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Adding Multiple Contour Labels

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

You can create contour labels by specifying line segments that cross contour lines of a specified surface. You can add multiple contour label types. Modify the properties of contour label lines to change the label style for major, minor, and user-defined contour labels.

Use a line or polyline of an existing object as a label line or draw a label line (1) that crosses multiple contours.

To make a contour label mask out the contour use the Background Mask property in the contour label style. Edit the contour label style using the Label Style Composer, and on the Layout tab under Border, set the value for Background Mask to True.

You can also use the Masking property in the AutoCAD Properties palette to mask contour lines. For more information, see Background Mask.

Tutorial Exercise: Labeling a Surface

To add multiple surface contour labels

  1. Click Annotate tab Labels & Tables panel Add Labels menu SurfaceContour - Multiple.
  2. Select the contours to label.

OR

  1. Click Annotate tab Labels & Tables panel Add Labels menu SurfaceAdd Surface Labels.
  2. From the Label Type list, select Contour - Multiple to add multiple contour labels either along the contour label line or polyline by picking segments to create Surface Contour Label Group objects from the line or polyline objects.
    Note

    If you want to view or edit the settings for surface contour labels, click to display the Edit Command Settings - AddContourLabeling 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. Drag the contour label line across multiple contour lines until you reach the desired end point. Alternatively, after you specify the start point, you can click at individual points on the contour lines to create a contour label polyline. Press Enter.
  6. Note

    You can set the default interval value. In the Add Labels dialog box, to display the Edit Command Settings - AddContourLabeling 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

AddContourLabeling

AddLabels


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