Tutorial: Preparing To Annotate A Drawing; Exercise 1: Attaching Drawings As Xrefs For Annotation - Autodesk CIVIL3D - CIVILDESIGNCOMP 2007 SLM CD Tutorials Manual

style. This action requires some forethought, because your changes affect all objects in the
drawing that use the style.
Label visibility can be controlled in several ways. First, label visibility is dependent on the
parent object. When the layer of the parent object is either turned off or frozen, its labels
are also turned off or frozen. The label style can also control its visibility. The visibility of
the individual label components, or the entire label object, can be turned on or off in the
style. An individual label can also be selected and turned on or off using the Properties
palette.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding Labels.

Tutorial: Preparing to Annotate a Drawing

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform some optional tasks that can make
annotating your drawing easier.
First, you will create external references (Xrefs) to drawings that contain the
objects that you will annotate in later Labels and Tables tutorials. Second, you
will learn how to use the AutoCAD Civil 3D ribbon to locate all of the
annotation commands.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding
Labels and the AutoCAD Help topic Attach Drawing References (Xrefs).

Exercise 1: Attaching Drawings as Xrefs for Annotation

In this exercise, you will attach several drawings to one drawing. By attaching
drawings, you can annotate multiple large objects in a single compact drawing.
Detailed labeling is usually one of the last steps in the design process. In
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, you do not have to annotate objects in the drawings
in which they reside. You can create a single drawing with external references
(Xrefs) to the object drawings. This process enables you to keep your
annotation drawing size to a minimum, while maintaining the benefit of
dynamic label updates.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Help topic Attach Drawing References
(Xrefs).
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