Hello everyone my name is Seth Hall, and just like Almas I will be sharing with you from time to time as a guest here on Being Civil. Special thanks to Brian for allowing me to participate.
Being a Support Specialist we occasionally receive questions that end in “is this possible in Civil 3D?” Now these can get your brain going a little bit, especially if you personally have never attempted what they are asking. In this case I was asked if you were able to label a Surface with cuts and fills and have each appear as a different color. This of course is entirely possible in Civil 3D by creating a new Spot Elevation Label Style.
Now before you go ahead and try and start labeling your cuts and fills, you want to make sure you have created a new surface using either TIN or GRID volume surface and setting the appropriate Base and Comparison Surfaces. After you have your volume surface created you can move on to creating a style that will label your cuts and fills for you.
Open your Add Labels dialog box, select your feature, in this case we are labeling Surfaces. As for label type we are going to select Spot Elevations on Grid.
Now on to the Spot Elevation Label Style, this is where we are going to make a new style that will perform the task of labeling the cuts and fills. Label your new style something appropriate such as CUT_FILL and move on to the Layout tab where we will add the Components to the style that will label our surface.
We will start with adding the Text Component for your cut label. Rename your new component to “CUT” and click the ellipsis under Text > Contents. This will bring up your Text Component Editor. For a cut label you will want to select all the options desired, and make sure the Sign Modifier is set to sign negative ‘-‘. After you have made your selections click the blue arrow then OK. You will repeat this process adding a Component for FILL, only this time you will want to select hide negative value for the Sign Modifier.
Last but not least you will need to assign a color to each component you created, for this example I set my fills to green and my cuts to red. Click OK and you are ready to label your surface, all you need to do now is add them to your surface.
About me: I have been working at Autodesk as a Support Specialist for the last 6 months, prior to that I worked for a small land surveying firm here in New Hampshire for the past 6 years. I went to school at the University of New Hampshire Thompson School of Applied Science, studying in their Land Survey program. I live in Manchester, NH with my beautiful wife, 3 kids, 2 steps-kids, and our boxer, Murphy. As you can guess I rarely have free time, but when I do I enjoy the North Country of New Hampshire, throwing rocks in water, spending time with family, and vinyl records (while most everything in my life is digital, I prefer my music analog :) ).
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