Create a surface profile

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A surface profile is a long section view of a surface.

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In our case, the existing ground

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generated along the length of an alignment.

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The profile is drawing in a profile view which is required

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to be able to view the profile in the drawing.

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The surface profile samples the surface elevations along its length.

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You can think of the profile view as a special viewport which

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allows us to design our road elevations in a long section.

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We're now going to create a surface

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profile for the mcallister boulevard alignment,

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select the alignment and on the contextual ribbon choose surface profile.

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The alignment setting shows resampling

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along the mcallister boulevard alignment.

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You can set the station range for the sampled surface

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under select surfaces. You'll see a list of surfaces in your model.

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You can select a surface from the draw ring using this button

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or you could select it in the list,

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select the existing ground surface and click add

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the surface is sampled and the surface profile created

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and it's added to the list of profiles for the alignment.

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You can view information about the profile here.

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Notice it has been assigned a deport style of existing ground profile

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select draw in profile view to create a profile view to display the surface profile

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in the crate profile view dialogue.

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Make sure you're using the mcallister boulevard alignment.

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The profile view will be given its own name.

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The automatic name format will call this mcallister boulevard.

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And the next number,

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the profile view has a style.

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We're using major grids and horizontal geometry points.

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You can see a preview of available styles using this. But

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if you have offset profiles,

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for example, a left and right road channel,

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then you could draw these as stacked profiles.

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Click next.

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The station range is derived from the alignment length automatically.

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You can select user specified range. If you want to change it,

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the profile view height is derived from the heights on the sampled surface.

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Again, you can specify different values. If you wish,

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if your profiles cover a wide range of elevations,

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then you could split the view at different

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locations and specify datum for each section.

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The profile display options show whats going to be drawn in the view.

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The update mode is dynamic and so the profile will update automatically.

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You can change the profile style and apply labels to the profile

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data bands can be added to the view.

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We're using the default band set, eg FG, elevations and stations.

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You can import a different set of bands and you can see a preview of the band set here.

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This band set is drawn at the bottom of the profile view

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and contains a single data band

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that will show stations and elevations.

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If we had more than one profile in our view,

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then we could apply hatching to the areas between the profiles.

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This is used to denote areas of cut and fill

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between an existing ground profile and a designed profile.

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Click create profile view

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in the drawing

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zoom out, pick a point to the right of the site.

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This will place the profile view in the drawing

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zoom into the profile view.

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You can see the red dotted line that represents the ground profile.

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The profile view style we have chosen

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is exaggerated vertically.

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We can change the vertical exaggeration factor by editing the style.

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If you select the view, right click and choose edit profile view style

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on the graph tab,

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we can set a new vertical exaggeration,

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try setting it to five to see the result.

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So we can see the alignment and the profile in the same window

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on the view ribbon,

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click on viewport configuration

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and choose two horizontal

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in the bottom viewport zoom into the profile view.

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And in the top view port

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zoom into the alignment in plan,

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go to the analyze ribbon and on the right hand side under inquiry,

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choose station tracker

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select it for all viewpoints.

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Now when we move the cursor in the plan view,

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there's a tracking line showing the location in the profile view.

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Similarly, if I do the same in the profile view,

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the tracking line tracks in the plan view,

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restore the single viewport.

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We're now going to create profile views for the remaining alignments,

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select the sycamore heights alignment. And on the ribbon, choose surface profile,

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select the existing ground surface and choose add

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go straight to draw in profile view.

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In the profile view, dialogue, choose create profile view

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to create a new view of the default settings,

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pick a point underneath the previous profile view to add it to the drawing.

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Do the same for woodside view

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to reposition a view,

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select it and use a single grip to move the view to a new location.

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In prospector, you can manage your profiles and profile views,

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expand the alignments collection and expand centerline alignments.

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All our alignments are organized in this sub folder,

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expand mcallister Boulevard, then expand profiles

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here. You'll see the existing ground surface profile,

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expand profile view and you'll see the profile view you created.

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You can zoom to a view from here

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now that you have created profiles of

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the existing ground surface along your centerline alignments

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and have drawn them in profile views.

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You can plan the vertical design for your roads.