Label Flexibility in Civil 3D 2012

The idea of being able to rotate labels in Civil 3D has been a feature that we have been waiting a long time for.  In the past when we created a template, we would have labels set to different rotation angles.  Notice the screen capture below, we are now given options whether we want to rotate the label or label and marker. 

This option now allows us to accomplish in one label what many labels in the past would have done.

The other new feature that has been added to labels is the maximum width option in the style composer.

 

The maximum width allows us to get text wrapping in all of our labels, so instead of getting this.

You will now get that.  Again, flexibility in labels will allow us to have less labels in our template and more ability to control what those styles do.