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and exit the Label Style Composer and Major Station Label Style dialog
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5 Click Home tab ➤ Layers panel ➤ Layer list. Next to the C-ROAD layer, click to turn on the C-ROAD layer and the station labels. 6 On the command line, enter REGEN. Create a label style that is not affected by the parent object layer 1 Select label 0+120 to select all major station labels. On the Properties palette, under Labeling, click the field next to Major Station Label Style. Click Create/Edit. 2 In the Major Station Label Style dialog box, click Selection. Edit Current In the Label Style Composer dialog box, on the General tab, in the Label category, notice that the Layer is 0. If a label style is set to layer 0, any of its color, line type, and line weight properties that are set to ByLayer or ByBlock will inherit the corresponding properties of the layer on which the label resides. 3 Click the Layout tab. In the Text category, notice that the Color property for the Station component is ByLayer. This means that the major station label text inherits the color of the layer to which the style refers. Because the label style refers to layer 0, the major station label text inherits the color of the label object layer, which is C-ROAD_TEXT. 4 In the Color row, click the Value cell. Click component color to blue. and change the Station Notice that the text color updates in the Preview pane. NOTE For greater control of color, lineweight, and linetype, keep all style components set to either ByBlock or ByLayer, and the label style layer set to 0. Then, you can use the layers to modify these properties. This tutorial uses a specific color setting to demonstrate how layer settings affect styles. 5 In the Component Name list, select Tick. In the Tick category, notice that the Color property for the Tick component is ByLayer. 6 Click OK to apply the change in color to the Major Station component and exit the Label Style Composer and Major Station Label Style dialog boxes. Exercise 3: Controlling Label Appearance Using Layers | 785