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

Annotating Pipe Networks in Profile View

For most pipe system designs, you will also need to provide labels in profile view because this view is just as important as the plan view for illustrating the design and providing important textual and numerical information about it. Often, you will duplicate the information in plan view, enabling the contractor or the reviewer of the drawing to have the information he or she needs without having to flip back and forth between drawings.

You will not need to rename the pipes and structures for the profile view if you have already done so in plan view. This is because the plan and profile versions of the pipe network are the same objects viewed from different perspectives. In other words, renaming in plan ...