Slope Symbols for 3d Polylines

[kmedeiros1]

I use slope symbols instead of contours to keep my maps less busy.  Unfortunetly I can only change my cut style and fill style to slope symbols with grading by right clicking on the little diamond in the grading and selecting grading properties.

I have created a surface with 3d poly lines not by creating grading and got contours that way, How can I create the slope symbols in a surface.  I tried xploding them and then creating a block and using the measure tool on the 3d polylines but it doesnt do anything. 

Picture 01 is the contours

Picture 1 is the contours turned off and cut/fill styles turned to slope symbols.

i am using civil 3d 2010

thanks

[tcorey]

This might not be the solution you're looking for, but it would be a time saver if you have a pretty good stretch of grading to mark.

You could do this with a simple corridor using LinkWidthandSlope subassemblies. Depending on how perpendicular the slope markers need to be, make a fake alignment that runs roughly parallel to the feature lines (or else spend the time to stepped offset, explode, convert to 2d, etc if you have to be perfect.) Make a profile that runs generally along the same elevation range as the feature lines.

Create an assembly that uses LinkWidthandSlope to target from the fake centerline to the first feature line. The next LinkWidthandSlope subassy will target the outside feature line.

After you run the corridor, go to Corridor Properties and then Slopes tab. Add your slope pattern. The program will ask you to pick which corridor feature lines to use. Pick them.

If those feature lines change, just rebuild the corridor and the slope markers will update (or leave the corridor on rebuild automatic, that's your call.)

Best regards,

Tim

[Neilw_05]

How about the old school way of just manually placing blocks as needed?

[Joe-Bouza]

or you could use the grading i lieu of the 3dplines? Seems to me if you can create the 3d plines then you could create the grading, no?

[Joe-Bouza]

What happens if the TOS and BOS are connected FL's that you infill and grab the diamond?

[MikeEvansUK]

This is a pet hate of mine. You can't create these manually with existing lines. I have asked before for a tool or how (if) the survey feature does it.

Why go through the riggers of recreating it for the sake of a few blocks.

I have wrote a tool which kind of works for this. Perhaps I need to learn to publish it too. I'll look into it when I can.. Watch this space. Ps any proceeds will go to my daughter.

[neilyj666]

I've used this which works fairly well most of the time - not tried with 3D polys though

http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/CIV3D/2014/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aSlo...

[juanmagmen]

I use leaders with arrow "Datum triangle filled" and "Datum triangle", and place them where I want it, it takes time, but you have more control over it.

[TerryDotson]

There is a tool in Gizmo3D that creates these by simply picking the lower and upper 3D Figures (3dPolys, FeatureLines).  Here is a Dialog & Graphic Example.

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