I would like the ability to place labels and annotate elements using static text. Meaning, once the label or annotation is place it will not update or change. I would love the comfort of placing labels and not worrying if I will lose the field info somehow or an element may be deleted or replaced and the label runs off the sheet. It would be great to have a button in the civil labeler dialog dropping the text favorites to text. Also having a button when annotating elements.
I do a lot of plan production and at times files are replaced or features are removed. With ruled labels and annotation this can cause issues. If labels had the ability to be static text users could do tasks like copy and paste labels between files. Files with many labels seem to slow down and take extra time to open. This change would fix that issue removing the rules to be processed.
Please consider.
| Civil Product Used | OpenSite Designer, OpenRoads Designer, OpenRail Designer |
Yes please add this. Cross sections already do this by default, why cant plan annotations or profiles? Give a check box at time of running annotations to choose static/dynamic at a minimum.
InRoads Notes worked great for me. The labels where Microstation text that could be copied and pasted and wouldn't update unless I ran the update notes command. Also if the annotated elements where removed the values wouldn't go to "0" . With ORD I have seen civil labels lose association at times and the values zero out.
The slowest of ORD labels have caused use to rethink how we use labels. Maybe an option to have a static label with an update command will increase performance. I would be ok with that. Just depends, annotation in a sheet I may want to update automatically but annotation in a design file I may want to update manually.
What if, instead, we look at the performance issues and getting the update mechanism more consistent? Otherwise, we'd be treating a symptom of a larger issue.