You can label profiles and profile views using different label types.
Profile labels
When you create a layout profile, you can automatically label it using label styles you specify in the Create Profile - Draw New dialog box. For other types of profiles, add labels using the Edit Labels command.
Profile label styles can be configured to mark any of the following standard points along the profile:
- Major and minor stations of the parent horizontal alignment
- Horizontal geometry points
- Grade breaks
- Lines
- Sag curves
- Crest curves
You can save profile label styles as a profile label set and apply the labels to a profile as a group.
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This type of profile label style... |
Labels... |
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Major Stations |
Stations along the profile at major intervals |
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Minor Stations |
Stations along the profile at minor intervals |
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Horizontal Geometry Points |
Locations where the horizontal alignment geometry changes, such as the start of a curve |
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Lines |
Lines that form the tangents of a profile |
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Grade Breaks |
Locations where the vertical grade changes |
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Sag Curves |
Sag curves in the profile |
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Crest Curves |
Crest curves in a profile |
When you need a new profile label style, it is usually easiest to find an existing style that is similar to what you need, then copy it and make the required changes. You can also create a style and change whatever default values are not suitable.
You can group several profile label styles into a label set. Apply the label set to a profile as a single setting. An existing label set can be edited or copied to create a new one.
Label spacing is an important design consideration for surface profiles. Wherever they cross uneven surfaces, this type of profile can have many short tangents and closely spaced grade breaks. As a result, labels for these features can overlap and become unreadable when they require more horizontal space than is available. To address this condition for one label type, the Label Set dialog box provides a weeding setting that suppresses grade break labels within a specified distance of each other.
Profile label styles are created and edited using the Label Style Composer.
Profile view labels
After creating a profile view, use the Add Labels dialog box to manually add labels to particular points of interest anywhere on the profile view grid. These labels can be of three types:
- Station Elevation, showing the station and elevation of a point.
- Depth, showing the elevation difference between two points, and other data such as slope and distance.
- Projection, showing the station and elevation of a projected object.
Create and edit the styles for profile view labels using the Label Style Composer.
If a profile view contains projected objects, label styles for these objects are managed as feature settings for the profile view object.
Profile view bands
Place data bands along the top or bottom of a profile view grid to annotate the various profile lines with station and elevation data, vertical or horizontal geometry points, or superelevation, sectional, or pipe network data. You can also group a set of commonly used data bands into a band set that can be applied to a profile view as a single selection.
