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Labeling surfaces

Labeling surfaces - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Labeling surfaces

- [Instructor] Now that we've created our surface, it's well defined, let's go ahead and add some labels to our surface. To do that open up our surface labeling exercise file, choosing the Open and Quick Access Toolbar, 04_05_SurfaceLabeling drawing, and within this drawing we have our surface that we've been working on. Now to add labels the best thing to do is just pick on the surface you want to label, and the contextual ribbon will open up, and we're going to choose Add Labels. Now from this dropdown of Add Labels you see all the different types of labels you can add. And if we choose anyone of these options here, it is simply going to immediately apply the default label based upon our feature settings. Well, since we're not sure what they are, we're going to choose Add Surface Labels, and it will open up this window that stays open and allows us to kind of see the styles as we go. Here's the different label types, again, that are available for the surface, and we're going to add…

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