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Text Label Styles
When you customize sheet style annotation, you work mainly with text label
styles. A text label style controls what is labeled on each sheet in a series, as
well as how the label is positioned on the sheet.
When you are create and edit text label styles, you will come across the
following terminology.
Code Category The category of data to label. For example, Alignment,
Profile, and Cross Section are different code categories.
You can think of code categories as the general type of
entity to label.
Code The specific part of the entity to label. For example,
codes can include tangent length, curve radius,
stations, and many others.
To get started with text label styles, try examining and using the label styles
and sheet styles provided with the program to see how the label styles are set
up and attached to frames. For more information about frames, see the fol-
lowing section.
Additional styles or frame components that you can set up include Block,
Distance, and Grid styles. Block labels insert symbols, distance labels insert
dimension labels, and grid styles insert grids onto generated sheets.
Frames
To use label styles you must attach them to the frames on the sheet styles.
Typically you attach labels to two different types of frames: label frames and
view frames. Label frames are frames positioned adjacent to viewports on the
sheet. View frames are frames that are co-linear with the viewports on the
sheet. You attach labels to view frames when you want to create labels on the
model space entities, such as when you want to create alignment station
labels.