AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential

Creating Station/Offset Labels

As mentioned earlier, an alignment is often used as a baseline, enabling other features to express their locations in relation to that baseline. This is typically done with station offset notations, and of course, Civil 3D provides you with labels to do just that. This type of label is referred to as a station/offset label.

Unlike the label groups you learned about earlier, station/offset labels stand alone and must be created one by one. They are capable of reporting the station and offset of a point you select as well as the alignment name, coordinates of the point, and other types of information.

You can create station/offset labels as either fixed or floating labels. If they are fixed, then they hold their position ...