Alignment Labels

Menu:	Via Label Plan
Ribbon:	Via Label Plan

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Introduction

Alignment Labels will produce a variety of intelligent labels along an alignment, usually to document distance along the alignment and optionally the alignment geometry.  This type of label requires the user to do two things:

1. Establish what alignment geometry should be labelled (eg: start, end, tangent-curve, curve-spiral, etc) and what Label Style should apply for each case.  The styles created can be used for other projects and stored within the global settings for inclusion in new projects. Label Styles are managed via the Label Styles command.

2. Select a Named Section List with the chainages to use - in the Section List each chainage included comes from a source (such as the start/end of alignment, tangent-curve, curve-spiral, etc).  The relevant sources of chainages are then used to label along the alignment

The marker of an alignment label cannot be moved, except by editing the alignment geometry. 

Grip Editing
Marker Grip	Moving the marker grip will reposition the entire label and update the Label content if referencing an alignment (and/or surface). Use the Sychronise Labels command to update label contents where necessary.
Text Grips	Moving the text grips will reposition the Label text only.
Line Grips	Users can grip edit any lines added to the Label Style.  After any grip edit of the line, the direction is set (does not change angle when moved around).  Only the Reset Labels option can reset this back to being dynamic to the alignment direction.

Updating Labels

Labels values will update after moving the alingment and clicking on the Synchronise button.

Details

These are created via the Label Plan command.  If new, users will need to firstly name the group.  The followng form displays:

 

 

Plot  Name	Name of the currently selected label set (not editable).
Labels Tab	Default Settings These default Label Styles apply to the different vertical geometry points for all Strings set to plot labels, unless Label Styles are specifically assigned to the individual strings.   Geometry List Pick list of geometry and label styles to apply.    Edit Geometry List Item Select the alignment geometry to label Label Style Select the label style to apply OK Apply and exit Cancel Exit without applying changes   Add Create a new geometry list   Edit Chainage Group Edit the Named Section List (Section Manager) for the currently selected string in String Plot Settings.   Label Style Editor Edit Label Styles String Plot Settings Displays a list of all Strings.  Users can tick on to label select strings, as well as set particular label styles to apply to different vertical geometry, overriding the defaults.   Select  Tick on to include that Alignment in the labelling output   Alignment Name List of alignments   Type Type of alignment   Geometry List Pick geometry list   Named Section List Pick the seciton list to apply.   Override Override options On/Off Selection by Object Type Provides on/off toggle of the Select column, based on the type of String   Pick List  Pick list of the alignment typeS     Turn on alignments of type as set in the pick list     Turn off alignments of type as set in the pick list Sorts the String Plot Settings list using the column of the cell selected in the list. Select to reset all grip edited labels to default positions, as well as restoring any labels deleted from the label group. Click to add all Labels in the drawing as per the Plot Settings Zoom Alignment Zooms to the selected string in the list.
Scaling Tab	This tab manages the scaling of the labels within the drawing
	Scale Option Pick the following options     Always use drawing scale The label sizes are defined by the user annotation scale set in the drawing (CANNOSCALE)     Keep first drawing scale The drawing scale at the time of the Labels creation will be permanently stored & used regardless of future drawing scale changes.      User scale User can define the drawing scale of the labels using the box below   Scale (1:x) Select a list scale from the list or type a custom scale
Option	List each option indenting 2 spaces.
OK	Apply and exit.
Cancel	Exit the form without deleting any data.

Add any notes about the output controls and any special conditions.