On any and all "Drafting Notes" - we need the capability to specify custom formats for almost any value being computed and labeled.
- For Station Labels, being able to truncate the whole Station values from a Station (only report the Station + and those digits to its right) is just one possibility. We might want to truncate the + and those digits to the right - only reporting the whole Station value. Or we might want to truncate the decimal precision.
- STA 215
- STA 215+14
- STA 215+14.50
- +14.5
- For elevations, we might want a different precision for existing elevations as opposed to proposed elevations. I've also worked somewhere that when labeling spot elevations, they truncated anything larger than 100, only reporting elevations in the tens and ones columns, in addition to one or two decimals, depending upon is it was a hard or natural surface spot grade. The also used underlined superscript for the decimal values on these spot elevations. So 214.65 would be labeled as 1465
- For Distances (offsets, lengths, etc.) again, we would want to be able to specify the precision as part of the label's definition.
- Within any value, in any label definition, enable or disable leading and/or trailing zeros. This should include plan and profile stationing annotations.
As I understand it, Open Roads Designer has its own built in tools for customizing Stationing and Other Alignment Annotations. I have had little time to experiment with it, so I do not know if it also has any form of its own Drafting Tools so far. But I assume any Enhancement Request at this time would be used to enhance Open Roads Designer and not for any current release.
However, by all means file an Enhancement Request, just include these suggestions as part of it.
I have not been a big fan of having Design File settings control the precision and format of some of these labels in Ss3/4. These labels are like a form of a dimension style and there are a number of locations to specify precision in the dimension styles. This type of variable settings need to also exist in any and all labeling tools.