Exercise 5: Viewing Pipe Network Parts in a Section View

In this exercise, you will view the pipe network parts in a section view.

This exercise continues from Exercise 4: Overriding the Style of a Pipe Network Part in a Profile View.

Create a sample line

Note:

This exercise uses Pipe Networks-3B.dwg with the modifications you made in the previous exercise, or you can open Pipe Networks-3C from the tutorials drawings folder.

1. In the drawing, zoom to the area around station 12+60 on the ROAD1 alignment.
2. Click Home tab Profile & Section Views panel Sample Lines Find.
3. Press Enter when prompted to select an alignment.
4. In the Select Alignment dialog box, select ROAD1. Click OK.
5. In the Create Sample Line Group dialog box, click OK.
6. On the command line, enter 1260.
7. For the left swath width, enter 20.
8. For the right swath width, enter 20.

   The sample line is created at the specified station.

9. Press Enter to end the sample line creation command.

Create a section view

1. Click Home tab Profile & Section Views panel Section Views drop-down Create Section View Find.
2. In the Create Section View wizard, click Section Display Options.
3. On the Section Display Options page, in the Select Sections To Draw list, in the ROAD1_SURF row, click the Change Labels cell.
4. In the Select Style Set dialog box, select No Labels. Click OK.
5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 to apply the No Labels label style set to the entries in the Change Labels column.
6. Click Create Section View.
7. Zoom and pan to a location for the section view.
8. Click to create the section view at your selected location.
9. If a warning event is displayed, close the Event Viewer window.
10. Zoom and pan to the section view to see the pipe network parts in the section view.

To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 6: Creating Pipe and Structure Tables.