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Creating a Quick Profile

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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:

  • 2D or 3D lines or polylines
  • Lot lines
  • Feature lines
  • Survey figures
  • A series of points

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.

To create a quick profile from an object

  1. Click Home tabCreate Design panelProfile drop-downQuick Profile.At the Command prompt, enter CreateQuickProfile.

    On the command line, you are prompted to pick an object.

  2. In the drawing, select a line, polyline, lot line, feature line, or survey figure.
  3. In the Create Quick Profiles dialog box, select the surfaces you want to sample, and the profile and profile view styles.
  4. Optionally, if you selected a 3D object, select Draw 3D Entity Profile to display elevation data for the object in the quick profile and a profile style for the 3D object elevation data.
  5. Click OK.
  6. In the drawing window, click a location for the lower left corner (origin) of the profile view grid.

    The quick profile is drawn.

To create a quick profile by selecting points

  1. Click Home tabCreate Design panelProfile drop-downQuick Profile.At the Command prompt, enter CreateQuickProfile.

    On the command line, you are prompted to pick an object.

  2. Enter p (points).
  3. In the drawing, select a point, and then a second point.
  4. Optionally, select additional points as required.
  5. Press Enter.
  6. In the Create Quick Profiles dialog box, select the surfaces you want to sample, and the profile and profile view styles.
  7. In the drawing window, click a location for the lower left corner (origin) of the profile view grid.

    The quick profile is drawn.

Ribbon

Click Home tabCreate Design panelProfile drop-downQuick Profile

Menu

Click Profiles menu Quick Profile

Command Line

CreateQuickProfile

Dialog Box

Create Quick Profiles Dialog Box


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