Create section views

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In this video, we're going to take those sample lines that we created and we're going to go and start creating our first section views.

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So in order to create section views, you're going to navigate to the Home tab in the ribbon bar,

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you're going to go to Section Views and you're going to dropdown and you're going to Create Multiple Views.

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You could create a single view and then you also have the options of projecting objects into your section views,

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but what we're going to go ahead and do is we're going to create all of the section views for every single sample that we have created so far.

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So I'm going to go ahead and select Create Multiple Views.

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And then the Create Multiple Views window pops up here.

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So inside of here, we select the alignment that we want to have our sample lines associated with and created as part of a section view.

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The only option we have is Dev-Align because we've only created sample lines on Dev-Align.

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So then we go to our sample line group, we only have one sample line group, so we select our Dev-Xsec-1.

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If we had multiple, you could select which sample line group you wanted to create section views for.

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Moving on from there, the station range, we have it set as automatic,

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because we want to create a section view for every single sample line that we have.

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And these are auto-populated based on the information inside of Civil 3D and based on the start and end stations for our Dev-Align.

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If we wanted to specify a user specified range, we could do that.

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If we didn't want to include information from, let's say, before 1+00, and we didn't want to include information after 7+00,

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we would just put that information inside of these user specified ranges.

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Moving on from there, the section view names,

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what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to change my Section view name to be Dev-Xsec and then have it to counter.

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So it's going to change the counter number based on which section view we're in.

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Moving on from there, we have the layers that the section views are on, and then we have the view styles.

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So the view styles for our section views are just like our profile view styles.

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You have your Information tab, you have your Graph options.

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You have your Grid options, so we're talking about clipping options, padding options, and axis offset options.

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We have our titles for all of the boundaries on the outside edges of our section view.

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Then we have our horizontal axes, our vertical axes, our display, and our summary.

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These are all exactly the same as our profile view windows, but just tailored towards our section views.

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And so you can go through and edit these just like you would have done for your profile view window.

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So moving on from here, one important thing to note is that the scale that you've setup,

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is usually associated with the annotation scale inside of your drawing.

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This is going to become important when we move to the next section.

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So we'll note here that we're on 30 scale.

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I'm going to go ahead and click "OK" and I'm going to go to "Next".

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The reason why the annotation scale on the scale of your sections is important is,

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because we're going to potentially turn these into actual sheet sets,

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that we're going to produce as a product for doing a building at a municipality or something like that.

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What we can go ahead and do is select the template that we're going to use to create those sheets.

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And you'll notice in here that this is selected as ANSI D Section 40 scale.

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And so inside of here, what you'll notice is we have options based on information inside of your computer somewhere,

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usually saved wherever your Civil 3D is saved to, or if you have sheet sets that are already created, you can navigate to where those sheet sets are.

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But for now, we're going to go with the out of the box Civil 3D sets.

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And inside of those, we have options for ARCH D, ARCH E, and ANSI D.

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And you'll notice here all the scales are 40, 20, and 50, there is no 30 scale.

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So when you select your scale for your sheet template, you need to make sure your annotation scale matches,

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so that when you produce your sheets, they populate into your sheet set appropriately and aren't undersized or oversized.

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So I know that I want to go ahead and use a 20 scale, so I want to use an ARCH D 20 scale.

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The only problem now is that in my General tab here, my road section is set to 30,

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but I don't want to modify this one, I actually want to modify my annotation button down here.

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So I'm going to go ahead and cancel out of all of these.

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And if this option is not turned on, the annotation scale, for you to be able to select 1' = 20',

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what you do is you navigate to these three bars here.

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And then you navigate up to Annotation Scale in this list and check it off and then it will populate itself down in the bar down here.

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So once you have this down here, then you can select 1' = 20'.

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You'll notice all of the text that we have in this drawing has now scaled itself down to be 1' = 20' scale instead of the 1' = 30' that we had before.

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So now I'm going to navigate back into section views, Create Multiple Views.

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And what you'll notice is, so I'm going to leave all this information as we had it before.

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But what I'm going to go ahead and do is edit my road section.

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And inside of my road section, you'll notice in the graph, my 30 has now auto-updated itself to 20,

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so that I match the annotation scale inside of my drawing.

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So I'm going to go ahead and hit "OK".

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Then I'm going to go ahead and move on to the Section Placement window.

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I'm going to go into my template options, I'm going to click the ellipses and make sure I have my 20 scale selected, I'm going to click "OK".

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After we've selected our section scale,

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what we're going to go ahead and do is go to our Group Plot Style and we're going to modify our Group Plot Style.

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Our Group Plot Style effectively sets how far apart our sections are going to be from each other and where they're going to orient themselves from.

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So you can do it by rows and by columns.

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You can also state where you want your start corner to be, which is shown by this circle here.

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Then you can have your alignment section views about.

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So do you want to align them about the centerline, the left, or the right, I'm going to choose centerline.

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And then cell sizes uniform per row or column, or uniform for all.

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I'm going to go ahead and leave it as uniform per row or column.

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That way we can select our space between the adjacent section views.

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I'm going to set all of them as 2, so I guess, technically, I could have selected uniform for all and then just add 2 as my uniform.

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But I'm going to go ahead and leave it as row and columns as both 2, and then add a drafting buffer space between the views.

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Then we move on to our plot area, how do we want our total plot area to be,

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your horizontal major and minor grid areas, your vertical major and minor grid areas, and then your gap between successive pages.

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So this is laying out the pages in model space.

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So then we go to Display, what options are shown and what options are not shown.

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And then we have our Summary tab.

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So I'm going to go ahead and click "OK".

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Once make sure you have your column and row set to 2, because I'm going to click "OK".

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And I'm going to move on to the next section.

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In here, we have our offset range, so what our swath widths are, -35 and 35.

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If you wanted to change it, you could do user specified range and give yourself some more room, or shave off some of the extra space.

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Say, you had 50 feet as your swath widths, but you knew you only needed to display 40 feet, you could do user specified as 40.

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So I'm going to leave it as 35 because we chose with purpose what our swath widths were.

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So I'm going to go ahead and click "Next".

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From here, we are going to detail our elevation range.

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It's just like profile views.

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Civil 3D automatically sets it based on the information in our sampled sections.

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If you wanted to specify user range, you could go ahead and select user specified and specify a height.

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I'm going to go ahead and leave it as automatic.

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Moving on to Section Display Options.

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This is where you're going to turn on and turn off the sampling.

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If you wanted to not show your Dev-Cor, you could uncheck it and that would not display inside your section view.

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I'm going to go ahead and leave both of them checked, and I'm going to click "Next".

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And then moving on, we have the Data Band sets.

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These Data Band sets are just like the data band sets for our profile view windows.

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So you can edit them or create new ones.

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You can add information in, in the Band section, you can choose section data or segment data.

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You have band styles that you can edit and change the text information in them.

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I'm going to go ahead and leave it exactly as it is in the drawing right now.

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So I'm going to go ahead and click "OK".

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And then I am going to create my section views.

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So when I click Create Section Views, now Civil 3D is asking me to specify my section view origin.

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So what I'm going to go ahead and do is move over to above my profile view windows,

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and I'm going to pick and it will populate from the bottom left corner and upwards and outwards.

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And so what you'll see now is I have four sheets with nine on each sheet.

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So once we have these created, we can create our section sheets and we'll be doing that in the next video.