Skip to main content

Terrain Labels (Contour, Elevation, Slope, and Direction Labels)

Updated

Enhancing your site plans with accurate terrain labels can greatly improve communication and visualization in your designs. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through simple steps to generate terrain labels in Plex-Earth, helping you add elevation data directly onto your CAD drawings with ease.

Tutorial Guide:

Import Terrain

Create Labels

Remove Labels

Edit Labels

 

Import Terrain

Before adding labels, ensure that your drawing is georeferenced and that the terrain data has been imported. 

Create Labels

After importing your Contours, go to the Labels tab in the Terrain Editor and tick Show Labels.

Show Labels.png

Then click Create to enable the creation of labels for Contours, Elevation, Slope, and Direction.

Create.png

The drop-down list will show the following options:

Create Contours.png

The types of labels you can create with Plex-Earth are displayed as follows:

  • Contour Labels: Use your mouse to create connected imaginary lines that will be perpendicular to the orientation of the contour labels.
    Contour Labels.png
  • Elevation Labels: Click anywhere on the terrain to insert points on that point you clicked on.
    Elevations Labels.png
  • Slope Labels:
    In the command line, select if you want a one-point or two-point slope label
    • One-point: Specify a point to insert the label in
    • Two-point: You will be asked to specify a first and second source point for the label

        Slope Labels.png

  • Direction Labels: Use your mouse to specify a point to insert the label in
    Direction Labels.png
ℹ️ NOTE: In order to add Elevation, Slope, or Direction Labels you should create a Terrain Analysis first.

Remove Labels

Click on Remove to enable label elimination. 

Remove.png

The drop-down list will show the following options:

remove labels.png

Edit Labels

You can then edit the Text Height, Arrow Length and Head size (for Slope and Direction Labels), and Point Size (For Elevation Analysis). Following tick the label type you want to be visible, pick the color of your choice, and click Apply.

Edit Labels.png

ℹ️ NOTE: The color box in Text Height only affects the Contour Labels. To edit the color of Slope, Elevation, and Direction Labels, click on the relevant color box.

Conclusion

By utilizing this Plex-Earth feature, designers can effectively add and manage terrain labels in CAD projects, enhancing the readability and professionalism of their topographic data.

We hope that you have found this tutorial on terrain labels, helpful. Feel free to contact us at support@plexscape.com for any questions you may still have.

Don't have Plex-Earth yet? Install a fully functional 7-day free trial of Plex-Earth now!

plex-earth-free-trial.png

Compatibility includes:

AutoCAD, Civil 3D®, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD MEP, AutoCAD Plant 3D: 2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020
BricsCAD (Pro, Mechanical, BIM, Ultimate): V25 , V24 , V23 , V22 , V21

Related articles