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Table Of Contents
Overview of Annotating Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089
Adding Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091
Adding Labels to Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091
Allowing Labels to Obscure Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1096
Displaying Fixed Labels at Point Locations . . . . . . . . . . . 1098
Annotating Drawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100
Overview of Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100
Attaching Annotation to Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103
Refreshing Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105
Updating Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106
Deleting Annotation from Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108
Working with Text Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109
Creating Text Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109
Styling a Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111
Adding Text to a Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113
Editing an Instance on a Text Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115
Adding a Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116
Annotating with AutoCAD Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119
Chapter 8
Analyzing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121
Overview of Analyzing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121
Getting Information About Features and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 1124
Getting Information about Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125
Getting Information About Drawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . 1143
Measuring and Tracking Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147
Overview of Measuring and Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148
Tracking Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149
Measuring Geodetic Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152
Measuring Coordinate Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153
Creating Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1162
Overview of Creating Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163
Theming Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165
Theming Drawing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
Analyzing Raster-Based Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186
Overview of Analyzing Raster-Based Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 1187
Adding and Modifying Contour Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189
Draping Map Data Over 3D Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192
Viewing Surfaces in 3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194
Using Hillshading and Vertical Exaggeration . . . . . . . . . . 1199
Theming Surfaces to Analyze Height, Slope, and Aspect . . . . 1202
Changing Colors in a Themed Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204
Finding and Selecting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206
Finding and Selecting Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206
Finding and Querying Drawing Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1218
Analyzing Feature Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301
Overview of Analyzing Feature Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302
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