This tutorial demonstrates how to validate that your profile design meets criteria specified by a local agency.
To create a profile using design criteria, you use the same basic workflow that you use to create a profile without design criteria. During profile creation, you can select a design criteria file, from which you can specify the minimum K tables to which the profile must comply. If the parent alignment also uses design criteria, the design criteria file that is specified for the alignment is applied to the profile by default. You can specify a different design criteria file for the profile, if desired.
The design criteria file specifies minimum K values at given speeds for stopping, passing, and headlight sight distances. You can create custom design checks to validate profile design criteria other than minimum K values. To apply a design check to a profile, you must add it to a design check set.
For detailed exercises on creating design checks and modifying the design criteria file, see the Designing an Alignment that Refers to Local Standards tutorial.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Criteria-Based Profile Design.
Topics in this section
- Exercise 1: Specifying Profile Design Criteria
In this exercise, you will specify minimum standards for a layout profile.
- Exercise 2: Drawing a Profile that Refers to Design Criteria
In this exercise, you will draw a profile that refers to specified minimum standards.
- Exercise 3: Viewing and Correcting Profile Design Criteria Violations
In this exercise, you will check the profile design for criteria violations, and then learn how to correct violations.