About Referenced Text for Label Styles

Use Referenced Text components in label styles to include references to other objects in a label. You can insert references to surfaces, profiles, parcels, and alignments.

Referenced Text is supported for most label object types in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Label types for points, parcel face, parcel segment, corridor labels, and surface watershed do not support reference text.

Each Referenced Text component can refer to only one AutoCAD Civil 3D object. For example, you can format a Referenced Text component to include an alignment name and its description, but it cannot refer to two different alignment names. To include references to two different alignments you need to include two Referenced Text components in the label style, one for each different alignment.

Note: You can format a Referenced Text component to include an expression. Note that if you have referenced an expression with a property that is not supported through the referenced text property field this results in questions marks (???) inserted into the label.

Tutorial Exercise: Creating a Label Style that Refers to Another Object