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

Applying Section View Bands

You may need to display additional information about the sections to accompany what is conveyed by the section view. Bands can be a useful tool for this purpose, enabling you to display information both graphically and textually. There are two types of section view bands, as described here:

Section data bands You use this type of band for labeling offset and elevation data at regular increments along the profile view.

Section segment bands You use this type of band to label length and slope information about the individual segments. Since the individual labels are created segment by segment, they are not evenly spaced across the band like you see in a section data band. Weeding can be applied to improve situations ...