About Alignment Label Styles

Manage alignment label styles by specifying which label styles to use when you create alignment label sets, as well as which styles to use with the Add Alignment Labels command.

In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, the Alignment collection contains the Label Styles collection. The Label Styles collection contains sub-folders for labels sets, individual types of alignment labels, and alignment table styles. You can right-click a specific type of alignment label, such as for major stations and minor stations, and either edit the default label settings or create a label style.

The types of alignment label styles that you can create and use:

Use this type of alignment label style...	To label...
Major Station	Stations at major intervals, which use the default format of sta = <station> <units>. For example, sta = 1000 ft.
Minor Station	Stations at intervals that divide the major stations. To add minor station labels, you must have major station labels.
Geometry Point	Locations at which alignment geometry changes, which use the default format of <Geometry point>: <station>. For example, CS: 3+27+65.
Profile Geometry Point	Locations of profile points on the alignment geometry.
Station Equation	Points added on the Station Control tab of the Alignment Properties dialog box.
Design Speeds	Points added on the Design Speeds tab of the Alignment Properties dialog box.
Superelevation Critical Points	Stations at which the superelevation cross slope changes.
Cant Critical Points	Stations at which the amount of applied cant changes.
Station Offset	A point either on or adjacent to an alignment that lists station and offset information from the alignment to the point picked.
Line	Properties of a line entity within an alignment object.
Curve	Properties of a curve entity within an alignment object.
Spiral	Properties of a spiral entity within an alignment object.
Point of Intersection	Properties of a tangent-tangent intersection (PI) and either the associated free curve or free Spiral-Curve-Spiral (SCS) group. This label type can also be applied to either individual curve or spiral entities (even within an SCS group).
Cant Information	Cant information for a rail alignment such as applied cant, equilibrium cant, cant deficiency, and cant gradient.

To change the label type defaults, right-click the <Label Type> collection on the Settings tree in Toolspace and select Edit Label Style Defaults.