Create a profile view

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In this video, we're going to go ahead and create a profile view for the surface profile that we've already created.

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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.

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Inside of the Profile View dropdown, we're going to select the Create Profile View option.

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And then we're going to navigate through this profile view creation window.

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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.

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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.

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So from there, then we have the profile view name, I'm ok with it being the Parent Alignment and Next Counter,

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so I'm not going to change anything here.

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And you can give a description to what the profile view is, and the profile view style.

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So I'm going to leave it as Major Grids and HGP, but note that there's plenty of other options available to you.

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And you can also create a new one or edit the current selection of the profile view styles that are available.

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And just know that creating new or editing are just like any other style inside of Civil 3D,

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you just navigate through all the different tabs and how you want items displayed.

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And we will go over that later.

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So from here, we're going to go ahead and move on to what layer that profile view is going to be on.

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And then if you want to have your offset alignments stacked vertically in different profile views, then you would leave this item checked.

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We don't have any offset profiles currently, so we're going to leave this unchecked and click "Next".

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From here, we'll move on to station range.

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What happens when you create a surface profile and you associate it with an alignment is Civil 3D will automatically assign your station range.

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So our alignment for dev-alignment has a starting station as 0+00 and an ending station 9+96.69.

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And so Civil 3D, when you select automatic, already fills in this information for us.

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If we wanted to do user-specified range and clip down the amount of area that we're creating for our profile view,

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then we could specify a start and end station for our profile view.

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

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Moving into profile view height, similar to station range,

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what we have going on is that Civil 3D automatically fills in the minimum and maximum elevations of the profile view,

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based on the elevations of our surface profile that we cut in a previous video.

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If you wanted to, you could specify user minimum and maximum elevation,

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and choose if that range was very small that you could split your profile view and how that profile view splitting would be displayed.

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Similar to how this icon looks down here, as the profile exceeds the upper limit,

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it would split it and bring it in within range down here and then as it exits down below, it splits it again.

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So we are going to go with automatic for now and click "Next".

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From here, this is all of the profiles that will be displayed inside of this view window.

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Since we only have one surface or one profile, we're going to go ahead and have it just be our EZ surface profile.

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And then if you didn't want to draw it, you could just unclick Draw or leave it clicked.

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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.

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We have the information about the starting and ending stations, and elevations, and what alignments associated with.

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

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If we had a pipe network, we could assign it in here and check it off and have it displayed inside this window.

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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".

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Data bands are a band at the bottom of the profile view.

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It gives us information about the profiles above it.

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If it's a bottom band, if it's a top band, if it's the data below it,

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but we're going to go ahead and just leave this as is auto-populated, and we'll talk about data bands later.

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So I'm going to click "Next".

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And these are hatch options and how Civil 3D treats the hatch in cut areas, fill areas, and then if we have multiple boundaries.

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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.

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So we're going to go ahead and now click "Create Profile View".

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And so when you create your profile view, what you have to be aware of is that,

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when you are picking your view origin, the view origin is generally the bottom left hand corner on the profile view.

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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.

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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,

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and you can see now my profile view populates and we can start working with it.