Begining and Ending Station Labels

[andybosch]

I know there are some work arounds out there for this but is there any good way to get the beginning and ending station to show up with a decimal point and not all the major stations? Think more along of the old LDD look.

I know that there are some tricks with adjusting the increment and adding more minor stations. But I don't want to have to rely on each person to have to do that when they create an alignment. I would like it to be set up in the Label Sets so I can just pick and go.

It would also be nice not to have C3D label the beginning and end stations twice like it does if you use major stations and geometry points with beginning and end geometry points selected.

Maybe I am looking for too much and have to rethink the way we want to label our alignments moving away from the good old LDD look.

[mjfarrell]

You would be well served to use the link below to provide this feedback to autodesk directly.
It may have no immediaate results however at least they will know someone has an issue with this feature.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794

Moderator...Please do not DELETE the above link or post.

[WScottAllenPE]

Andy,

As far as your first question, yes, there is a way to get the begin and end station different than the rest. Create a Geometry Point style with your decimals as you want it for begin and end. Create a Major Stations style for the remaining major stations without decimals. Then in your label set, add both styles. To the right, you should see a column Geometry Points to Label for the Geometry Points style. You can tell it to use this style only for the Begin, End, etc.

I use this to create a style for begin "Begin Alignment, Station 10+00.00", major stations "11+00", inner geometry point "P.T. 11+35.21" and end "End Alignment, Station 12+00.00".

However, you still get a major stations label at the beginning and end, so those are stull duplicated.

I hope I understood your question correctly.

Scott

[chris805_1996]

You can create an expression to check to see if the station value is even. If it is return -1, if not return the remainder amount of the station value. In the label set the visibility to hide negative values. This should let you to have one station visibility for the major values and different for the beginning and ending stations of the alignments.