Friday, July 02, 2010

Section View Station Labels

It is about damn time I posted.  I have been all over the US vacationing, learning VB.NET and teaching Civil 3D.

The following post was inspired by a customer of mine who does a lot of work for South Dakota DOT.  He wanted to label the station inside the graph, but the grid lines were harshing his buzz.  There is no way (to my knowledge) to force the display order of this item.

What we ended up doing was forcing our hand by putting the station label in the Centerline label inside of the band style.   However, there is no station value component inside the band!
Sooo, we jumped into the title text area and copied out the text.


Then we jumped into the band style and pasted in Section View Station into the text component editor.


Bada-bing!  It worked.  You can now use good ol' display order to bring the label to the front.

Happy 4th! Don't blow off any appendages.

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