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Apply labels to alignments

Apply labels to alignments - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Apply labels to alignments

- [Instructor] Now that we've seen how to control alignments with styles, let's begin looking at annotating our alignments with labels. To get started, I'll click on the Jordan court alignment and then up on the ribbon I'll click add labels and then add edit station labels. This is quite a different approach from the way that we've labeled objects so far. With alignments you can label the whole alignment at once, and then as the alignment changes as it lengthens or shortens or as you change the tangents or curves as you make edits to it the labels are going to update as they need to. Now, there are lots of ways that you can label an alignment and the labels are applied incrementally or at geometry points, so they're applied automatically. So what we do is we build up the labels by adding them kind of to a list, and then that list of labels is applied to the alignment. So for example to get started, we'll choose the…

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