Creating Label Sets

You can create annotations on bridge layout or on any result generated with the Component-based Design command and, organize them under label sets, in 3D models.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Label Sets

Display Set Name

You can decide to display or not the labels above the alignment. Depending on the capture component specification or bridge context you can also show the name of the component specification set and the pattern distribution, or the bridge set name and its stationing.

  1. From the Review section of the action bar, click Label Set .
  2. Select the element to annotate.

    It can be either a bridge set or a specification set. If you select the bridge alignment, the bridge layout is displayed.

    If you select a specification set which is under a bridge set, the bridge set (not the specification set) will be selected as the input of the label set.

    If the result annotation is aggregated under a bridge set or a specification set which is a private set, you cannot delete it with the Delete command. You must launch the Bridge Design Assistant or Capture Component Specification command to delete it, as explained below. During edition, you cannot change it, and the selector is disabled.

  3. To define the label name that will appear in the 3D area, select the Display set name option.
  4. Select the Name option to display the input set name.
    The name appears above and in the middle of the curve that is used for the pattern.
  5. Select the Pattern/Span Distribution option, for example: 4x20m.

The Label Set feature is aggregated under the Destination Set in the tree. The Label Set feature aggregates a list of base annotations. For example, Bridge Set.3 contains Bridge Layout Set.3, and Bridge Annotation that contains Support Annotation.1, Support Annotation.2, Support Annotation.3, etc. The base annotations are used to represent annotations on each specification feature or bridge support. Only one Label Set feature can be aggregated under a bridge set or a specification set.

To edit a Label Set feature, double-click it. The Label Set dialog box opens. You can also change its graphical properties.

Display Distances Between Specifications or Supports

You can display distances between axis systems or supports in addition to labels.

  1. Select the Display Distances Between Supports option.

    The following parameters automatically appear in the dialog box and in the 3D area:

    • Vertical Offset: to display a span distance from the curve, or in the bridge context between the lowest point of the support and the ground. If you choose 0m, the distance values are displayed at the extremity of the supports. If the support preview has a rectangular shape, you cannot generate the distances on the geometry.
    • Separator Height: the height of the segment separator between the numerical values.

  2. Click anywhere to display the annotation between the supports on the bridge layout.

Clear the option to deactivate the distance display if needed.

Display Support Annotations

You can add annotations on each specification feature or bridge support. Font and text options for these annotations are the same as for base annotations of buildings.

  1. To compute the annotation text, select Display annotations.

    The default Name format is %c, with its First Number set to 0. You can see labels starting from 0, followed by 1, 2, 3, …

  2. To indicate how the support annotations are numbered, click the button next to the First Number box and select either of the commands:
    • Per Pier: all support annotations are numbered from its first number sequentially without taking into account its type.
    • Default: all the supports of the same type are numbered from its first number. The first number applies to all the first encountered new types.
  3. Select the number of steps between the labels.
  4. When satisfied with the selected options, click anywhere to refresh the annotation visualization.
    Note: You can customize the annotations thanks to formulas, by editing the names, formats, numerical values and steps.

    Here are two examples showing labels, element name and distances applied differently on a component set and a bridge set:



Delete or Modify of the Customized Naming and Numbering from Other Commands

In the Capture Component Specification and Bridge Design Assistant commands, you can create/delete/edit/hide the annotation features.

  1. Double-click the result of the Capture Component Specification or Bridge Design Assistant command in the tree.
    The corresponding dialog box dialog box is displayed.
  2. Click Show Preferences .

    In the component specification dialog box, the Create/Delete annotation option is cleared by default.

    In the bridge dialog box, the Create/Delete annotation option is selected by default. Other commands are available next to the option:

    • to edit the existing annotation. the Label Set panel opens.
    • to hide it.

  3. Select the Create/Delete annotation option.
    The Label Set panel is displayed.
  4. Modify the annotation settings if necessary and click OK.
    The label sets are created on the component specification set.

Show/Hide Annotations

You can hide/show the labels on the bridge layout or models.

  1. Select the component containing the Label Set feature.
  2. From the View section of the action bar, click Show/Hide 3D Tags and Annotations .
  3. To hide the labels, click .