Applying Segment Label Styles

You can use parcel segment label styles to change the appearance, content, and behavior of the segment labels. For example, when labeling an existing property line, you could assign a different style that displays the bearing and distance text slanted—a common practice for differentiating text that refers to existing features. In another part of the drawing, you might assign a different style to a curve label so that the appropriate combination of dimensions is shown according to local requirements.

To apply different segment label styles to segment labels in your drawing, complete the following steps:

The Exercise File can be downloaded at the end of the article  

1. Open the drawing named Applying Parcel Segment Label Styles.dwg located in the Chapter 13 class data folder.
2. Zoom in to the bearing and distance labels along the west side of the project. Currently, these labels are all shown in a proposed style with both bearing and distance. This side of the project is actually a mixture of existing and proposed geometry, and the display of the same bearing multiple times is redundant.

3. Click the label for the west side of the John Smith property, and then click Label Properties on the ribbon.
4. In the Properties window, change Line Label Style to (Span) Bearing And Distance With Crows Feet [Existing]. The color and text style of the label are changed, and the label now reflects the full length of the line.

   Tips:Label styles can be set up to span across the outside of multiple end-to-end segments and display the overall length. Crow’s feet are the curved tick marks at either end of the line that indicate the extents of the distance that is being labeled.


5. On the Annotate tab of the ribbon, click Add Labels.
6. For In the Add Labels dialog box, do the following:
   1. For Feature, select Parcel.
   2. For Label Type, select Single Segment.
   3. For Line Label Style, select Distance [Existing].
   4. Click Add.
7. Click the west side of the John Smith property. A new label is created that reflects the distance associated with just the John Smith property, not the overall distance.
8. Close the Add Labels dialog box. Pan to the south to view the labels for lots 36, 37, 60, and 59.

9. Click these four labels, and then click Label Properties on the ribbon.
10. In the Properties window, change Line Label Style to Distance. The text of each label changes to include only the inside distance of the associated parcel. The bearing for the individual segments can be omitted because the bearing on the opposite side of the line provides that information.

Editing Parcel Segment Labels

• Applying Segment Label Styles
• Editing Parcel Segment Labels Graphically

Download Exercise File :

• Editing Parcel Segment Labels - Metric     --- ( 1.29 MB )
• Editing Parcel Segment Labels - Imperial  --- ( 1.99 MB )