Slope Direction

[palan_cosmin]

Hello!
I have a polyline of several pieces.
And I want to make the slope sign from this polyline. But I have segments of the acute polyline have opposite meanings. I would not like to break the polyline into pieces and the change with the Reverse command does not work either.
I think I used other commands in autocad, to arrange the slope sign in one direction.
What would those commands be?|
Thank you!

[CGBenner]

@palan_cosmin 

Hello and welcome!  Can you share the file that you are working on here, or at least some screen shots of what you are trying to do?  That would help others to offer you some suggestions.  Thank you!

[palan_cosmin]

[Kent1Cooper]

Assuming you mean the alternating-length short perpendicular lines on the purple path sort of through the middle of the image, then if that's done as a linetype, you're out of luck.  There is no way to alternate the direction they project within the same object -- you will need to Break the path into separate pieces.

I suppose a routine could be written to add those slope-direction indicators as separate LINE objects, with some kind of User selection of the path, where to start and end Lines pointing to one side and which side to point to, so that different stretches of the path could be marked to different sides.  But then if you changed the route of the path, you'd need to eliminate the former markers and run it all again.  
And it would take more memory.

Very closely related is SlopeStrokes.lsp, >here<.  It won't do what's in your image, because it needs two path objects to work between, but it shows something like how the separate-line-pointers approach could be done.

[palan_cosmin]

Hello,
I am referring to the magenta polyline, which has the slope sign, and which alternates along it.
I used the Reverse command, but it doesn't help.
I searched on the net at some point and I think I found the command/commands in autocad or maybe I'm wrong?

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@palan_cosmin wrote:

.... I searched on the net at some point and I think I found the command/commands in autocad or maybe I'm wrong?

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Yes, I think you're wrong, unless perhaps there's some specialty function in the Civil3D overlay program that is not in "vanilla" AutoCAD.  You might try asking and/or Searching over there.