How can I dynamically connect these Alignments

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How can I dynamically connect these Alignments

Anonymous
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Attached is a snippet showing road centerline Alignments (A B & C). I want to dynamically link these alignments together vertically so their profiles match. The white arrows or blue hatched areas are the intersections I want to connect. The second attachment shows Alignment A & B's profiles. The magenta lines and white arrows are where I want to lock my profiles together. Is it possible to link Alignments/profiles together at their intersection points?

 

Any information helps,

Thanks!

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guanleng.sim
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Hi @Anonymous You can refer to the Civil 3D help in the following page. It might help.

 

To Create Connected Alignments



Guan Leng .Sim

Specialist Technical Support Civil 3D
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fcernst
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This isn't correct information from Autodesk..

 

He needs to create Intersections in this example.



Fred Ernst, PE
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jmayo-EE
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Fred is correct the intersection will lock profiles. You can use this even without creating the corridor if you don't need a full model.

John Mayo

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Anonymous
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Yes! I started playing with the intersection command and it seems to lock profile elevations together. However, if two alignments intersect twice I cannot create another intersection. Referring back to the snippet... Alignment A & B cross twice. I guess I could split Alignment B into two different Alignments? I would rather not if there is different solution.

 

Thanks for the reply

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Anonymous
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Also this is a mass grading for a 200 lot subdivision.. so I have to take this into great detail using Corridors, Subassemblies, and intersections 🤒. I am trying to set myself up proper now so I don't run into problems later.

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samir_rezk
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

I agree with you, I wouldn't split the Alignments; but I also wanted to add a screen capture of the different types of Profile Locking you can do!

Capture.png

 

Hope this helps,


Samir Rezk
Technical Support Specialist

neilyj666
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I think this is the default behaviour and you will need to split the alignment

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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