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

Creating Segment Labels

So far, you have seen label groups that label the entire alignment at once and station/offset labels that are typically used to label something other than the alignment. What about the individual parts of the alignment? How do you tell reviewers and contractors how to recreate those alignments in the field? The answer is segment labels. Segment labels allow you to label things such as bearings and distances for tangents and curve data for curves. By providing this information as text in the drawing, you give viewers of the drawing the information they need to stake out the alignment in the field. You are also sharing information about the geometric “performance” of the alignment that might answer questions such as these: ...