topic Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once in Civil 3D Forum

Automate showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Abdelrahman-Qandeel — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:31:18 GMT

Hey guys

I was wonderng is ther any workflow and/or dynamo script allows me to show all crossing pipes for 100 profileview in a faster and accurate way... may be dynamo script or something

BR,
Abdelrhman Qandeel

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Joe-Bouza — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:46:48 GMT

Yes. Set The style of pipes that cross to only display crossings in PV direction

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Abdelrahman-Qandeel — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:32:32 GMT

thanks a lot, I do know this workflow. however, i need hese pipes to show also on plan view (Top/ 2D view)

i need C3D to figure out these crossing pipes and show all of these pipes in all profile views.

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Joe-Bouza — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:59:22 GMT

That's right in the style composer you set the "view direct" Plan, Profile, Section, Model and you can set the style independent of each other

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Neilw_05 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:47:17 GMT

Joe,

I think the OP issue is about having to use overrides to show pipes using a crossing style vs. showing it projected. As you know, you can't have a style that shows it in profile view both ways. The only way to make a pipe show both ways in profiles is to apply overrides, either projected or crossing. This has been the workflow for as long as I have been using the software. Are you saying there is now a way to have both without overrides? If so I would be thrilled to know about it.

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

lim.wendy — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:50:56 GMT

Neil is correct; the pipe can only have one style assigned to it. When the pipe or a structure is presented in a profile view, there is a possibility to set up a specific style to overwrite the pipe style. It will then control the display of the pipe only in this specific profile view.

The recommended workflow would be to use styles that display the crossing in the "Style Override" column, only in specific situations when needed.

Refer to the following article for more details.

Pipes cannot be displayed in both perpendicular and parallel profile views at the same time in Civil 3D

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Joe-Bouza — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:29:31 GMT

Hi Neil

I am aware.

In my work flow the profiled pipe is the only one being described longitudinally. Agreed, when not the case it is troublesome

I did not get from the OP they had multiple longitudinal pipes to display

Re: Automate showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

Neilw_05 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:31:54 GMT

So one solution is to make a style that shows the pipes as crossings by default, since that is what you want in most cases. Then apply overrides when you need to show them protected. I think that is what Joe was suggesting.

Re: automat showing crossing pipe for all profile view at once

ceethreedee.com — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:31:26 GMT

Just a correction here.. It is possible to show the pipes "Crossing" and "Parallel" in a profile view.. However, I imagine the OP would like to automatically show them as crossing if there were running at a perpendicular angle to the alignment.. That would be a nice feature...

For anyone who is wondering where the "override" style is its in screen shot below. Kind of annoying to work out which one you want though. There is a little tick box to filter crossing but thats not always enough.