Using AutoCAD Fields to Create “Smart Text” in Civil 3D Drawings

Published: 17 September 2020
on channel: Jeff Bartels

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Civil 3D label styles are capable of extracting (and annotating) data stored within Civil objects. Once placed, Civil 3D labels update automatically each time an associated object changes. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could assign similar labels to non-Civil 3D objects? Fortunately, we can!
In this session we’ll be exploring an annotation concept called “Fields”. Fields (introduced in AutoCAD 2005) provide a way of linking base AutoCAD drawing/object properties to annotations. Since Civil 3D is built upon the AutoCAD platform, we can use Fields as a way of placing even more maintenance free annotations in our drawings.
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