Design Profile will not draw in Profile View

[dfischer]

I created an alignment. I then proceeded to create a profile from a surface from the alignment. Then when using "Profile Creation Tools" it would not allow me to draw in a simple tangent design grade.

Solution: Make sure you draw you grade in the direction your stationing is labeled in your profile. Problem Solved. Happy designing.

[Victor_Cortez · Accepted solution]

It seems legit to me, I would mark it as solution so if anyone else is searching for this issue in Google, this post will show as solved, making it easier to find.

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@Anonymous wrote:

I created an alignment. I then proceeded to create a profile from a surface from the alignment. Then when using "Profile Creation Tools" it would not allow me to draw in a simple tangent design grade.

Solution: Make sure you draw you grade in the direction your stationing is labeled in your profile. Problem Solved. Happy designing.

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Since it was the first post I was not able to mark it as solution, I quote dfischer´s post and mark this one as solution, however all the hard work and merits should go to dfischer

[troma]

Yep, profiles can only go in one direction, the same direction as the alignment.
Only exception I can think of is a superimposed profile, which can backtrack on itself.

[Anonymous]

Good response, but in my case the Profile Creation Tools dialog displays but it is not active. So I can't even initiate the process of drawing the tangents. Appears there is a command that's supposed to come before that.

[dfischer]

If your Profile Creation Tools are greyed out and not active, it is likely because your drawing is corrupt. I used to have that problem more until I used the "Data Shortcut" file setup. Once I began putting my Existing Ground in one drawing and Data Shortcutting back to it, I have not had any issues with C3D. I believe you get too much going on all at once for some of the older computers to handle as well. I rarely used the automatic update until I got a new computer.

Try creating a new project, turn on all the laters and do a copy and past to original coordinates. Then, if everything looks like it is working move forward.

Good Luck

[Anonymous]

You are right. I had too many items/apps running at the same time. Solved the problem by rebooting the system. Thanks.

[saifumk8]

I'm wondering how this message become marked as "solved". 

[dfischer]

Because it solved the issues on my system and others as well......