Using MAPANNTEXT to create annotation from GIS attributes in Civil 3D. 

This was very helpful and will save me countless hours in the future. Used a project we had with nearly 2000 Parcels that I needed to add PIN #'s and Addresses. Unlike your "perfect" shapefile mine is not so there is some 'tweaking' that needs to be done, but, man is this a time saver for me and a great jump off point to fine tune my own workflow for future projects.

This was exactly what I was trying to do! Thank you. I found that after you create the field, and you are still in block editor, you can double click on the field and a dialog box will pop up. If you clear out the default text it will not insert the name of the field if that field is blank. It will just leave it blank. Hope this helps someone. I used this to place multiple fields over the top of each other at 0,0 (knowing that only one would be populated for any given data set).

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Hey Jerry, as always a Master level tips :) Thanks for that

This is wonderful! But lets say you have a pipe network shown as polylines and you wanted to add the diameter of each pipes over each line. How do you rotated the text to follow each polyline and define the space between the text and the polyline?

Very usefull, I really appreciate. saved me.

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Hi Jerry, this is a great feature and we use it frequently. One thing I'm wondering though - is there a way to make these labels plan readable? As in have them appear upright in a rotated viewport similar to how other annotative text objects and C3D labels behave? Thanks in advance.

Thanks so much for the video! I have a map of a city and the street name data is separated (Street Type, Street Title and Name). I need to concatenate this data and then insert the labels according to the rotation of the street polyline. Please, is there a video with this orientation? It is possible to do in Autocad Map 3D 2018.

thanks so much for this traine, pleas help me how can i get annotation text from extend data (Property Set Define) in civil 3D

Thank you,

Another very helpful video. Question, how do you add a background text mask to the parcel labels created from the custom block reference (MAP3D object data)? Ideally want these labels as MTEXT. When I explode these blocks, I lose the attribute values (e.g. parcel number). Also EXPORTTOAUTOCAD doesn't convert the blocks to MTEXT. Any ideas?

Hello. Very interesting video. How to reduce the accuracy of the attributes? eg 100.235656 - 100.24

I would like to add some additional attributes to this block, but using the Define Attributes command doesn't seem to work as part of the Template. In the Edit Template Contents screen, I added an attribute by using Define Attribute. I enter a tag number, a prompt, and a default text, place the placeholder in my block, and then save and exit. When I refresh the block using the "Update Annotation" button, the new field does not show up. If I double-click on the block, it only gives me the option to edit the original attributes I defined with MAPANNOTEXT. The new fields are there in REFEDIT, but they don't seem to be incorporated as attributes I can edit.

Open and shut case.