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create profile from autocad longsection?

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Message 1 of 13
Bennos1
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create profile from autocad longsection?

Hi

i have been sent a drawing showing 130 metres of design kerb and gutter and a longsection of it. This longsection drawing is a standard autocad drawing not civil 3d. I have created the alignment quickly enough. But the longsection supplied is a 2d polyline representing a profile at a 1:20 vertical scale. Is there anyway i can turn this into a c3d profile for my alignment? See attached drawing.
The reason I need to do this is because I'm a surveyor and what to upload the alignment and profile to my instrument for setout.
I was hoping to be able to be able to select the polyline, nominate the vertical scale and height at a station and c3d would create the profile from the polyline.

Regards,

Ben
C3d 2010
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Message 2 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

Ben you sent a sheet file with xrefs. there is nothing in your attachment.

Without looking, the profile by layout commands offer "convert acad
entities" this might help you.


Long Section... where is this vernacular common? where I'm from we call it a
profile

Joe
Message 3 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

Joe, if you install the "British English" version of Civil 3D you'll find:
Profile = Long Section
Chainage = Station
Curb = Kerb
Slope = cross fall

and a number of other changes in terms.

Cheers,

Peter Funk
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 4 of 13
dnl999
in reply to: Bennos1

If I understand you correctly you can change the profile view scale to 1:20 and then copy the profile polyline to a match point.
You can then explode the polyline and use the "add lines & splines to a profile" from the "profile layout tools" toolbar.
I am not sure if there is a way to create a profile directly from the 2d polyline. Maybe in 2010 ?
Message 5 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

I've always preferred the King's English...

Matthew Anderson, PE CFM



Peter Funk - Autodesk wrote:
> Joe, if you install the "British English" version of Civil 3D you'll find:
> Profile = Long Section
> Chainage = Station
> Curb = Kerb
> Slope = cross fall
>
> and a number of other changes in terms.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Funk
> Autodesk, Inc.
>
Message 6 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

Thank you Peter. I knew it was a different Locale

Joe
Message 7 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

Correct
Message 8 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

The other option are to rough in by layout or create an ASCII file of
Station elevations and import
Message 9 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

OOps 3. data entry pvi sta elevation
Message 10 of 13
Bennos1
in reply to: Bennos1

Thanks for your responses,

Joe, I'm in Australia and some of the terms Peter lists are the terms we use. I do try to think "in American" when I ask a question to help people can understand it. Please find attached the binded drawing, but I'll try yours and others suggestions..

Thanks

Ben
Message 11 of 13
Anonymous
in reply to: Bennos1

Hi Ben,

Be proud of being Australian and post in the terminology we use.

It doesn't hurt readers here to learn that there are more than one way
of expressing a meaning and that the USA way is not always automatically
the best.

Remember it's the country which doesn't know how long a foot is and it
measures earthworks volumes in terms of the a unit invented for
measuring lengths of cloth and based on the distance from some English
King's nose to the tip of one of his fingers. 🙂 but true


Regards,


Laurie Comerford


bennos1 wrote:
> Thanks for your responses,
>
> Joe, I'm in Australia and some of the terms Peter lists are the terms we use. I do try to think "in American" when I ask a question to help people can understand it. Please find attached the binded drawing, but I'll try yours and others suggestions..
>
> Thanks
>
> Ben
Message 12 of 13
ACADuser
in reply to: Bennos1

Back in 2001 where I worked we were required to submit work to the state transportation department in metric. Somewhere along the line polititions and contractors squared off then back to the same confusing measurement system we went.

>...a unit invented for measuring lengths of cloth and based on the distance from some English King's nose to the tip of one of his fingers

It makes you wonder how they planned on preserving that unit of measure. I guess that explains why they invented the yard stick.

For those that don't know (including me - I had to look this up): A meter is defined as the distance travelled by light in free space in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second.
ACADuser
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Message 13 of 13
auzzie2776
in reply to: Bennos1

im a hard charging, australian rugby player living in the states also (st petersburg), proud as all can be to be an australian. Ive found throught my travels of the world, two types of people in this world - australians and people who want to be australian !!

cheers

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