Hi,
Another two solutions:
1 With the tools you already have.
Join the points with a polyline, or collection of lines and define an
alignment from the data.
Print out the chainages of the vertices and then open the Vertical Grading
Editor and enter the data by hand,
or enter the data into a file with Notepad and sample your profile "From
File"
2 Commercial solution
CADApps has a commercial program which will read point data for points in
the vicinity of an alignment and transpose the point levels to an EG profile
for the alignment.
As always with commercial solutions you should assess the time you spend
doing a process. If in 6 months the number of hours multiplied by your
chargeout rate exceeds the software cost, then it is probably economic to
buy the software. With a solution like this, you could assume zero training
time and effectively zero operating time for the comparison.
--
Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
"Matt Kolberg" wrote in message
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> As far as I can tell you can't create a profile in LDD without a surface
> unlesss there's a third party application out there that can do it.
>
> I have, on many occasions, had to create profiles given only one line of
> survey points. Maybe you're in this boat, maybe not, but this is how I
> managed it:
>
> 1. Connect the points with a 3d polyline either by using the "create by
> points" method in the Terrain Model Explorer (most desirable if the points
> are sequential), or by the "Create by elevation" in the Terrain-3d
polylines
> pulldown.
> 2. Offset this polyline a nominal distance on both sides (1m does the
trick
> for me) using "Create curb" in the Terrain-3d polylines pulldown. Make
sure
> you choose a "relative" elevation difference of 0.
> 3. Use these 3 polylines as breaklines in your new surface.
>
> Matt Kolberg
>
> "bigred1234" wrote in message
> news:20532535.1096928435202.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum2.autodesk.com...
> > I am trying to create a profile by just using the points and not
creating
> a surface, is there an easy way to do that? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>