Datasheet

WINDOWS ON THE MODEL

Figure 1.10

General Multipur-

pose Styles and some

Marker Styles

Label Styles

The Label Styles collection was a new addition with the 2007 release of the prod-

uct and a much-requested change at that. These labels allow Civil 3D users to place general text

notes or label single entities outside the parcel network while still taking advantage of the Civil

3D flexibility and scaling properties. With the various Label Styles shown in Figure 1.11, you can

get some idea of the usage.

Since building label styles is a critical part of producing plans with Civil 3D, we will look at how

to build a new basic label and some of the common components that appear in every label style

throughout the product in a later section of this chapter.

Commands

Every branch in the Settings tree contains a

Commands

folder. Expanding this

folder as shown in Figure 1.12, you will find the long, unspaced commands that refer to the par-

ent object.

Survey

The Survey palette is displayed optionally and controls the use of the survey, equipment, and fig-

ure prefix databases. Survey is an essential part of land development projects, but because of the

complex nature of this tab, we will devote a whole chapter to it. See Chapter 3 for a full exploration

of the Survey palette.

Figure 1.11

Line styles

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