These tutorials will get you started viewing and designing the elevation profile of land surfaces along a horizontal alignment.
All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorials drawings folder . If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Tutorial Data folder so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding the Profile Object.
Topics in this section
- Tutorial: Designing Simple Profiles
In this tutorial, you will create simple existing ground and layout profiles for an alignment.
- Tutorial: Using Surface Profiles
This tutorial demonstrates how to create surface profiles and display them in a profile view.
- Tutorial: Using Layout Profiles
This tutorial demonstrates how to create and edit layout profiles, which are often called design profiles or finished grade profiles.
- Tutorial: Designing a Profile that Refers to Local Standards
This tutorial demonstrates how to validate that your profile design meets criteria specified by a local agency.
- Tutorial: Displaying and Modifying Profile Views
This tutorial demonstrates how to change the appearance of profile views.
- Tutorial: Working with Data Bands
This tutorial demonstrates how to add and change the appearance of data bands in a profile view.