each tag in the order that you want them numbered.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/bca197a5-8d0d-45ba-a652-23ef7bfc1cf1

Re: Alignment Curve Segment Number

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 14:16:05 GMT

Does anyone have any idea on how to add the curve numbers to a profile? ie...PC1 PT1, PC2 PT2 etc