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Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:02:52 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am doing a job which I braught a Topo survey into Civil 3D and made it a TIN. I already changed from feet and inches to metres in the settings. However, when making a profile view of a road, the scale of the profile is not accurate. The figure showing 1.5240 show be showing 5 to match. Can anyone help out as I am new to the software.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

VincentSheehan — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:25:21 GMT

Check the profile view settings. It looks like the profile view is in feet and the dimension (1.524) is in meters.

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engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:35:40 GMT

Hi Vincent,

I cannot find where to look in the profile view to determine if it is in feet or not.

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engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:42:51 GMT

Hi Vincent,

I noticed my intervals are in feet while everything else is in metres.

However, I cannot find a way to change this back to metres.

We only use metres and mm in Ireland

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:44:23 GMT

The profile view STYLE controls what the Profile View looks like and that includes the spacing between the grid lines.

I think you'd be better off using a template that is intended for metric and then importing your survey and creating your profile.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:46:40 GMT

I agree too,

However, I am the only person in my company using civil 3d.

Is there a template online which I could download or would I have to get onto another company to share.

Thanks for your reply

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:48:19 GMT

The grid spacing is found on the Horizontal Axes & Vertical Axes tabs of the Profile View Style dialog box.

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Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:51:44 GMT

As you cans see in attached screenshot, my intervals are in feet while everything else isnit, unlike yours.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:52:17 GMT

Your C3D installation should have come with Imperial and Metric templates installed by default. I don't know for sure where the default is and because my company doesn't use the OOTB templates (we have custom ones), I don't have them installed and can't look up their location.

Do a search for *.dwt. That's the extension used for Acad templates.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:54:13 GMT

@engineeringNLTNM wrote:
As you cans see in attached screenshot, my intervals are in feet while everything else isnit, unlike yours.

I realized my file is different. It appeared that you wanted to know where to set the spacing for the grid lines. That's all I was trying to show you.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:01:06 GMT

Yes I understand, isint it strange that they mix feet and metres for profile settings. You would think it would all be the same. Would you know how to change the interval units from inches to metres as this is whats catching me I have realised? I am also looking for the metric template as you suggested.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:05:18 GMT

@engineeringNLTNM wrote:
I agree too,
However, I am the only person in my company using civil 3d.
Is there a template online which I could download or would I have to get onto another company to share.
Thanks for your reply

I was able to find this file. It's what autodesk provides for learning to work with Corridors. But it's in metric -- just save it as a template.

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:10:47 GMT

I just took another look at your screenshot and see what you're talking about now. I'm not sure where that particular setting is. The fact that there are little settings all over the place that would need to be updated is the reason I suggested starting over with a metric template. Hopefully the file I provided above will help you with that (just delete everything out of it before saving it as a template).

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

engineeringNLTNM — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:14:51 GMT

Thank you very much you have been very helpful, AutoCAD is so much easier 😛

Re: Civil 3D Profile View Scale Not Accurate

doni49 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:47:14 GMT

Happy to help. Did that get you what you needed?

Edit: Never mind. I hadn't gone back to the message list yet. When I did so, I saw that you had marked it as solved. So now I know the answer to my question.