You can use the Layout tab of the Label Style Composer to define label components, which define the content of labels. Label components include text, referenced text, blocks, direction arrows, lines, and ticks.
Topics in this section
- Text
Use the Text Component Editor to format and define label text components.
- Property Fields
Use property fields to control the label content. You add property fields to label text components to act as placeholders for the label or tag content.
- Referenced Text
Use Referenced Text components in label styles to include references to other objects in a label. You can insert references to surfaces, profiles, parcels, and alignments.
- Text-For-Each
Use the Text Component Editor to format and define text-for-each components for a variety of object types.
- Lines
Add line components to a label style using one of two methods.
- Blocks
Add block components, such as a custom arrowhead or symbol, to a label style.
- Ticks
You can add tick components, which are short lines inserted at a perpendicular angle to another object, to a label style. For example, ticks can be used to mark the location of a station label on an alignment.
- Direction Arrows
Add an arrow to a label style to indicate direction.
- Copying Label Components
To quickly create a new label component, you can copy and edit an existing component.
- Changing Label Component Draw Order
You can change the label component draw order to control which label components are drawn on top of other components.