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Explore the relationship between objects and labels

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Explore the relationship between objects and labels

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- [narrator] Another relationship we can explore is the one between objects and labels. Let's take a look. You'll notice up here in the top-right viewport that I've got an elevation labeled here. It's a spot elevation and it says currently 190.02. This label, if I were to click on it and go to properties, you'll see that it references a surface called EG+FG. Now, I haven't fully built out EG+FG yet. What I need to do is go into my EG+FG surface. And if I look here under definition and edits, you'll see that so far, it has the existing ground surface in it, but I need to add the finished ground as well. So I'll go ahead and do that. And when I click, okay, watch what happens to the label. You can see that the contours have changed because I made a change to the surface called EG+FG. But hopefully you also notice that the elevation indicated by the spot elevation label has also changed. So that's an illustration of the dynamic…

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