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Transcript
00:05
In this video, we're going to go ahead and create a profile view for the surface profile that we've already created.
00:11
So in order to do that, what we have to do is navigate up into the Home tab of the ribbon bar and navigate over to the Profile View dropdown.
00:18
Inside of the Profile View dropdown, we're going to select the Create Profile View option.
00:23
And then we're going to navigate through this profile view creation window.
00:27
So starting in the general section, we're going to go ahead and select the alignment that we want to associate with our profile view.
00:35
So we're going to select the Dev-Alignment because we have a dev-alignment surface profile that we already have created that we're going to display.
00:42
So from there, then we have the profile view name, I'm ok with it being the Parent Alignment and Next Counter,
00:48
so I'm not going to change anything here.
00:51
And you can give a description to what the profile view is, and the profile view style.
00:56
So I'm going to leave it as Major Grids and HGP, but note that there's plenty of other options available to you.
01:02
And you can also create a new one or edit the current selection of the profile view styles that are available.
01:09
And just know that creating new or editing are just like any other style inside of Civil 3D,
01:15
you just navigate through all the different tabs and how you want items displayed.
01:21
And we will go over that later.
01:24
So from here, we're going to go ahead and move on to what layer that profile view is going to be on.
01:30
And then if you want to have your offset alignments stacked vertically in different profile views, then you would leave this item checked.
01:39
We don't have any offset profiles currently, so we're going to leave this unchecked and click "Next".
01:46
From here, we'll move on to station range.
01:48
What happens when you create a surface profile and you associate it with an alignment is Civil 3D will automatically assign your station range.
01:58
So our alignment for dev-alignment has a starting station as 0+00 and an ending station 9+96.69.
02:05
And so Civil 3D, when you select automatic, already fills in this information for us.
02:10
If we wanted to do user-specified range and clip down the amount of area that we're creating for our profile view,
02:18
then we could specify a start and end station for our profile view.
02:22
I'm going to go ahead and leave it as automatic and click "Next".
02:25
Moving into profile view height, similar to station range,
02:29
what we have going on is that Civil 3D automatically fills in the minimum and maximum elevations of the profile view,
02:37
based on the elevations of our surface profile that we cut in a previous video.
02:42
If you wanted to, you could specify user minimum and maximum elevation,
02:47
and choose if that range was very small that you could split your profile view and how that profile view splitting would be displayed.
02:56
Similar to how this icon looks down here, as the profile exceeds the upper limit,
03:01
it would split it and bring it in within range down here and then as it exits down below, it splits it again.
03:08
So we are going to go with automatic for now and click "Next".
03:12
From here, this is all of the profiles that will be displayed inside of this view window.
03:18
Since we only have one surface or one profile, we're going to go ahead and have it just be our EZ surface profile.
03:26
And then if you didn't want to draw it, you could just unclick Draw or leave it clicked.
03:31
And then here's how it is going to be displayed, you have the type, the source, the style that it's being displayed as.
03:38
We have the information about the starting and ending stations, and elevations, and what alignments associated with.
03:44
So I'm going to go ahead and click "Next".
03:46
If we had a pipe network, we could assign it in here and check it off and have it displayed inside this window.
03:52
This Network 1 is the one that's associated with our main road up here, so I am not going to check that, and I'm going to click "Next".
03:59
Data bands are a band at the bottom of the profile view.
04:04
It gives us information about the profiles above it.
04:07
If it's a bottom band, if it's a top band, if it's the data below it,
04:11
but we're going to go ahead and just leave this as is auto-populated, and we'll talk about data bands later.
04:17
So I'm going to click "Next".
04:18
And these are hatch options and how Civil 3D treats the hatch in cut areas, fill areas, and then if we have multiple boundaries.
04:27
So we're not going to select any of these cut or fill areas because we're just going to be displaying a surface profile.
04:34
So we're going to go ahead and now click "Create Profile View".
04:37
And so when you create your profile view, what you have to be aware of is that,
04:41
when you are picking your view origin, the view origin is generally the bottom left hand corner on the profile view.
04:49
So what I'm going to do is everything above and to the right of my cursor is going to be where the profile view displays.
04:58
So I don't want to click down here because it would display over my surface, so I'm going to go ahead and go up here and then click,
05:05
and you can see now my profile view populates and we can start working with it.
Video transcript
00:05
In this video, we're going to go ahead and create a profile view for the surface profile that we've already created.
00:11
So in order to do that, what we have to do is navigate up into the Home tab of the ribbon bar and navigate over to the Profile View dropdown.
00:18
Inside of the Profile View dropdown, we're going to select the Create Profile View option.
00:23
And then we're going to navigate through this profile view creation window.
00:27
So starting in the general section, we're going to go ahead and select the alignment that we want to associate with our profile view.
00:35
So we're going to select the Dev-Alignment because we have a dev-alignment surface profile that we already have created that we're going to display.
00:42
So from there, then we have the profile view name, I'm ok with it being the Parent Alignment and Next Counter,
00:48
so I'm not going to change anything here.
00:51
And you can give a description to what the profile view is, and the profile view style.
00:56
So I'm going to leave it as Major Grids and HGP, but note that there's plenty of other options available to you.
01:02
And you can also create a new one or edit the current selection of the profile view styles that are available.
01:09
And just know that creating new or editing are just like any other style inside of Civil 3D,
01:15
you just navigate through all the different tabs and how you want items displayed.
01:21
And we will go over that later.
01:24
So from here, we're going to go ahead and move on to what layer that profile view is going to be on.
01:30
And then if you want to have your offset alignments stacked vertically in different profile views, then you would leave this item checked.
01:39
We don't have any offset profiles currently, so we're going to leave this unchecked and click "Next".
01:46
From here, we'll move on to station range.
01:48
What happens when you create a surface profile and you associate it with an alignment is Civil 3D will automatically assign your station range.
01:58
So our alignment for dev-alignment has a starting station as 0+00 and an ending station 9+96.69.
02:05
And so Civil 3D, when you select automatic, already fills in this information for us.
02:10
If we wanted to do user-specified range and clip down the amount of area that we're creating for our profile view,
02:18
then we could specify a start and end station for our profile view.
02:22
I'm going to go ahead and leave it as automatic and click "Next".
02:25
Moving into profile view height, similar to station range,
02:29
what we have going on is that Civil 3D automatically fills in the minimum and maximum elevations of the profile view,
02:37
based on the elevations of our surface profile that we cut in a previous video.
02:42
If you wanted to, you could specify user minimum and maximum elevation,
02:47
and choose if that range was very small that you could split your profile view and how that profile view splitting would be displayed.
02:56
Similar to how this icon looks down here, as the profile exceeds the upper limit,
03:01
it would split it and bring it in within range down here and then as it exits down below, it splits it again.
03:08
So we are going to go with automatic for now and click "Next".
03:12
From here, this is all of the profiles that will be displayed inside of this view window.
03:18
Since we only have one surface or one profile, we're going to go ahead and have it just be our EZ surface profile.
03:26
And then if you didn't want to draw it, you could just unclick Draw or leave it clicked.
03:31
And then here's how it is going to be displayed, you have the type, the source, the style that it's being displayed as.
03:38
We have the information about the starting and ending stations, and elevations, and what alignments associated with.
03:44
So I'm going to go ahead and click "Next".
03:46
If we had a pipe network, we could assign it in here and check it off and have it displayed inside this window.
03:52
This Network 1 is the one that's associated with our main road up here, so I am not going to check that, and I'm going to click "Next".
03:59
Data bands are a band at the bottom of the profile view.
04:04
It gives us information about the profiles above it.
04:07
If it's a bottom band, if it's a top band, if it's the data below it,
04:11
but we're going to go ahead and just leave this as is auto-populated, and we'll talk about data bands later.
04:17
So I'm going to click "Next".
04:18
And these are hatch options and how Civil 3D treats the hatch in cut areas, fill areas, and then if we have multiple boundaries.
04:27
So we're not going to select any of these cut or fill areas because we're just going to be displaying a surface profile.
04:34
So we're going to go ahead and now click "Create Profile View".
04:37
And so when you create your profile view, what you have to be aware of is that,
04:41
when you are picking your view origin, the view origin is generally the bottom left hand corner on the profile view.
04:49
So what I'm going to do is everything above and to the right of my cursor is going to be where the profile view displays.
04:58
So I don't want to click down here because it would display over my surface, so I'm going to go ahead and go up here and then click,
05:05
and you can see now my profile view populates and we can start working with it.
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