Long time Civil 3D user running Carlson top of autocad now and am running into a thing with the drawing scale that's mildly annoying.
In Civil 3D when I would label a line in model space the label would come in at whatever scale the model space was set at. In Carlson however it seems I need to set the horizontal scale of model space in the settings in the beginning and then every line label comes in at that scale. This is annoying when it's early on in the draft and I don't know what scale is going to make all of my record linework labels readable. What's worse is anytime I change the scale of model space to something that is readable and then label another line... it switches my entire model space scale (linetype, symbol, label scale, everything...) back to the scale in the settings.
Anyway, long of the short is does anyone know of a way to make line labels come into model space at whatever scale model space is currently set at?
I believe you are looking for "Annotative Text".
I don't use it, I usually know what scale I need for my survey at the start.
If I remember correctly, Carlson does have some videos on using annotative text.
Carlson has another place to set your drawing scale besides the annotation scale. Go to Drawing Setup under the Setup tab and set your horizontal scale there. You may have to manually set your LTscale back to 1, depending on your settings. I have also had issues where the PSLTSCALE variable was not recognized. Generally I can toggle the variable and that fixes it.
Carlson has another place to set your drawing scale besides the annotation scale. Go to Drawing Setup under the Setup tab and set your horizontal scale there.
This is exactly the thing that's causing me problems. I would like to leave the box in this window blank and have the annotation scale in model space rule the drawing.
Any idea if there's a way to make that happen in this Carlson/autocad combo?
You can set your bearing distance labels and point labels to be annotative (which is what I did before moving to Civil 3D), but that comes with its own quirks. If I remember correctly, Carlson will still scale your labels based upon that drawing setup scale.
You can set your bearing distance labels and point labels to be annotative (which is what I did before moving to Civil 3D), but that comes with its own quirks. If I remember correctly, Carlson will still scale your labels based upon that drawing setup scale.
Yes! That is the problem I described in my first post! 😆
Oh well, sounds like this is just the way it is with Carlson.