Looking for help with Road Section View Style

[Anonymous]

I sure could use some help with getting my section views to work out and be readable. I'm still trying to make sense of civil 3d and how the styles are controlled. I'm using Civil 3d 2012

I've got a new drawing started with the default template. I imported some points, I've got 2 TIN surfaces and a volume surface, an alignment and my sample lines. Once I had all that I was able to make a section view but the scale of all the labels is too large.

[Anonymous]

I've been playing with the settings and now It looks ok, but the surfaces don't show up now?! Help

[sboon]

The elevations shown in your section view makes me wonder if your sample lines include any surface data.  Can you post the drawing?

[Anonymous]

Ya I've done something to make the surfaces unavailable to the cross section wizard somehow. All I wanted to do was change the existing ground to a dashed line and make the labels a resonable size. Here's the drawing.

[Anonymous]

Well, I'm out of Ideas, sure hope I can get a kick the right direction. Thanks for the help.

[sboon · Accepted solution]

There is no section data in your sample lines.  I would bet that you deleted the other views with a crossing window, which means that you deleted the data also.

If you expand the alignment in the Toolspace then you can right click on the sample line group to get the properties dialog open.  The Sections tab will allow you to sample more source data, and then you can recreate the section views.

[Anonymous]

Yes that worked! I had no idea that deleting the section views erases the data sample. Thank you for troubleshooting my drawing, you really bailed me out.

Justin

[JeffPaulsen]

You can erase the section views without erasing the sampled data. But you have to make sure your are only selecting the views not the sampled lines.

[sboon]

The same rule applies to profiles also.

[mathewkol]

When you want to delete section views it's usually best to delete the section view group in the Prospector. I almost never delete views using autocad erase.