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Carlson Point Labels
The biggest weakness of Carlson Survey as I see it is the lack of customization in point labels. That’s the best part of Civil3D, and I wish Carlson worked the same way. However, it doesn’t.
My goal would be to have a point node and then to the right of the node, in a left-justified stack, would be (top to bottom) Point #, Code, Notes. The J-Filed software allows to export a CSV file in the format #,N,E,Z,Desc,Notes. Carlson seems to be OK with bringing in this format, but I end up with disastrous looking labels like the attached pic, there’s also a picture of the F2F code for found monument “FD”.
I’m never concerned with elevations, so I don’t need to see that part of the label, and instead of “Found monument” I don’t know why it won’t just use “FD”. Also, is there a way to get the note text (2″ PIPE) in the example in the same font/alignment instead of obliviously pasted over everything else? Maybe I’m approaching this all wrong, but I just want the label to be:
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FD
2″ PIPEThanks!
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