This tutorial demonstrates how to change the appearance of profile views.
You may change profile view style, add labels and data bands, split a profile view, and create multiple profile views to suit your production requirements.
The profile view style controls the format for titles, axis annotation, and other elements of a profile view.
Multiple profile views are useful for plotting short segments of a profile in separate profile view grids of a consistent length and vertical scale.
A profile can be split within either a single or multiple profile view. Splitting a profile allows a profile view to display a profile elevation range that is greater than the profile view’s specified height.
Multiple profile views are most useful when you are creating final construction documents from your design. For best results, design your profile in a single profile view, then use the plan production tools to create multiple profile views.
When you must annotate centerline and offset profiles extensively, you can create stacked profile views, in which each profile line is displayed in a separate profile view grid.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Working with Profile Views.
Topics in this section
- Exercise 1: Editing the Profile View Style
In this exercise, you will learn how to change the data displayed in a profile view.
- Exercise 2: Adding Hatch Patterns Between Profiles
In this exercise, you will illustrate the cut and fill regions along an alignment by applying hatch patterns between the surface and layout profiles.
- Exercise 3: Projecting Objects onto a Profile View
In this exercise, you will project multi-view blocks, COGO points, and 3D polylines from plan view onto a profile view.
- Exercise 4: Splitting a Profile View
In this exercise, you will split a profile view so that the full elevation range of a layout profile fits in a shorter profile view.
- Exercise 5: Creating Multiple Profile Views
In this exercise, you will produce a set of profile views to display short, successive segments of a profile.
- Exercise 6: Creating Stacked Profile Views
In this exercise, you will create a series of three profile views that contain a centerline and left and right offset profiles.