Creating Alignment with stations

[RONNIEJ]

Good Day and thank you in advance for taking your time to read my post and giving any advice possible. 

I am new to Civil 3D. Experienced with other cad platforms. 

My question is, can I create an alignment based on given station numbers and elevations? 

I have drawn lines before and turned them into alignments. If I am given a table of stations and elevations with both vertical and horizontal curves what is the best way for me to go about creating an alignment?

[rl_jackson]

The short answer here is you need to create a Profile. Alignments are 2 dimensional line work that can be used to read (sample) the existing surface (TIN). Once you have a profile of the existing surface along your alignment, you can develop the vertical curves from that data. They work in concert, EG surface, Alignment, Profile, Cross-sections.