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Adding Multiple Contour Labels at an Interval

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Intermediate

You can use specified contour label styles to add multiple contour labels to a surface at a specified interval.

Create contour labels by drawing a contour label line (1) that crosses surfaces contours and specify the interval (2) between the labels along those contours.

Modify the properties of contour label lines to change the label style for major, minor, and user-defined contour labels.

Tutorial Exercise: Labeling a Surface

To add multiple surface contour labels at an interval

  1. Click Annotate tabLabels & Tables panelAdd Labels menuSurfaceContour - Multiple At Interval.
  2. Click on the contour line to specify the start point. Follow the prompt in the command line to specify the next point on a contour label line and the interval along the contour line. Press Enter

OR

  1. Click Annotate tabLabels & Tables panel Add Labels menu SurfaceAdd Surface Labels.
  2. From the Label Type list, select Contour - Multiple at Interval to add multiple contour labels at a set interval along the entire length of the contour crossed by the label line segment.
    Note

    If you want to view or edit the settings for surface contour labels, click to display the Edit Command Settings - AddContourLabelingGroup dialog box. Set the Display Contour Label Line to false to display contour label lines only when its label is selected.

  3. Depending on the type of surface contour lines (major, minor, or user-defined) that the contour label line crosses, specify the label styles for the corresponding contour lines:
    • From the Major Contour Label Style list, select the style for major contour lines.
    • From the Minor Contour Label Style list, select the style for minor contour lines.
    • From the User Contour Label Style list, select the style for user-defined contour lines.
  4. Click Add.
  5. Click on the contour line to specify the start point. Follow the prompt in the command line to specify the next point on a contour label line and the interval along the contour line. Press Enter.
    Note

    You can set the default interval value. In the Add Labels dialog box, click to display the Edit Command Settings - AddContourLabelingGroup dialog box and set the Interval Along Contour property.

    All the surface contours that were intersected by the contour label line are labeled at the specified intervals along their entire length.

Ribbon

Annotate tab Labels & Tables panel Add Labels menu SurfaceContour - Multiple At Interval

Menu

Surfaces menu Add Surface LabelsAdd Surface Labels

Command Line

AddContourLabelingGroup

AddLabels


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