Exercise 1: Creating And Displaying Surface Profiles With Offsets - Autodesk CIVIL3D - CIVILDESIGNCOMP 2007 SLM CD Tutorials Manual

Exercise 1: Creating and Displaying Surface Profiles with
Offsets
In this exercise, you will create a surface profile from an existing surface.
After creating the profile and several offsets, you will create a profile view to
display the profiles.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Creating Surface
Profiles.
Create centerline and offset surface profiles
1 Open Profile-2A.dwg, which is located in the
819).
The drawing contains an existing ground surface and two horizontal
alignments. Examine the alignments. The red one with curves is named
Ridge Road, and represents a proposed road centerline. The other is named
Power Line, and represents a proposed power line offset about 25 feet
from the road.
2 Click Home tab
Surface Profile.
3 In the Create Profile From Surface dialog box, under Alignment, select
Ridge Road.
4 Click Add.
5 Select the Sample Offsets check box. In the field next to the check box,
enter 25,-25 (including comma).
This field enables you to specify that profiles be created on either side of
the centerline. The left offset (–25) will mark the approximate location
of the power line. If you wanted more offsets, you could enter a series of
them here. Use positive numbers for right offsets and negative numbers
for left offsets, with values separated by commas.
6 Click Add.
7 In the Profile List, in the Description column, enter the following
descriptions:
EG - Surface: Centerline
EG - Surface - 25.000: Right Offset
EG - Surface - -25.000: Left Offset
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