Inserting and Managing Labels in Drawings

Topics in this section

• Adding Labels to Drawings

  You usually add labels to drawings when you create objects such as points, alignments, or parcels. You can also add labels after you create the objects.

• Labeling Lines and Arcs

  You can label lines, arcs, 2D polylines, feature lines, parcels, and alignments with AutoCAD Civil 3D label styles. The general line label styles are available for lines, arc, 2D polylines, feature lines, lot lines, and alignments. You can also convert these general line labels to tags.

• Labeling the Overall Length of Parcels

  AutoCAD Civil 3D contains label properties that you can use to label the overall length on the outside of contiguous parcels.

• Setting Up Profile and Section View Labels

  Because profile views and section views can contain more than one profile or section, certain profile and section labels require that you specify which profile or section data to use for the labels.

• Staggering Profile and Section Labels

  Staggers profile and section labels for improved visibility.

• Staggering Data Band Labels

  Staggers data band labels for improved visibility.

• Editing Data Band Labels

  You can edit data band label objects with the Label Style Composer.

• Inserting Note Labels

  You can insert Note labels that are not anchored to a specific object.

• Labeling External References (Xrefs)

  You can label xref objects as you would native objects.

• Xref Label Behavior

  Existing Xref labels are affected by edits to the xref object.

• Identifying and Selecting Xrefs

  Xrefs are easy to identify when selecting reference text objects for label styles or objects for inclusion in tables.

• Modifying Labels in a Drawing

  You can modify label object properties by right-clicking a label and selecting Label Properties or Properties to open the AutoCAD Properties palette. Use Ctrl+click to select individual labels within a group for editing. You can also grip edit label components, flip, pin, and reset labels.

• Creating Label Tags

  Control label tags with the Table Tag Numbering dialog box. You can set the default starting number and increment options for table tags.

• Renumbering Label Tags
• Deleting Labels From Drawings

  You can delete some labels from drawings.

• Deleting Band Labels from a Drawing

  Delete band labels from a drawing.

• Restoring Band Labels

  You can restore band labels that have been deleted from drawings.

• Deleting a Label Style

  You can delete a label style if it is not being used in a drawing.

• Creating a Label Set

  Defines new label sets.