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I think the alignment label settings would benefit  an option to import and export settings and the ability to store different label profiles within this tool. For projects with only a few alignments this setup works great but projects with multiple alignments, particularity phased worked, this setup can be very cumbersome to change settings. I was trying to use this on a highway project where some of the alignments had 5 different phases and multiple haul roads for detention ponds and I found this very clunky. The option to select from different user defined profiles would be great and the ability to import and export these. 

Example of different use cases for different label styles:

• Finished mainlines
• Phases
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 3A
• Walls
• Haul Roads
• Quick Corridors for Presentation

You know that you can turn these On and Off independent of the Layering right? If you find the HAL in the Project Explorer, under the HAL you will find alignment Labels - you can then use the Alignment Label Properties to Turn them On and Off when you don't want to see them. I use this so that I don't have to create new Layers for every set of alignment Labels that I create as I guess that is your main area of change. This is an area where we let you pick the Layer in too many places when the most common use case is to place all the labels and Ticks on a common layer - so being able to change the layer in one click on the front Tab would likely solve this issue rather than having to create a lot of different Profiles just so that you can store things on a different layer.

You can group select from Project Explorer and mass change the property of Rebuild Method to "Show Empty" for those that you want to hide

Let me know if you are changing more than Layer Settings and if you think that maybe if a set of alignment Labels is assigned to a single layer would be OK and if so then the properties of an Alignment label Set would also allow you to change the assigned layer - or when you label the alignment you just change the Layer in one location and you are done - to me that would solve this question unless you are doing more changes in the settings

Alan

I think if all of the label settings went to one layer it would make it a lot easier. I do not see and don't foresee the need to break up the station labeling into various layers. To me labeling is more of a visual aid and it is either all on or all off. Certain cases this maybe different but the user could probably manually override this for those particular entities. 

If the labeling defaulted to the layer of the alignment, that would great. I currently put the labeling on a separate layer but truthfully there really isn't a reason too. It is more out of habit (a change I think I am going to make moving forward). By putting the alignment and the labeling on the same layer things would act more object based, as you mentioned was the intentional intention. If I turn on an alignment I want to see the stationing, if I turn off an alignment, I really do not have a need for just the stationing to be on. The two go hand in hand. 

Alan, I'd really like to see the layer selection on the front Tab would be a really useful feature. If there was a way to set a default in a project template that would be even better. 

The defaults can all be set in the Project Template today Logan - Open a new project with your Default Template (template that you want to fix). Go To Project Settings and then under Abbreviations - Alignment Labels you can preset all of the properties / settings for Alignment Labels - these are what are called up by the Project when you run Edit Alignment Labels. Once you have them setup as you want them (note you will need to create the Layers, Layer Groups and Text Styles that you want to use for this in the Default Prototype Project Also) you can save as Template to update your Default Project Template - now that you have done this - when you have created an Alignment in future projects (or imported one) you simply have to Right Click the Alignment and Edit Alignment Labels and when the editor opens the Labels are drawn as defined and you can close the Editor dialog and you are done.

Hope this helps

Alan

That's great I forgot about that - thanks!