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    Default labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    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.

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    Northings and Easting can be added to most alignment label styles.
    And then they will be available within your alignment label set(s)

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    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)

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    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.

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    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?

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    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.

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    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.

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    Quote Originally Posted by jpaulsen View Post
    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.

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    Quote Originally Posted by mjfarrell View Post
    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.

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    Default Re: labeling northing & easting on an alignment

    Thanks for the reminder of that being in 2012, Jeff_M!

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