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Creating Labels and Grids
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Creating Labels and Grids
You can annotate sheets by using label and grid styles. These styles include text
labels, block labels for creating symbols on sheets, distance labels for labeling
dimensions, and grid styles for placing grids on sheets.
To create and edit label and grid styles, use the commands in the Frame
Components section of the Sheet Styles submenu.
Several label styles are provided with Sheet Manager that you can use as is. To
create customized label styles, you can copy the default styles and modify them,
or you can create new styles from scratch.
To make the labels and grids appear on a generated sheet, you must attach the
label or grid style to a frame on a sheet style, and then you must use that sheet
style to generate a sheet series. The labels or grids are then created automatically
for the specific design elements in your drawing.
For example, to create the station labels over the plan view in this
illustration, you would:
1 Define a text label style that labels the stations of an alignment.
2 Attach this label style to the frame that surrounds the plan
viewport on the sheet style (the plan/view frame).
3 Save the sheet style.
4 Use the sheet style to generate the sheet series.
The grid shown in the preceding illustration was created by using a grid style.
To achieve this result, a grid style was set up to place a grid line every 1
horizontally and vertically, and then the style was attached to the profile/view
frame on the sheet style.
The label and grid styles in Sheet Manager can automate what could be time-
consuming. After you set up the sheet style with the frames and label and grid
styles, you can use the sheet style repeatedly, not only for the current project,
but for any future project as well. Label and grid styles can also be shared by
multiple people on a network. This is because both the sheet style and the label
and grid styles are stored in an external database. If you make revisions to the
project data, or if you make revisions to a sheet style or to a label or grid style,
you can immediately generate new sheets with the updated data.
Creating a Text Label
To label sheets, you can use Text Labels. A text label is used to label specific
design information on the plan, profile, or section sheets. This includes, but is
not limited to, stations, elevations, offsets, lengths, angles, and slopes.
When you format a text label, you must specify what design information you
want it to label, as well as the text style, text size, justification, angle, and layer
that the information is placed on. To specify what the Text Label labels, you
specify a Code Category for the label. This can be something like Alignment if
you are creating a label for alignments. You also need to specify a Code for the
label. A Code is a subset of the Code Category. For example, when you choose