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Civil 3D - Can i associate a different alignment to a profile?

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StumpMasterFlex
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Civil 3D - Can i associate a different alignment to a profile?

New 3d'er here. 

 

1/ I have spent alot of time setting up profiles so all the information on the profile are dynamic and to our company standards.  I have created the alignments along the road centrelines and created the profiles for those alignments.  Wouldn't you know it they made changes to the site plan.  When I click on the alignment and select Edit Aligment Geometry, the Alignment Layout Tools come up but I can't select any of the tools to edit the alignment.  Am I missing something.

 

2/ Can I create a new alignment called street A (revised) and associate it to the profile currently associated to street A (orig) so I don't have to rebuild all the profile labels etc?

Kindest Regards
Michael,
Civil Design Technologist (Exploration Technologist)
Civil 3D 2013
Windows 8
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
32. GB
64-bit Oepration System, x64-based processor
No Pen or Touch Input
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troma
in reply to: StumpMasterFlex

Data shortcut?
Locked layer?

Something is stopping you from editing; you should be able to do it from that toolbar.

Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 3 of 8
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: StumpMasterFlex

as troma stated you may be trying to edit a DS or a locked layer.

 

as for revisions: I would save historical copies of the original profile and keep the status quo for the sak of any associated c3d objects

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

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Message 4 of 8
StumpMasterFlex
in reply to: troma

Thank you for your response.  Nothing was locked and I had no data shortcuts.  I closed Civil 3D and went back in but it would not work.  I checked child over-rides, locked items in the settings etc.  Then I decide to completely shut down my computer and log back in and it worked.

 

As for my second questions.  Can you change an existing profiles parent alignment?  Say changing the profile from Street A (Original) alignment to  Street A (Revised) alignment?  Seeing as it is a parent alignment I would assume not but I thought I would ask.

Kindest Regards
Michael,
Civil Design Technologist (Exploration Technologist)
Civil 3D 2013
Windows 8
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
32. GB
64-bit Oepration System, x64-based processor
No Pen or Touch Input
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Jeff_M
in reply to: StumpMasterFlex


@StumpMasterFlex wrote:

 Can you change an existing profiles parent alignment?  Say changing the profile from Street A (Original) alignment to  Street A (Revised) alignment?  Seeing as it is a parent alignment I would assume not but I thought I would ask.


Yes, but not within the drawing. Export LandXML the 2 alignments and profile. Edit the LandXML file with an xml editor (or notepad. I use XMLNotepad from Microsoft), copy the profile node from the one alignment to the other alignment, in the copied node edit the name to match the new alignment name and profile name to a unique name. Delete the old alignment node, Save & close the xml file. Now import the LandXML file, create a ProfileView for the second alignment.

 

 

Jeff_M, also a frequent Swamper
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neilyj666
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You don't give your Civil 3D version but I have had the situation (in 2011 and 2012) where I could get the Geometry editing toolbar up on screen but all the editing tools were greyed out and the only workaround was as you have found i.e. reboot

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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StumpMasterFlex
in reply to: neilyj666

I am running 2013.  And that is exactly what i had to do.  Thanks for the help.

Kindest Regards
Michael,
Civil Design Technologist (Exploration Technologist)
Civil 3D 2013
Windows 8
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
32. GB
64-bit Oepration System, x64-based processor
No Pen or Touch Input
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StumpMasterFlex
in reply to: Jeff_M

Thank you I see if I have any luck with this. 

Kindest Regards,

Michael

Kindest Regards
Michael,
Civil Design Technologist (Exploration Technologist)
Civil 3D 2013
Windows 8
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
32. GB
64-bit Oepration System, x64-based processor
No Pen or Touch Input

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