You can create surface legend tables for all types of surface analysis, including directions, elevations, slopes, slope arrows, contours, and watersheds.
- Generate the surface analysis that you are going to display in the legend table. See
About Analyzing Surfaces.
Note: You can control the display of the analysis in the drawing by adjusting the surface style Display settings.
- To edit the styles for the tables, on the
Settings tab, expand the
Surface collection, expand the
Table Styles collection, and select the collection for the type of legend that you want to add. In the
Settings list view, right-click the style and click
.
- To add the legend table, click tab panel menu .
- Select the surface from the drawing area.
- Enter the table type. Enter one of
Directions,
Elevations,
Slopes,
SlopeArrows,
Contours,
UserContours, or
Watersheds.
- Specify if you want the table to update automatically if the analysis information changes. Enter
Dynamic to enable automatic updating.
- Select the upper left-hand corner for the table in the drawing area.
Note: If you adjust a surface legend table to scale to fit into a viewport in a layout, the table scales up while not respecting the layout when plotted. Refer to
About Scaling Labels in Drawings for more information.
About Scaling Labels in Drawings
Note: which seems caused by the difference of paper space and model space scaling but user are not aware there is a setting as outlined
Tutorial Exercise: Creating a Watershed Legend