Labeling Geometry Points

2012-03-14

Product Documentation

Intermediate

Use different styles to label specific alignment, profile, superelevation, or cant critical geometry points along an alignment.

You can apply separate label styles to specific points in the geometry point label types. You can determine which points to label, and then apply different styles to each point type.

For example, you can create a label set that contains multiple occurrences of the Geometry Points label type. One occurrence can label the Alignment Beginning and Alignment End points using a style. A second occurrence of the Geometry Points label type can label the Tangent-Tangent Intersect and Tangent-Curve Intersect points using a different style.

Geometry point label types include:

Geometry Points
Profile Geometry Points
Superelevation Critical Points
Cant Critical Points

Note Superelevation and cant critical labels are not dynamically linked to the parent alignment. If the alignment geometry changes, the cant critical labels must be updated manually.

Tip Superelevation and cant critical point labels can also display a diagram that represents the cross section at each transition point. For more information, see Adding Superelevation Cross-Section Diagrams Along an Alignment.

Tutorial Exercise: Adding Labels in Groups

To add geometry point labels

Click Annotate tabLabels & Tables panelAdd Labels menuAlignmentAdd/Edit Station Labels.
Select an alignment in the drawing to open the Alignment Labels dialog box.
In the Alignment Labels Dialog Box dialog box, in the Type list, select the type of geometry point label that you want to add.
Select either Geometry Points, Profile Geometry Points, Superelevation Critical Points, or Cant Critical Points.
In the Style list, select a style for the label type.
This style is used by the geometry points you specify in Step 5.
Click Add.
In the <label type> Points dialog box, select the specific points to label.

Note
If you selected Profile Geometry Points, you must specify a profile to reference in the Profile Geometry Points Dialog Box dialog box.
In the Start Station column, either clear the check box and enter a new starting station value or accept the default.
In the End Station column, either clear the check box and enter a new end station value or accept the default.

Note
The default start and end stations for each label type are the beginning and end of the alignment. To change either the start station or end station, clear the check box, and enter new start station and end station values.
Repeat Steps 1 through 7 to add more geometry point labels.
You can add multiple instances of each label type. Each instance can label different geometry points and use a different label style and range of stations.

Note
In the Geometry Points To Label column, click to update the points to label.