Use surface legend tables to organize and consolidate information about the surfaces in your drawing.
You can create surface legend tables for all types of surface analysis, including directions, elevations, slopes, slope arrows, contours, and watersheds. For more information about surface analysis, see Analyzing Surfaces.
You create and edit tables for most objects using the same common procedures and standard dialog boxes. For information about modifying tables, see Modifying Tables.
Tutorial Exercise: Creating a Watershed Legend
You can control the display of the analysis in the drawing by adjusting the surface style Display settings.
Before creating a surface legend table, generate the surface analysis from the Analysis tab on the Surface Properties dialog box.
To create a surface legend table
- Generate the surface analysis that you are going to display in the legend table. See Analyzing Surfaces.
- 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 Edit.
- To add the legend table, click Annotate tab
Labels & Tables panel Add Tables menu Add Surface Legend Table
. - You are prompted to select the surface from the drawing area.
- You are prompted to enter the table type. Enter one of Directions, Elevations, Slopes, SlopeArrows, Contours, UserContours, or Watersheds.
- You are prompted to specify if you want the table to update automatically if the analysis information changes. Enter Dynamic to enable automatic updating.
- You are prompted to select the upper left-hand corner for the table in the drawing area.