Section Views

[cecjack]

I am trying to create section views to track beach erosion. I have created an alignment and sample lines successfully. The shorter sections look as they should. The longer sections are a mirror of themselves (ex: a section that should be 529' in length is drawn as 1058'). Is this a matter of needing to create a corridor and going the other processes that normally have to be done for a road or is there something else I am missing here?

[KirkNoonan]

It would be helpful if you could post a picture depicting what the problem is

[neilyj666]

No need for a corridor - as long as you have the sample lines and have identified the surface to sample you should be good to go but as the other poster said we can't really see what's going on without a picture or dwg file and so can't be much more help at the moment

[cecjack]

Here is a look at the sections. As you can see the bottom has data bands that do not appear in the top section even though the style has not been changed as well as the section name being offset.

[KirkNoonan]

I looked at your file. There don't seem to be any sample lines, sections or section views in it anywhere. There is a polyline that is roughly perpendicular to the alignment. I drew a couple of quick profiles along those lines and they seem to be what one would expect to see.

[cecjack]

I think that was from yesterday. Let me try this. There are definitley sample lines in my drawing.

[KirkNoonan · Accepted solution]

Double check your offset side. You have a few sample lines with a left offset where it looks like it should be a right offset. Not sure why the bad ones were doubling their length or even why they were showing data where there is none, but if you swap the non-zero left offsets for a right offset instead, and adjust the offsets in the section view, everything looks fine.

[cecjack]

Thank you very much. For some reason when I created the sample lines they were created with a left offset only instead of just a right offset. Had to go to sample line properties and change all of the bigger x-sections. Still getting data bands where they are not wanted but I can fix that easy enough. Must be another one of those quirks that this program ahs become known for. Thank you again.