Compare components of a profile view

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In this video, we're going to talk about the profile view window that we just created.

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We're going to talk about the different parts of that profile view window, and how to edit some of those components.

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So what we're dealing with here in our profile view window is,

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there's actually three separate components that we deal with when we're talking about profile view windows.

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We actually have the profile view window itself, which is the larger rectangular boundary,

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and all the grid lines and annotation that are associated with it.

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We then have our profiles, either our surface profiles or our design profiles, which we haven't created yet.

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And then we have our data band at the bottom.

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So first, we're going to talk about the profile view window, and then we'll get into our profiles, and then we'll talk about data bands.

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So the profile view window to get into editing and talking about the different components within the profile view window,

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we're going to select our profile view window, then we're going to move up into the contextual ribbon bar under Profile View Properties.

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And inside of the Profile View Properties, you'll have multiple tabs associated with that profile view.

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The first object we're going to talk about is the object style.

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And the object style controls a large component or a large amount of information regarding your profile view window.

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So we have the Information tab which talks about the name and the description of the Profile View Style that we have.

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Moving on, we have the graph.

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And so the Graph tab controls what we have our vertical and horizontal scale set at.

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So you can choose your current horizontal scale and you can modify it.

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And then based on what your horizontal scale is and what you have your vertical scale or your custom scale set to,

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your vertical exaggeration will automatically update depending on these components.

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As you can see from the equation here equals horizontal over vertical scale.

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You can also control which direction your profile reads, whether it's left to right or right to left.

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And a lot of the components inside of the Profile View Style and also when we're talking about the data bands and that kind of stuff,

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they have handy icons that kind of show you what we're talking about.

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So if I click right to left, it shows you the direction it is going to read. And then left to right shows you the direction it's going to read.

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Same thing with grids. We have clipping options for our grid lines.

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So if you want to clip vertical grids, this icon will show you what it's going to look like after you're done so.

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If you clip to highest profile, you'll see the grid lines will go up to the highest profile,

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and then clip once it crosses the highest profile line where you can only create in padded areas.

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Padded areas are down below here.

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It's basically setting upper and lower buffers in elevation and then horizontal buffers in our station.

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So basically, whatever our grid setting is for our increment,

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we're going to give 1 increment to the left and 1 increment to the right, 2 increments above, 2 increments below.

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And you can change these numbers to give yourself more padding or less padding dependent on what you need.

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So I'm going to go ahead and unclick this, or unclick this and then we'll move over to horizontal.

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Horizontal is the same as vertical, you can clip it to the highest profile or you can omit grid in padded areas.

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And then we have an offset access, so what you can do here is, when you do a profile view window, it centers the profile in the view window.

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If you want to uncenter the profile in the profile view window,

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then you would use this axis offset to move your profile to the left or the right or up or down.

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Moving onto Title Annotation, this is going to show us how the title that we have here like our Dev-Align profile at the top,

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how each of these sides are labeled.

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So we have the top and then we have the text type, location, text style.

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And then we have over here the graph view title, what the content of that is going to be.

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And so if I wanted to change the content of this, I could type it in here.

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And then we can edit the text based on what information we want to pull into the title.

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And then moving on from there, we have the title position.

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And then we can move to the right hand side, same edits, location, text style, further location information, text information,

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and then bottom and left are all the same.

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Moving on to Horizontal Axes, we have our major ticks, what intervals they fall at, the tick sizes, the justification of the tick.

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We have the text height, then we have the text value.

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So you can go into here, edit the text value, pull information from the four options you have here,

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and shoot them across to give yourself information into your horizontal bands for your horizontal axes.

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So then moving on from there, we have our rotation of that text and our offset of that text.

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Then we have our minor ticks, so our major ticks are 0s, 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and so on.

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Our minor ticks are the intervals of, for this one 25 feet.

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You can change the interval, but most of the time you're going to be using 100 and 25.

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Tick sizes you can change.

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Justification again, just the same as the major ticks.

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And then you also have the option for displaying horizontal geometry,

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which inside of this window you can see these lines that don't fall on an actual grid line,

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those are marking out where you have horizontal geometry in your profile that are associated with a horizontal curve,

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or some sort of horizontal component of your alignment.

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Moving on to Vertical Axes, we have the left and the right.

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Just as we had in the horizontal axes, we have the top and the bottom.

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We have the options for our major tick, our intervals for major and minor, our tick sizes for major and minor, our justifications,

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and our tick label text, and our text style, rotation, and offsets.

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So same thing as before, if you want to edit what information is being displayed on the vertical axes, you can go into the edit text,

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pull down the information that you want to pull and then shoot it across into your label and apply it.

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So then we can move on to the Display tab and this is where we kind of control everything.

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We've set up all of our parameters and now we're going to tell it what we want it to display.

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So you move from your graph title, you control all of your left axis information, then you control all of your right axis information,

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then your top axis and then your bottom axis, and then you have your grid information.

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So moving on from there, you can set all of your layers, your colors, your visibility,

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to control how much or how little information you want to display in the Profile View window.

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And once you have this all set up, you can go ahead and hit "Apply".

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I'm going to go ahead and hit "OK" since I didn't change anything, and we're going to move on to Stations.

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So stations is the same as when we set up the Profile View window, we have it set to automatic,

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if we wanted to modify that, we could go to user specified range and shrink down our Profile View window.

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But we're going to go ahead and leave it as Automatic.

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Same thing with Elevation, it is the set height that we had when we created our Profile View window.

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We could modify to user specified height, but I'm going to go ahead and leave it as Automatic.

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If you specify user height and your height is small enough that you are required to reduce the profile views,

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you can then go in and select Split Profile views and do either Manual or Automatic.

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And if you switch between Manual and Automatic, we are going to get this warning, it says, warning.

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All manually specified splits values will be lost.

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And so I'm just going to say "OK" because I don't care.

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And so I'm going to uncheck this and move back to automatic height.

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Then we have our profile display information, just as we had before when we created the view window,

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where you can control how your actual profile gets displayed in this window.

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So what the style is, and really the style is the most important part for this display window,

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because it's going to control what that actual profile looks like.

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Moving on to Bands, now we can talk about bands.

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The bands are the information at the very, very bottom of the window.

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What you can do is you can also apply bands to the top of the profile view.

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And as you can see, we have none applied in here.

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If we were to select a band type, we could go down and choose a band style,

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and then we can add it to our Profile View window and it would be applied to the top of profile based on our location.

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You can also get other information, profile data, vertical geometry, horizontal geometry, super elevation, section data, and pipe data.

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And then each one of those would have a specific band style associated with it.

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I'm going to go ahead and look at the band that we have applied and all the bands act in the same way as this one.

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Well, there may be more information or less information dependent upon what band type you pick.

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But the way to create and edit them is all going to be the same.

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So I'm going to move down to profile data, I'm going to go ahead and look at Edit Current Selection.

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And what you're going to see in here is your information for the name of your profile band, the band details, the display.

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So all of the information that we're going to set up in our band details,

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whether or not you're going to display it and how it's going to be displayed and what layers it's going to be displayed on.

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And then you have your Summary tab like any other style window that we have dealt with so far, as we've been working through Civil 3D.

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So moving into the band details, what you have options for our labels and ticks at certain points inside of your Profile View window.

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You can have your major stations, minor stations, horizontal geometry points,

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so begin of curve, end of curve, that kind of information for your actual alignment.

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Then we have our vertical geometry points.

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So when we have a design profile, whether you have a grade break or a vertical curve or something like that,

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you can display certain vertical geometry points and information into the data band.

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Same with station equations and incremental distances.

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And every time you want to deal with one of these, you can choose whether or not you have full band, height ticks or small ticks,

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and the small ticks you set the sizes of those ticks.

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The only time you don't get to deal with this is when you're talking about incremental distances and all you get to have is composing a label.

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Moving into composing an actual label, each of these are going to be this the same.

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What we're dealing with is we're dealing with the same as all the labels that we've dealt with for any of the other objects inside of Civil 3D.

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We have in General settings, where we talk about our label, text styles, our visibility,

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our layer that it's on, our orientation, our insertions, our readability.

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And then we deal with the layout of how it's actually being displayed.

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Most important is the contents of that label, so moving into the contents of the label,

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you have options for all of the different properties dependent upon which type of band you're working with.

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So we're currently working with a profile data band, so we're going to be able to pull live information in about profiles.

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So if you wanted to pull information about a different component, not necessarily your profile data, but maybe your horizontal geometry data,

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then that would be a different band set and you would have different properties available to you in your Text Component Editor.

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So we're going to go ahead and hit "OK".

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You also have your dragged state, you can drag some of these and this is how you would set up your dragged state for those ticks.

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And then when you're finished, you're going to go ahead and hit "OK".

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It will apply that information to this major station.

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And then you would have to move through and set up your labels for each individual label and text style.

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And then when you're done with that, like I said before, you would set up your display settings and then hit "Apply" and hit "OK".

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And that's how this data band would display itself.