Point Label Style - Dynamic Reference to Alignment Station

[paul.struch]

Hey All,

I am wondering if anyone has had success creating a point label style that dynamically references the alignment station it coincides with? I looked at expressions, but they same to be constrained solely to point-specific properties. 

for example, the point style would be Pt#-Elev-Station. I realize I can run a report to populate station-offsets on a per point basis, or use alignment labels, but I am looking for a way to automatically populate the stationing within a drawing instead to remove a step in concatenating in excel/re-importing the information. 


Thanks!

[Jeff_M]

One way is to use the Dynamic linking in the Sincpac-C3D add-on package.

[fcernst]

Add a Reference Text to the point label style. 

[Jeff_M]

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@fcernst wrote:

Add a Reference Text to the point label style. 

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If only Point labels included Reference Text components...🤔

[fcernst]

Wow.. I wouldn’t have guessed that. 

What a glaring shortcoming of the software..

Can’t think of a more deserving Label Style for Reference Text than a Point Label..

[KirkWM · Accepted solution]

You can do this with Dynamo but it won't be fully dynamic as a typical C3D label but you can update it as often as you'd want.  The method utilizes that point label styles ability to reference propertyset data. The dynamo script looks at all cogo points and measures the offset to a given alignment and feeds the data into the propertyset which is then fed into the label style. If you want to give it a try I've attached a little demo.

ModelspaceStyle using propertyset dataPropertyset Definition

Dynamo Script

[paul.struch]

Awesome Kirk Thank you so much! I am still running C3D2020 as well so this solution works perfectly. Much appreciated!

[Joe-Bouza]

If dynamo is not your thing, using a pipe network structure styled to look like a point is quite robust

[pkerns]

I have never used dynamo before, but I really need to be able to display alignment station data on my cogo point label styles. I am using Civil 3d 2024. How do you use the dyn file?

[Joe-Bouza]

How many points are we taking about?

pipe network structures are very robust, and no learning curve, well one, you need to know how to export cogo as sdf and create a pipe network from GIS. pretty simple

[KirkWM]

Go to manage tab, then visual programming panel. Open dynamo and you can then open the .dyn file. You have to have just the one DWG open you are working on.