Creating Profiles

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About Creating Profiles
Using profiles, you can view changes in elevation along a horizontal alignment.
To Create a Surface Profile Along an Alignment
About Creating Layout Profiles
Create layout profiles to represent designed elevations along an alignment.
To Create a Layout Profile
About the Format Requirements of Profile Files
Use profile files to record layout data for points of vertical intersection (PVIs) in a profile.
To Create a Profile From a Profile File
About Creating a Profile by Best Fit
Create a profile that follows the most logical path through a series of surface profiles, feature lines, COGO points, or AutoCAD 3D polylines, points, or blocks.
To Create a Profile by Best Fit
To Create Profile References
About Copying a Profile
Copy a layout profile or a static surface profile. Use the copy to create a profile or replace an existing one.
To Copy a Profile
About Creating a Quick Profile
View surface elevation data along an object or between two points.
To Create Quick Profiles
To Create a Superimposed Profile
About Creating Offset Profiles
You can create dynamic offset profiles using the same command you use to create offset alignments, Create Offset Alignment.
To Create and Modify Dynamic Offset Profiles
You can create dynamic offset profiles using the same command you use to create offset alignments. A single default cross slope is specified when you create the offset profiles. After the offset profiles are created, you can assign different cross slope regions to the profiles by modifying the profile properties.

Parent topic: Profiles