Resources » How-Tos » Civil 3D – Annotations:  Mind the Gap

Civil 3D – Annotations:  Mind the Gap

Leo Lavayen

During a recent custom Civil 3D class, a client wanted to adjust their labels styles to reduce the gap in between lines of text (as seen below) but was struggling in accomplishing the needed look.

Standard vs Reduced gap:

Gap01

At first we searched for a Line Spacing feature like Multiline Text (MTEXT) has, but there wasn’t anything exactly like that.

Gap02

We then considered the Label Style dialog box Gap value (Layout tab > Border collection > Gap) to see if it could work.  However, we found this would only work if there were individual lines of component text.  If there is only one (1) component with embedded lines of text in the body, reducing the value, it will NOT change line to line spacing.

Gap03

Work must be done to separate each line of text into its own Component and reduce or zero out the Gap field for each.

Gap04

If appropriately configured the label gap will be reduced when dragged.

Gap05

 

About the Author

Leo Lavayen

Civil Applications Expert<br><br>As an Applications Expert, Leo is responsible for supporting, training and implementation of software for survey and civil engineering professionals. He has more than 19 years of experience helping large and small, public and private clients in the eastern United States.

More Content by Leo Lavayen
Previous Video
Utilities for Civil 3D: Create Offset Points
Utilities for Civil 3D: Create Offset Points

See how to use the IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D to automatically create offset points in Civil 3D.

Next Video
Top 3 Unforgivable Civil 3D Mistakes
Top 3 Unforgivable Civil 3D Mistakes

Are you making these common Civil 3D mistakes?

Need tech support? Let us help!

Learn More
Return to Resources