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title: Putting Grade label on Section View Group
description: "## Motivation I would like to show the `grade` of the section view of the road surface because I need to confirm that the lane is correctly sloping towards the left and right sides of the road, with a slope…"
url: "https://civilwhiz.com/docs/putting-grade-label-on-section-view-group/"
updated: "2025-03-26"
category: Road
---

# Putting Grade label on Section View Group

## Motivation

I would like to show the `grade` of the section view of the road surface because I need to confirm that the lane is correctly sloping towards the left and right sides of the road, with a slope of `-2.5%`. How can I do that?

## The Two Solutions

There are two ways that you can show the grade in the **Section View**: either by displaying the grade on the **Corridor**, using the [**Code Set Style**](https://civilwhiz.com/docs/what-is-layer-styles-and-code-set-styles/#4-toc-title) basis, or on the **Surfaces**, using the **Section Style** basis.

For a **Section View**, you can show multiple elements. You can display a cut of the **Corridor** (which **Code Set Style** is being used) and also a cut of the **Corridor Surface**, which is essentially just a **Surface** (which **Section Style** is being used). You can show both, superimposed on top of each other. This can be confusing, but it is also flexible if you know what you really want.

![Section View](/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/section-view.png)

The screenshot above should illustrate the matter clearly. **MiTS Road Corridor** is a section from the **Corridor**. **MiTS Road Corridor RoadDatum** and **MiTS Road Corridor RoadTop** are **Surfaces**, just like **survey**. You can choose to enable none, one, or all of them, and your options will be shown/editable in the **Section View**.

## Show Grade on Corridor

First, right-click on a **Section View** and choose **Section View Group Properties** from the right-click context menu. This will bring you to the above screenshot.

Since this is a *Corridor*, we need to use **Code Set Style**. The very idea of **Code Set Style** is that you set Styles and Labels on a “Code” basis. In this case, we will set it on a **link code** basis, as it pertains to the grade on a *line*, as shown below.

![Datum Code Set Style](/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/datum-code-set-style.png)

For this case, we will pick the **Code with Labels** Code Set Style. Since we want to show the grade on the **Datum** line, we need to set the **Label Style** to **Steep Grades**, as **Steep Grades** already contains the `Link Grade` contents. You can see this in the **Label Style Composer**, as shown below.

![Link Grade](/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/link-grade.png)

In the **Label Style Composer**, you can also adjust other properties such as **Y offset** and **Text Height** to make the labels more presentable in the **Section View**.

The **Contents** of the **Steep Grades** Label Style is as follows:

```bash
<[Link Grade(FRun|P2|RN|AP|Sn|OF)]>
```

To avoid confusion, we should enable the **Label Set** and/or **Style** for only one of the sections. Therefore, we need to ensure that the **MiTS Road Corridor RoadDatum** Corridor Surface has **_No Labels** for **Label Sets**.

## Show Grade on Corridor Surface

To show the grade on a *Corridor Surface*, such as **MiTS Road Corridor RoadDatum**, the first step is to set the **MiTS Road Corridor** Code Set Style to **All Codes - No Display**. This ensures that no labels are displayed on a Link Code basis and prevents interference with the labels we set on our *Corridor Surface*.

Next, select the **MiTS Road CorridorDatum** Corridor Surface and click on **Label Sets**. You may want to define a new **Label Set**, which consists of only one **Segments** Type and a Style that displays the Grade (**Length & Slope**), as shown below:

![Label Style](/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/label-styles.png)

Inside the **Length & Slope** `Label Style Composer`, you can define the text content to show the Length (**L**) and Slope (**S**) as follows:

```bash
L=<[Section Segment Length(Um|P2|RN|AP|GC|UN|Sn|OF)]>, S=<[Section Segment Cross Slope(FP|P1|RN|AP|Sn|OF)]>
```

This will give you the `Slope` and `Length` representation in the **Section View**, as shown below:

![Slope Length](/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Slope-and-Length.png)

## Conclusion

So which is better? It’s a subjective call, and it all depends on preference.

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