AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Contour Label Line

May 31, 2013

I have been creating contour surface labels, which utilize a 3-point  contour label line with grips to adjust, and this is my question:

when i create a single contour label, clicking specifically on a contour i want labeled, the contour label line with the 3-grips extends beyond several contours and thus places a label at every contour it touches.  i can manually fix this by shorting the line, but this seems very inefficient. 

1. is there a setting to have the label only placed on the center grip of the three?

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