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Managing Profile Label Styles

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Use the Toolspace Settings tab to create and edit profile label styles.

The types of profile label styles that you can create:

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Major Stations

Stations along the profile at major intervals

Minor Stations

Stations along the profile at minor intervals

Horizontal Geometry Points

Locations where the horizontal alignment geometry changes, such as the start of a curve

Lines

Lines that form the tangents of a profile

Grade Breaks

Locations where the vertical grade changes

Sag Curves

Sag curves in the profile

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. For more information, see Label Style Composer Dialog Box.

To copy a profile label style

  1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the Profile, Label Styles, and specific label style collection.
  2. Right-click the name of the label style you want to copy, and click Copy. The Label Style Composer dialog box is displayed.
  3. Change settings as required to produce the style you want. Specify a name for the style.
  4. Click OK to save the style.

To edit a profile label style

  1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the Profile and Label Styles collections. Click a specific label style collection.
  2. Right-click the name of the label style you want to edit and click Edit. The Label Style Composer dialog box is displayed.
  3. Change settings as required.
  4. Click OK to save the style.

To create a profile label style

  1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the Profile and Label Styles collections.
  2. Right-click the collection of label style you want to create and click New. The Label Style Composer dialog box is displayed.
  3. Change settings as required. Specify a name for the new style.
  4. Click OK to save the style.

To create a profile label set

  1. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the Profile, Label Styles, Label Sets collections.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Right-click the Label Sets collection and click New.
    • To copy an existing set as a starting point, right-click the set and click Copy
  3. In the Label Set dialog box, on the Information tab, specify a name for the label set. Optionally, specify a description.
  4. On the Labels tab, specify the individual labels to include in the set, and settings for each one.
  5. Click OK to save the new set.

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