About Creating a Quick Profile

View surface elevation data along an object or between two points.

Use the quick profile functionality to generate elevation data using a few quick steps before you create a detailed design.

You can create quick profiles along many object types:

These profiles are not saved with the drawing.

You can control which surfaces are sampled in the quick profile, the style used to display the profile of each surface, and the profile view style.

To create a profile that you can use again, create an alignment at the location of interest and use it to generate a standard profile.

After you create a quick profile, extract information from it using the Inquiry tool. You can select and move a quick profile. Use the object context menu to change the style of one of its profiles or the profile view.

Note: To simplify working with quick profiles, open two viewports before you create a quick profile. Use one viewport to display the plan view and the other viewport to display the quick profiles.