Creating Stacked Profile Views

2012-03-14

Product Documentation

Intermediate

Create stacked profile views to display a centerline profile and related offset profiles in vertically arranged profile views.

Each profile view in the series or stack is an independent profile view object. Each profile view object appears in Prospector, and you can modify the properties of each object independently.

Tutorial Exercise: Creating Stacked Profile Views

To create stacked profile views

Click Home tabProfile & Section Views panelProfile View drop-downCreate Profile View .At the Command prompt, enter CreateProfileView.
OR

Click Home tabProfile & Section Views panelProfile View drop-downCreate Multiple Profile Views .At the Command prompt, enter CreateMultipleProfileView.
In the Create Profile View Wizard wizard, on the General page, select the Show Offset Profiles By Vertically Stacking Profile Views check box.
The link to the Stacked Profile page is displayed on the left.
On the General page, specify the alignment name and profile view name and description.

Note
Click Create Profile Views at any time to accept the current settings.
On the Station Range page, specify the starting and ending stations.
On the Profile View Height page, specify the profile view height and any split profile options, including split stations and styles for individual stations.

Note
If the profile elevation values are relatively consistent, under the Profile View Datum By option, select Mean Elevation. The Mean Elevation option vertically centers the profile line in the profile view, creating equal space above and below the profile line.
On the Stacked Profile page, specify the number of stacked profile views, gap between the views, and the profile view style to use in the top, middle, and bottom views.

Note
The top and bottom profile views can use separate styles. All profile views between the top and bottom must be created with the same style.
On the Profile Display Options page, select a profile view from the Select Stacked View To Specify Options For list.
In the Specify Profile Display Options table, specify the profiles to be drawn as well as their styles, labels, and layers.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each profile view in the stack.
On the Pipe Network Display page, specify which pipe networks or parts will be drawn in each stacked profile view. Follow the workflow described in steps 7 through 9 to specify the options for each stacked profile view.
On the Data Bands page, specify the data band sets and their properties.
The data bands will appear at the top or bottom of the stack.
For multiple, stacked profile views, on the Multiple Plot Options page, specify how the multiple profile views will be laid out.
Click Create Profile Views.
In the drawing window, click a location for the origin of the stack of profile views.

Note
The profile view grid origin is determined by the Start Corner setting on the Multiple Plot Options page.