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Create profile labels - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Create profile labels

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- [Instructor] In the previous video, you learned about how labels work for profiles and profile views. Now, in this video, let's create those labels. I'll start with this layout profile and to get started, I'll click the profile and then click Edit Profile Labels on the ribbon. Let's start with some simple tangent labels that show the grade. I'll choose the option called Lines, choose the style that I want to use, and click Add. I do want to include these labels the entire length of the profile from the very beginning to the very end, and that's what these check boxes mean. For my Dimension Anchor option, I want to do distance above, so I'm not tying it to the graph, to the profile view. I'm tying it to the actual object I'm labeling, which is the profile. So distance above, and 1.5 sounds like a good value to use. Let's click OK and see what we get. And we'll find that for each tangent, there's a percent slope label.…

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