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Command line:  GT_IDXYZ



Label picked point with X, Y, Z, XY or XYZ coordinate formats. Additionally, the prefixes X=, Y=, Z= (for engineering drawings) or E=, N=  , H= (for geographic coordinates annotations) can be specified in front of the numbers.

Format

X: Check this option to label the X coordinate of the picked point. For geographic data, this is also the longitude or Easting value of the picked point.

Y: Check this option to label the Y coordinate of the picked point. For geographic data, this is also the latitude or Northing value of the picked point.

Z: Check this option to label the Z coordinate (height) of the picked point.

XY: Check this option to label the X and  Y coordinates of the picked point. For geographic data, this is the longitude-latitude or Easting-Northing value of the picked point.

XYZ: Check this option to label the X, Y and Z coordinates of the picked point. For geographic data, this is the longitude-latitude-Height or Easting-Northing-Height value of the picked point.

Coordinate Annotation:
This option creates two text objects showing the X coordinate (Eastings) and Y coordinate (Northings) at right angles to each other with a user-specified gap between the picked point and the start of the annotation text. The two text objects can be prefixed with E=,N= or X=,Y= or M=,P=.
The last prefix option M=,P= is a new option added in this update and is Portuguese notation for Easting and Northing.
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Running Number: Check this option to label a running sequence of integer numbers on each picked point.

Starting Station Number: Enter the starting station number of use during annotation.

Prefix Settings

Prefix with X=,Y=,Z=: Checking this option allows a prefix of the kind X=, Y= or Z= to be entered in front of the coordinate value. Use this setting for non-geographic drawings.

Prefix with E=,N=,H=: Checking this option allows a prefix of the kind E=, N= or H= to be entered in front of the coordinate value.

Prefix with M=,P=,H=: Checking this option allows a prefix of the kind M=, P=, H= to be entered in front of the coordinate value. This is the Portuguese notation for Easting and Northing.

No prefix (coordinates only): Checking this option will not produce any prefixes before the coordinate values.

Gap distance (in X and Y directions):
Specifies gap between the X and Y direction label.

Label Text Height:
Specifies the label text height.

Rotation Angle:
Specifies the rotation angle for text

See Also: GT_VXLABEL

GT_IDXYZ Tutorial





Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs Tools Stützpunkte beschriften
Command line: GT_VXLABEL



This command places text labels along Polylinie, line, 3dfaces and spline vertices. The following types of labels can be created for each vertex.

Annotate Using:

X co-ordinate value:
The X co-ordinate of each vertex is written as a text label next to each vertex.

Y co-ordinate value:
The Y co-ordinate of each vertex is written as a text label next to each vertex.

Elevations (Z):
The elevation of each vertex is written as a text next to each vertex.

XY co-ordinate value:
The x and y co-ordinates of each vertex is written as a text label next to each vertex.

XYZ co-ordinate value:

The x, y and  z co-ordinates of each vertex is written as a text label next to each vertex.

Running Number:
The vertex count starting from the beginning is written (this initial count can be set by the user)

Cumulative Distances from start:
The cumulative slope distance from the first vertex is computed and written next to each vertex (the initial starting distance can be set by the user).

Prefix Options:

Prefix with X=, Y=, Z= Choosing this option places the prefixes, X=, Y=, Z= before each coordinate value
Prefix with E=, N=, H= Choosing this option places the prefixes, E=, N=, H= before each coordinate value
No prefix (co-cordinates only) No prefixes are written, only co-ordinates values are written
Prefix with M=, P=, H= Choosing this option places the prefixes, M=, P=, H= before each coordinate value. This  is Portuguese notation for Easting and Northing.


Label first and last points only:
Places labels on the first and last points of Polylinies only. Useful if the Polylinie is too dense and you do not want lables at every point.

Reset vertex numbering every line/Polylinie:
Starts vertex numbering from the specified start value every Polylinie or line. If this option is not checked, vertex numbering continues incrementing across each Polylinie.

Apply elevation check before labeling.
Checking this box makes a check for the elevation between specified range and labels only those vertices which fall between the range

From [elevation]
If Apply elevation check before labeling is chosen then the From [elevation] box allows you to enter the start elevation for range check.

To [elevation]
If Apply elevation check before labeling is chosen then the To [elevation] box allows you to enter the end elevation for range check

Starting Station Number:
If Running Number is chosen as the label option above, then this option allows the first station number to be set. You may want to set this to a number higher than 1 if this Polylinie is being labeled in succession to another Polylinie which was preceding it.

Starting Station Distance:
If Cumulative Distance from start is chosen as the label option above, then this option allows the first station distance to be set. You may want to set this to a number higher than 0.0 if this Polylinie is being labeled in succession to another Polylinie which was preceding it.

Label Text Height:
Specifies the label text height.

Rotation Angle:
Specifies the rotation angle for text. 

Horizontal Text Offset from vertex:
Specifies the offset distance in the horizontal (X) direction in AutoCAD units from the vertex position at which you want the label to appear.

Vertical Text Offset from vertex:
Specifies the offset distance in the vertical (Y) direction in AutoCAD units from the vertex position at which you want the label to appear.

Label-name: Displays the selected layer name.
Select:
Pops-up the Select Label Layer dialog box for choosing the required layer.

See also: GT_SEGLABEL

GT_VXLABEL Tutorial

See Example : GT_VxLabel

 

 

 

Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs Tools Polylinien mit Objekt- oder Datenbank- daten beschriften
Command line: GT_PL_DATALBL

The GT_PL_DATALBL command is used to label polylines with either their object data or their database data.

Label using:

Object data: Checking this option causes object data from polylines to be used for the labeling.

Database data:  Checking this option causes database data connected to polylines to be used for the labeling.

Label Mode:

Single: Checking this option allows to select one object at a time.

Multiple:  Checking this option allows to select more then one object and marks the label at the midpoint of the each objects.


Annotation parameters:

Style: This button brings up the annotation style dialog box that determines how the text label annotation is to be placed.

Data Format:  This button brings up the Data Format dialog box that specifies how the label data is to be formatted.

Object Data settings dialog:

Object Table : From this list of available object data tables in the current drawing, select the name of the object table whose data is to be used for labeling.

Available fields : Displays the available fields in the selected object table.

Selected fields : Displays the selected object data fields for labeling.

Add: Adds the currently highlighted field from the list of available fields to the list of selected fields.

Remove : Removes from selection the currently highlighted field from the list of selected fields.

Database settings dialog:

Link Template : From this list of defined link templates in the current drawing, select the name of the link template to be used for labeling.

Available fields : Displays the available fields from the database table.

Selected fields : Displays the selected table fields for labeling.

Add: Adds the currently highlighted field from the list of available fields to the list of selected fields.

Remove : Removes from selection the currently highlighted field from the list of selected fields.

Annotation Style settings dialog:

Layout: Specifies how annotation is to be aligned

Along segment : Annotation is created along the segment

Perpendicular to segment : Annotation is created perpendicular to the segment.


Text Orientation : Specifies how text is oriented.

Always Upright : Text is always upright and readable. If the text orientation happens to be inverted, it is flipped by 180 degs so that it becomes readable.

Always aligned : Text is always aligned according to the segment orientation. It may result in inverted  text sometimes.

Position : Specifies more options to align and position the annotation

Along segment : If the layout option above is "Along segment", then the position further can be Above Segment, Below Segment or On segment.

Perpendicular to segment : If the layout option above is "Perpendicular to segment", then the position further can be Left of segment or Right of segment.

Label closed polylines at object centroid : This option causes closed polylines to be labeled at their geometric centroid and not along the segments.

Annotation Data Format settings dialog:

Delimiter between fields : These set of radio buttons determines which delimiter to use between two or more selected data fields. The following delimiter options are possible:

Space : (space 'blank' character)
Dash : Uses the - character
Comma : Use a comma [ , ] character as delimiter
Comma + Space : Uses a comma and space character as delimiter
None : Do not use any delimiter
Other : Uses other delimiter string as specified in the "Other Options" section of this dialog box.

Other options :

Enter delimiter :
Specify the delimiter string to use if "Other" was chosen as the delimiter in the section above.

Text Style :
Select the text style to use for the annotation from the list of currently defined styles. The current style is offered as default.

Precision for real values :
Specify the decimal precision to use for real value

Text Height :
Specify the text height to use for the annotation

Prefix :
Specify the prefix value to precede the annotation string, if required

Suffix :
Specify the suffix value to follow the annotation string, if required

Use underscore [ _ ] for null data:
Check this option to display all null data with an underscore character. This helps in debugging or to identify fields which have a null or empty field value.

Place labels one below the other (stacked text) :
If objects to be labeled are very close then the text will overlap so to avoid this overlapping check this box for placing the data labels one below the other.

Label Layer : Displays the name of the layer selected.

Select : Pops up the Select Layer dialog box for selecting required layer for labelling the polylines with object data.

Xdata Applications : Select the required extended entity data

Available fields : Populates the fields from selected extended entity data

Selected fields : Populates the fields to be transferred

Add : Clicking on Add button allows to add the Xdata fields to be transferred in the selected fields area

Remove : Clicking on Remove button removes the Xdata fields from the selected fields area

See Also: GT_VXLABEL

 

 


Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs
Tools Polyliniensegmente beschriften 
Command line: GT_SEGLABEL
This command writes the segment distance annotation along each segment of the Polylinie. 




What to label?

Distances:
Choosing this option places the inter-vertex distance to be placed as a label text.

Bearing:
Choosing this option places the surveyors bearing between the two vertices as a label text

Slope:
Choosing this option causes the segment slope annotation to be placed as a label text.

Distances@Slope: Choosing this option writes the 'Distance @ Slope' annotation format.

Distances@Bearing: Choosing this option writes the 'Distance @ Bearing' annotation format.

Distances Format: Clicking this option opens up a distances format dialog box. This allows the distances to be annotated in various ways.

Slope: Displays distances as actual slope distances.

Horizontal: Displays distances as horizontally projected values.

Apply Segment length check before labeling: Checking this box makes a check for the length of the segment and if it falls within the specified range only, they will be labelled.

Bearing Format: Clicking this option opens up a bearing format dialog box. This allows the bearings to be annotated in various ways.

Decimal Degrees: Writes the whole circle bearing in decimal degrees.

Deg/Min/Sec (000-00-00): Writes the bearing in degrees, minutes and seconds in the DDD-MM-SS format.

0d00'00': Writes the whole circle bearings in deg, min and sec format.

0º00'00": degree-minute-second format in the style D°M'S".

N 0d00'00' E: Writes the bearing in surveyors units.

Radians: (0.000r) Writes the whole circle bearing in radians

Gradients: (0.000g) Writes the whole circle bearing in gradients (One gradient=1/400th of a circle) 

Slope label format:

As percentage: Choosing this option causes the grade annotation to be created as a percentage. for example, uphill grades are created as "2% Up" and downhill grades are created as "2% Down".

As decimal: Choosing this option causes the grade annotation to be created as a decimal. For example, uphill grade will be created as "1:50 Up" and downhill grade will be created as "1:50 Down".

Direction: Choosing this option causes the strings "Up" or "Down" to be written along the segment depending on whether the slope is going downwards or upwards.

Degrees: Choosing this option causes the slope values in degrees to be annotated next to the segment.

Precision for grade value: Enter the number of decimal places to be used in the precision for grade values.

Treat Polylinie as elevation value: If this option is checked, the Polylinie is treated as an elevation view (or long/cross section as called in some countries) and the segment slope annotation is done accordingly. In elevation view, the Polylinie is assumed to be drawn in the Z plane.

Annotation Position:

Along Segment: Choosing this option places the annotation text along the direction of the segment.
Perpendicular to segment:  Choosing this option places the annotation text perpendicular to the direction of the segment being annotated.

The next two options further specify the annotation text placement positions by specifying if the annotation is along the segment, above or below it. For Perpendicular to segment option above, The Above, Below and On Segment option in this section will be grayed out.

Above Segment: The annotation will be placed above the segment. For the purpose of direction, the segment is imagined from its start point to end point as a horizontal X-axis, and the the space above it is considered as the Above Space and vice versa.

Below Segment: The annotation will be placed below the segment. For the purpose of direction, the segment is imagined from it start point to end point as a horizontal X-axis, and the the space above it is considered as the Above Space and vice versa.

On Segment: The annotation will be placed on and along the segment.

Left of segment: This option enables the annotation to be placed to the left of the direction of the segment being annotated. This is applicable only when the Perpendicular option is chosen.

Right of segment: This option enables the annotation to be placed to the right of the direction of the segment being annotated. This is applicable only when the Perpendicular option is chosen.

Text Orientation:

Always upright: Flips text by 180 degrees to make them readable without having to turn your head upside down.

Always aligned: Does not perform any text flipping. The rotation angle will be as determined entirely by the segment direction.

ARC label options:

Midpoint of arc: Choosing this option places the label at the midpoint of each arc segment. This may be an arc segment of a Polylinie or an ARC object in AutoCAD.

Midpoint of chord: Choosing this option places the label at the midpoint of each chord length of the arc segment. This may be an arc segment of a Polylinie or an ARC object in AutoCAD.

Label Formatting:

Label Text Height: Specifies the label text height.

GT_SEGLABEL Tutorial

See also: GT_VXLABEL

 

 

Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs
Tools Umriss-Polylinien beschriften
Command line: GT_CONTLABEL
The GT_CONTLABEL command places labels along Polylinies, lines, arcs and splines. You can use it to label just about anything that is a linear object such as label roads, fences, boundaries, traversas, etc. The label can be the elevation of the object or you can specify a user string to be placed as a label.




What to label?

Elevation: Check this option to label the elevation information of the Polylinie

User String: Check this option to enter a user-defined string value that is used to annotate along the Polylinie. 

Curve Length: Check this option to label the length of contour. 

Text Orientation

Always upright: Check this option to create labels that are always face up. This cause any text that is between rotation angles of 90 and 270 degrees AutoCAD-wise to be flipped by 180 degrees.
Always aligned: Check this option to create labels which are always aligned to the direction of the line. This can result in inverted text.

Text spacing

Repeated: Checking this option causes GT_CONTLABEL to place the labels repeatedly along the line at an interval specified in Annotation Distance (see below)

At picked point: Checking this option allows the user to manually pick points on the line where the annotation is desired. This option does not place annotations automatically and does so only at the picked point.

At cutting line locations: Checking this option allows the user to specify two points that define a line and the program will generate annotations at every intersection of the line with the selected contour Polylinie objects.

At mid-point of curve: Checking this option places the label at the mid of the contour.

Other annotation parameters

Text Style: Select the text style to use for the annotation.

Text Height:
Specify the text height to use for annotation.

Annotation Spacing:
Specify the annotation distance between labels when the Repeated Option above is chosen.

Annotation Label String: Specify the text label to be used if the User String option above is chosen.

Label Layer: Displays the selected layer name.

Select: Pops-up the Select Label Layer dialog box for choosing the required layer.

Color: Pops-up the Standard AutoCAD color dialog box for color selection.

Break Contour object around label: If this option is checked, the contour object will be broken around the text label.

Label at midpoint of contour if length is less than spacing: Checking this option causes only one annotation of text at the midpoint of the contour if its length is less than the label spacing.

See Also: GT_CONTCLASS, GT_CHAINAGE, GT_SEGLABEL, GT_VXLABEL

See Example: GT_ContLabel 


 


Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs
Tools Polylinienwinkel beschriften
Command line: GT_ANGLABEL 

The GT_ANGLABEL command is used to quickly label all interior / exterior / left or right angles of a selected polyine.

If an open Polylinie is selected, GT_ANGLABEL offers the options to label either the Left or Right side included angles.

If a closed Polylinie is selected, GT_ANGLABEL offers the options to label either the Interior or Exterior angles.

Label-name: Displays the selected layer name.
Select:
Pops-up the Select Label Layer dialog box for choosing the required layer.

See also: GT_SEGLABEL

 

 

Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs
Tools Linien/Polylinien-Enden mit Symbolen markieren
Command line: GT_ANNOTATEENDS 

The GT_ANNOTATEENDS command is used to annotate a symbol each at the ends of a curve object. A curve object can be either a LINE, POLYLINE, ARC or SPLINE.

Block Names:
Specify the names of the blocks to be placed at the start and end points of the curve. You can specify different scale factors for the start point and the end point. These can be specified in entering the appropriate value in the edit boxes provided for the scale factors adjacent to the  block name picker.

Place symbol at:
Choosing the appropriate option here tells the program if the symbol is to be placed at the start point, end point or both start and end point of the curve.

Align blocks along slopes at each end of curve:
Checking this option causes the block symbols to align along the slope angle at each point of the curve where the block is inserted.

Rotation Angle:
If the above option to align blocks along slope is not checked, then enter the rotation angle to use while placing the blocks at their insertion point.

Blocks Layer: Displays the name of the layer selected.

Select: Pops up the Select layer dialog box for selecting the required layer to annotate the lines / polylines.


See Also: GT_PL_PLACE

GT_ANNOTATEENDS Tutorial



Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
     
Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs
Tools Bitte Punkte annotieren, auf Basis der Layernamen
Command line: GT_ANNOTPOINTS 

The GT_ANNOTPOINTS command is used to annotate a set of points based on a layer lookup table. This command is often useful in several surveying applications where the raw data is first imported into AutoCAD as a set of random point objects placed on several different layers. It is then often required to label these points with meaningful and descriptive text labels with correct text style and height. This command helps to create such a labeled text.

Select: Allows to choose the layer for annotating points.

Points Layer Name: Displays the layer name selected.

Specify a different annotation layer: Checking this box creates the annotation text in a new layer. (The new layer name will be derived from the existing  point layer but with specified suffix)

Suffix for annotation layer: Specify the required suffix for the new layers.

Display Text: Type the required text to annotate points.

Text Style: Select the style to use for displaying the annotated text.

Text Height: Enter the annotation text height.

Text Offset [X]: Enter the distance to offset the text from the point in X direction.

Text Offset [Y]: Enter the distance to offset the text from the point in Y direction.

Current Layer Annotation Settings: Displays the details such as selected layer name, Annotation layer name, Description, Style and Height of the text.

Add/Update: Allows for adding and updating the details into the Current Layer Annotation Settings box.

Remove: Allows to delete the details from the Current Layer Annotation Settings box.

Edit: Allows to edit the details from the Current Layer Annotation Settings box.

Save: Extracts the details from Current Layer Annotation Settings box to a text file.

Restore: Allows to restore the details from the text file.

 

 

Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools  
      Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs
Tools Erzeugen/aktuallisieren Länge annotation 
Command line: GT_LENTEXT

The GT_LENTEXT command creates a length annotation. If you have a segment of a line or polyline, its length can be easily annotated as text using this command. Often, the drawing units will be scaled and different from the real units. To accommodate this, it is possible to scale the length using a length modifier. You can add, subtract, multiple or divide the DWG length by a factor to create the exact annotation desired.

 

 

Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools
      Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs Tools Objekt-Handles ausstellen als Textlabellen
Command line : GT_HNDLABEL
The GT_HNDLABEL command creates a text label of the object handle next to each selected object. The text labels are created for lines, points, blocks, polylines, arcs and splines. The labels are created in the GeoTools temporary layer called 'GEOTOOLS_TEMP'.

 

 

Toolbar : Beschriftungs Tools
      Menu : GeoTools Beschriftungs Tools Annotationen krieren an Kreuzungen
Command line : GT_CREATEANNOT

The GT_CREATEANNOT command helps you create annotations across a line based on the intersecting objects along its path. The annotation is aligned perpendicular to the direction of the path and it can be either one of the following: Layer names/descriptions, Interval Distance or Cumulative Distance.


 

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