Labelling contours

Hey,

its me again. At the moment i am struggeling with labelling contours. Basically i have shape file which draws out isometrical lines, then i label contours, everything looks nice/works before plotting but when i plot it on pdf, it basically seems to do a selective plotting of contour labels (all the contours are plotted nicely). Some contour areas are covered nicely, some have only few left, but most parts have none. What could be the problem?

As always, thanks in advance.

Some additional information. My drawing is basically large tiff and shape file on top of it. Contour lines are covering slightly bigger area than the tiff file. Strange thing is that contour labels that are actually plotted are mostly drawn on the bottom and left part of the drawing (plus they also seems to be somewhat following the vertical measurements, as if they are only drawn to a certain height or so), mostly out of the tiff part, but also partially continue on top of tiff, until are not plotted anymore. When i want to view contour labels on the whole drawing area, i basically have to "dr" tiff to back, altough drawing order is set so that tiff is drawn first and then other are placed. Sometimes it just boggles my mind why CAD acts like this. If it wouldnt draw any contour labels, i would understand, but it basically does it partially/regionally somehow and even then there are those regions, where labels are drawn only partially, but are still drawn. Hope this all makes sense. Can anyone maybe have any ideas?

I have been looking for the possible solution for hours by now and the more i try the more confusing it gets.

It has got to be something to do with the size of the labels compared to the screen. At the moment size context is set to "map space" and when i look at the drawing in model, i can see all the labels nicely (they are drawn in absolute units and are not relative to screen). When i look at it in the layout (layout scale is set to 1 mm=1), i can only see lower part of the drawing covered in labels. As i increase the size units, it gradually draws labels to the upper northern part also. Wheres the beef?!

Henri

Your guess as to the problem is pretty much correct. FDO Labels in Paper Space have issues and bugs, one being they're set not to cover up any other label/feature there fore do not display. In 2012 you can save the labels as AutoCAD text, which is still not 100% perfect. Another thing to try is export the map to AutoCAD DWG format from MS then setup the layout in that dwg and plot.

But the strange thing is that they actually do cover up the raster image, but only on very few areas and plus there are those rare places, where only few labels are shown and they seem to be placed chaotically. The dwg export didnt seem to work, labels pretty much act the same as they did when i tried to plot them in original file. I suppose somehow saving labels as AutoCad text is not the possibility in 2011?

Maybe some other idea?

I am going to add a picture also just to give a better understanding of the problem. Polyline marks the tiff image location and basically the black dots are the labels that are being plotted.

The thing is, that it actually copies exactly 2000 labels into text, which seems to be corresponding to the "rasterthreshold" command limit of 2000, is it coincidence?

I finally found the solution to my problem (or to be more exact, somebody else found a solution for me in autodesk forum). Anyways, what i did was that i increased the maximum number of display manager feature labels that are displayed by configuring the Windows Registry to specify new value (in my case, instead of 2000 i upped it to 35 000, which was almost exactly what i needed) for the maximum number of labels displayed. After changing the registry, i just plotted it as usually, it just took alot more time. Heres know-how link for the future struggelers: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=10408989&linkID=9240857

Or if the link goes down, just search http://usa.autodesk.com/ for "increasing maximum number of display manager feature labels displayed"

BTW, if you set the GEOMARKERVISIBILITY system variable to zero, that symbol in the middle of your screen won't display.

Thanks for the tip(y), altough at the moment as the area i am working is quite large, i prefer to have it in those cases, where i for example insert some coordinate uncorrectly. Its just easier for me to orient this way:P.

Thanks for the tip(y), altough at the moment as the area i am working is quite large, i prefer to have it in those cases, where i for example insert some coordinate uncorrectly. Its just easier for me to orient this way:P.

Whatever floats your boat. The day we went to c3d2009, I got online and figured out how to turn that thing off and haven't looked at it since.

I finally found the solution to my problem (or to be more exact, somebody else found a solution for me in autodesk forum). Anyways, what i did was that i increased the maximum number of display manager feature labels that are displayed by configuring the Windows Registry to specify new value (in my case, instead of 2000 i upped it to 35 000, which was almost exactly what i needed) for the maximum number of labels displayed. After changing the registry, i just plotted it as usually, it just took alot more time. Heres know-how link for the future struggelers: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=10408989&linkID=9240857

 

Or if the link goes down, just search http://usa.autodesk.com/ for "increasing maximum number of display manager feature labels displayed"

I was going to post the link but I tried it (my book mark for it) and it didn't work this morning, thanks for the updated one. I aslo knew Nate would anwser you in the Adesk group too.

Whatever floats your boat.

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