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Adding Spot Elevation Labels and Cleaning Up Drawing in Civil 3D

Spot Elevation Workflow

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Add Labels > Spot Elevation

Select surface, then click locations.

2

Custom Label Style

Tune precision and prefix per office standard.

3

Drag for Clarity

Move labels off geometry for readability.

4

Cleanup Pass

Remove duplicate labels; verify all critical points labeled.

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We're going to go ahead and do a little bit of cleanup on our drawing, and then add in a couple more labels before we set up this drawing as a sheet. So first, we're going to go ahead and add in some spot elevation labels.

I'm going to go ahead and click Add Labels. I'm going to drop down and select Surface. I'm going to drop down and select Spot Elevation.

And then I'm going to make sure I'm using my Spot L label style that we created in our drawing template file. So I'm going to go ahead and click Add. Civil 3D is asking me to select a surface or press the ENTER key to select from the list.

I'm going to hit ENTER. I'm going to drop down and I'm going to select my Finished Construction surface. I'm going to click OK.

And then Civil 3D is asking me to select points. I'm going to go ahead and pick points on the four corners of my desilting basin. I'm also going to drop some spot elevations along my walking path.

And then I'm going to go up to this lot that I created this drainage swale for, and I'm going to put labels at some key points on that drainage swale. I'm going to place them at the corners, at the confluence point, and then at the other corners. I'm going to go ahead and press Escape.

And I'm going to do a little bit more cleanup in my drawing by deleting some of the extra labels that I don't want to have inside my drawing. We have this 10-inch gate callout. Yes, we added it.

No, I don't think it's necessary. Same thing with this T. Since we have these question marks and we haven't addressed them yet, I'm going to go ahead and delete them. I'm going to go ahead and delete these structure callouts.

I think that they are cluttering the drawing. I'm going to go ahead and change this to a Drag State because it doesn't fit along this pipe. I'm going to go ahead and delete the remainder of these structures.

I'm going to take this and change it to a Drag State. Again, deleting more structures. Changing this to a Drag State as well.

Deleting these structures. Changing this to a Drag State. I'm going to go ahead and delete this structure and this structure.

I'm going to change this to a Drag State over here. I'm going to delete this structure, and this structure, and this structure. I'm going to go ahead and change this to a Drag State over here.

I'm going to change this to a Drag State up here. And I'm going to change this to a Drag State up here. Now that we've got all of these labels set up correctly, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out.

I'm going to save the drawing, and I'll meet you in the next video.