Answer Day - Profile View - Stationing Right to Left

[blippold]

I have an alignment running East to West with the stationing running East to West, or Right to Left. When I create a plan and profile viewframe, and create a plan and profile sheet, the plan view shows the plan running West to East with my north arrow pointing down. I then have to rotate my plan viewframe 180 degrees to get it to display correctly as stationing Right to Left.

Anyone else have this problem. It is probably a setting in the Create Multiple View command but I haven't found any yet.

I am running Civil 3D 2017 SP 1.1

[TimYarris]

Hello,

The profile view style has a Profile View Direction option to control this. When you create your view frames, all should be well if the profile view style you select should have this set to Right to Left.

[blippold]

I am using the Right to Left style. The profile view creates and displays correctly, but the Plan view does not. The origin point of the View Frames continues to be the lower left corner of the View Frame. But when creating Right to Left, the origin point should be upper right.

[TimYarris]

Sorry we didn't discuss the plan portion of your question. 

Try using a station equation for the alignment. I was able to get the plan viewports to lay out as you describe by using a station equation. I created the equation at the end station of the alignment, then set it to decreasing back the alignment start station. 

[sboon]

Hello Tim,

I am assuming that this would be a temporary application of the station equation, for production of the sheets only.  Once that is done the OP could remove the equation - correct?

Steve
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[nzeeben]

Hey Steve,

As I suggested this when Tim was discussing the issue today I'll respond.  Once you had the layout I suppose you probably could remove the equation, but there is really no difference from the alignment perspective assuming this is the only equation in play, it would really be up to the user if they felt like they needed to remove the equation or not.

[BrianHailey]

Nick,

let me see see if I understand your recommendation. Create the alignment from west to east (as a senior engineer once told me, "That's the way God meant for alignments to go!"), apply a station equation so the stationing runs east to west, and create the sheets from that?

If that's the case, then you would want to keep the station equation in place. 

[nzeeben]

Hey Brian,

Yes reverse it, the station equation and get sheets as desired.

[Anonymous]

I have created an alignment that goes right to left, for a gravity pipe system.  I want to set up plan and profile sheets for this alignment, and I have tried the suggestion of entering in a station equation.  My results are the same either way, and I get an upside down view frame, resulting in an upside down plan view.  

I have noticed that, if I rotate the view frame 180 degrees, the plan comes in nicely, but then my profile view lines up on either the start or the end and then instead decides to move off the page, out of the viewport.  It appears as if it does not proceed in the same direction as the plan view.  This happens regardless of the profile view direction designation (right to left or left right).  

My only fix for the profile view at this point is to check the align profile at center, but I feel there is possibly a much easier fix for this other than this long, drawn out, band-aid process.  Any suggestions?

[hossein.kosariZCK2V]

Hi,

I have exactly this issue that you had. Have you found any solution for this issue?

thanks

[blippold]

I still have not found an adequate solution to the problem. It seems like this should be a simple problem but no such luck.