Making cross section drawing for gravel piles (2013 Civil 3d)

[Anonymous]

Well i just got a job drafting to learn and i know how to do some basic things.

My problem now is that i have piles of gravel & sand, i got the volume on each pile for and now want to make a cross section drawing showing the elevations on them. I went to section views and create mutiple views but it asks me for a aligment, but i just want to base the drawing off the contours of the piles (elevations)

[wfberry]

At the top right of your Civil 3D program is a "?" mark.  Select this and do all of the Tutorials that are listed.  When you get done, go back and do the Surfaces again.

Bill

[ToddRogers-WPM · Accepted solution]

Draw an AutoCAD line through the section you want elevations.  Click on the line, right-click, and do a Quick Profile.

[mathewkol]

Todd's suggestion is the easiest, but you need to know it's temporary.  You'll see a seciton where the line was drawn, but when you save or close the file, that seciton (profile) will disappear.  If you want permanent secitons, you need to defined an alignment and sample lines and then create section views.

Like Bill said, it's probably best to do the tutorials, you don't need them all, byut for now, the ones on secitons would be prudent.

[neilyj666]

Actually the quick profile can be exploded and it then becomes a persistent object. This is a useful technique for quick and dirty sections but alignment based methods are more versatile but take more setting up

[CHADBORDELON8063]

 He's was probably looking for a quick solution from some of us who have been through these simple growing pains. After the instructions,  suggest the tutorials.

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