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Maverick91
2012-03-26, 05:51 PM
I'm looking for a quick way to label northings and eastings anywhere on an alignment. Is there an annotation already for this, or should I try to create my own? TIA.
mjfarrell
2012-03-27, 02:53 AM
Northings and Easting can be added to most alignment label styles.
And then they will be available within your alignment label set(s)
mjfarrell
2012-03-27, 03:07 AM
Perhaps even use a random point with a piece of Reference text to get the alignment name in the label if that is needed. Although Northing and Easting are relevent even without an alignment name, (I think)
jpaulsen
2012-03-27, 01:08 PM
You will need to create your own.

We use a General Note label with reference text. The reference text needs to reference either a point or an alignment.

We used alignment reference text because the NE shown in the label is based on the label location. The drawing will need to contain an alignment for it to work so we have been known to create a dummy alignment with a no-display style.
mjfarrell
2012-03-28, 02:31 AM
Why would he need or want a dummy alignment in a file where there is already an alignment?
Did you try using a Point and just adding the Alignment name in as a description override to the group?
jpaulsen
2012-03-28, 01:39 PM
If there is an alignment in the drawing he obviously would not need a dummy alignment. There are times you may want to label a NE in a drawing that does not already contain an alignment.
Maverick91
2012-03-28, 02:34 PM
In my case, I needed N&E'ings on an alignment. I just copied and modified another label style that already had N&E'ings. It's quick and dirty and it works.
mjfarrell
2012-03-28, 05:05 PM
There are times you may want to label a NE in a drawing that does not already contain an alignment.

In such cases why not just use a POINT? Their labels are already perfectly suited to label Northings and Eastings without the overhead of needing to add any invisble alignments to accomplish the task.
Jeff_M
2012-03-28, 05:44 PM
In such cases why not just use a POINT? Their labels are already perfectly suited to label Northings and Eastings without the overhead of needing to add any invisble alignments to accomplish the task.Or just use a General Note, no point or alignment needed. I don't recall which version added this functionality, but I know it's in 2012.
mjfarrell
2012-03-29, 02:49 AM
Thanks for the reminder of that being in 2012, Jeff_M!
Jeff_M
2012-03-29, 02:13 PM
Sure thing, Michael. I've since done a bit of checking, and it looks like they added the Northing/Easting properties to the General Note Label Styles in C3D2010.
mjfarrell
2012-03-29, 04:02 PM
Sure thing, Michael. I've since done a bit of checking, and it looks like they added the Northing/Easting properties to the General Note Label Styles in C3D2010.

Good to know when it arrived...

Bad to know I missed it for so long.

Interestingly enough I also larned something else about C3D today...I feature I though was a little buggy
that actually works quite well. Now that I know I was using it wrong before. (HINT: It has to do with pipes)