Hello,
I have added the symbol 'P' for parking. How do I add this symbol to legends. I came to know that legends can be
How to generate legends?
Unfortunately you are misunderstanding the legend creation process. You are 'stylizing' a line (or a polygon) and that's why you are displaying a 'series of P's. Instead of a line or polygon, you should be 'stylizing' a point.
This is how to create a legend .
Create a symbol from a POINT SHAPEFILE. (Reminder: a shapefile is vector. There are exactly three types of vectors: 1.point, 2.line, or 3.polygon. The symbol shown below is a point and has been 'styled' in the Style Editor. The source or the shapefile's name is Surv_Pnts. See image-1.
Next, create the legend table. Go to your paperspace layout tab=>Layout Tools Tab=>Layout Elements Panel=>Legend Icon. See image-2.
Finally, change the default legend Properties, e.g. items to include in legend, title, descriptions, font height. To edit the defaults, hover cursor on edge of legend=>tool wrench with dropdown arrow appears near upper right corner of table=>click the dropdown arrow=>select Properties from shortcut. see image-3.
NOTE: If you do not have a point shapefile for your parking locations then you cannot use this method. If you still want to use this method anyway, then you'll need to create a point shapefile from scratch or have someone else create it for you.
Chicagolooper
To create a symbol, try this.
NOTE: Steps 1 and 2 are mandatory to create a 'P' symbol. Steps 3 and 4 are optional.
Chicagolooper
Are you exporting an AutoCAD LINE and expecting a POINT shapefile in return. Why? That's like squeezing an orange and expecting lemonade.You should Mapexport an Acad point not an Acad line.
If you have point data you can use it to create a point shapefile. Methods to create point data include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Create an AutoCAD point: Use POINT command to create and place your points in modelspace.
- Insert an AutoCAD block: The block's insertion point, x-position and y-position as shown in the Geometry Section of Properties Palette, would constitute a point location.
- Create an ASCII file: Create and input coordinates (x,y or northing/easting or Lat/Long) into a csv file, e.g. xlsx, csv or txt. AutoCAD Map 3D, Civil 3D as well as other third party geospatial software, have coordinate libraries giving them the capability to draw geospatially accurate points using a variety of coordinate formats.
If you have a parcel shapefile and you know which parcels contain parking lots, you can use the down-n-dirty way like this:
- MAPIMPORT the parcel shapefile which will create Acad polygons from all parcels.
- Identify and isolate all the polygons that you plan to label with a symbol.
- DATAEXTRACTION on the parking polygons making sure you extract polygon CENTROID. Output the centroids, or center of mass coordinates, to an ASCII file.
- Use the ASCII to create and draw Acad points. If you are ambitious, you may enhance your ASCII with data. The more elaborate your data, the more leverage you'll have when you create your parking symbols.
- MAPEXPORT the points you've drawn to a point shapefile. (Or go outside AutoCAD and use the ASCII in another software to create your shapefile.)
- Use FDO connection on your point shapefile and create parking symbols.
Chicagolooper