Have you ever wanted to label the bearing/distance between two points? You can by utilizing a Dynamic Block.
To get this capability I started by utilizing a dynamic block I found in the Dynamic Blocks Discussion Group. I’m not quite sure how to recreate it, but it served its purpose on creating a starting point. I then deleted all of the stuff I didn’t need in the block in the block editor. I then dragged the ends of line to the grip points.
Next I added a bearing and distance label to the line while in block editor. In order to get the line not to show I created a visibility state and then made the visibility state to not show the line or the visibility grip.
Now after inserting the drawing you can move the grips to the points. I then realized the block was at the wrong scale. In order to fix that I found the BMAKE command which allows you to change the units of the block by redefining it.
You can check out the block by downloading this drawing: http://style.civil3dreminders.com/LabelTwoPoints.dwg
3 comments:
That's a great idea. I've cleaned it up a little bit using the new construction geometry in 2010 so there are no visibility states and getting rid of some extra actions.
http://screencast.com/t/MTZjOTFhMG
Let me know what you think.
That's a lot cleaner than my block. Thanks Brian.
Civil 3D is a joke....
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