Profile Labels in Xrefs

[WScottAllenPE]

Product: Civil 3D 2010

Setup: One "Profile.dwg" with profile and profile view.
One "Plan and Profile.dwg" with Xref to the "Profile.dwg"

In my plan and profile drawings, I'm trying to use my C3D label styles to label everything for me. For the most part, it's OK. But, I don't seem to see options for adding profile labels under "ADDLABELS". I can label station and elevations of ditches, etc in the profile view, and can work around some issues by drawing a line and using general line labels to label tangent grades.

But how can I use my labels for PVI curve lengths, etc?

Thanks Scott

[brian.hailey933139]

In my opinion, you are going down a slippery slope. Instead of xrefing everything into your PnP sheets, data reference it instead. I always emphasize to my students that you want to minimize the data in each and every drawing. Xref in your AutoCAD linework (and perhaps your surfaces), data reference in your alignment and profile (and any other C3D data you need to display in the profile such as pipe networks) and create the profile view directly in the PnP drawing.

[WScottAllenPE]

Brian,

Thanks for the comments. I do use data shortcuts to share surfaces, alignments, profile, pipes data to create each sequential task up to cross sections.

In the past, I've always just combined all this data into a single base drawing (surface, profile, sections if they are small enough), from which all my sheets are Xrefed. The reason why is that my client often wants to have several sheets that are nearly identical, but are different enough to warrant separate sheets. So, I might have a plan and profile sheet, and a bridge layout sheet, and a ditch profile sheet, and a guardrail layout sheet, all of which use the same profile. (Redundant, yes.) In addition, our company policy is to limit the plan and profiles to one or two layouts per drawing so multiple people can work on a project simultaneously. So, instead of creating profile views multiple times (one in each drawing), I create it once and Xref it in.

I do keep each component in separate drawings to try to minimize size, but I quickly grew tired of repeatedly D-reffing and X-reffing info into a large number of sheets. What is you concern about using Xrefs from a single base, as opposed to D-reffing into each sheet?

Also, are you saying there is no solution to my problem? (I've found that I keep asking questions for issues that are beyond the software's capabilities. I always push things to their limits.)

Thanks for your advice.

Scott

[sinc]

It isn't that there's no solution to your problem...

It's just that certain things in Civil 3D require different workflows than you may be used to. There are times when you need to rethink your approach. Once you do, the new approach tends to work better than the old one. Well, most of the time, anyway... ;)

[Glenn Pope]

I stopped using data shortcut in my sheet files after they added the ability to label through x-refes. The performance has been better, plus like you stated if you have a lot of sheets that are nearly identical it saves a lot of work.

To answer your question, the command is AeccEditProfileLabels.

On the ribbon its located under the Annotate tab, Labels & Tables pane, Add Labels dropdown, Add/Edit Profile Labels.