Pipe Profile

[Kyle-Evans]

Hello,

I have a drawing with a Road Plan and profile. All of my pipes show up in the plan view. And most of them show up in profile view. I have one pipe, my Sanitary main, that refuses to appear in my profile view. I have Right clicked on the pipe, and selected, Draw in profile view, and i have selected my profile, and it refuses to show up. I have right clicked and went profile view properties, went into pipes and made sure that selected pipe was on Draw. One time, when i selected Draw, it put some weird pipe in there i have never seen before. If anyone has a solution for me, please let me know ASAP.
Thank you

[kcobabe]

image is worth a thousand words.

Some things you might want to look at.

First try the style and make sure the inside or outside walls is on and on a layer that is on.

Next check the inverts at your manholes, it may be so low it is out of the profile view.

Check to see if you have the drawn on layer in the layer settings for pipe networks set to a layer that is on.

Finally do an audit to see if Autocad is having an error with the pipe.

[Kyle-Evans]

Ok here is my printscreen.
1) The inverts are all fine,
2) and the style is fine, as it is showing the pipes to the left of this one that should be there. (Green sanitary pipe in drawing)
3) I tried turning all the layers on to no avail.
4) I ran an audit and there was no errors with the pipes.

[Anonymous]

Check your pipe properties. Make sure the invert is in the profile view elevation range. If it's not you won't see it till you adjust it. YOu can do this by right clicking the pipe in plan view and go to pipe properties.

[Kyle-Evans]

As I said above, the inverts are in the range specified by my profile.

[Anonymous]

Try changing the elevation of your start and end inverts by a very small amount (1 mm or so). This has sometimes made a stubborn pipe reappear.

[Kyle-Evans]

Nope, raised both sides by a mm, and it is still not reappearing... I am lost here... This is stupid... why wont it just show up
ARGHHH

[Anonymous]

Hi Sindarin,

If you save your screen grab as PNG file instead of a BMP file, it will be
much, much smaller and be far less of an imposition on those who download
it.

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Ok here is my printscreen.
1) The inverts are all fine,
2) and the style is fine, as it is showing the pipes to the left of this one
that should be there. (Green sanitary pipe in drawing)
3) I tried turning all the layers on to no avail.
4) I ran an audit and there was no errors with the pipes.

[dana.probert]

jason hickey ran into this a few months ago. there was some sort of mini corruption in the dwg that prevented it from being seen. QA had no solution except to recreate the profile.

[DarinSable6976]

Civil 3D 2007
If you are clipping the profile from structure to structure and entering specific station and elevation ranges for the profile view under Graph Data, it is best to select the start and end stations from the plan view rather than typing them in.

Civil 3D 2008
Best of luck.......I am still waiting for the service pack.

[Anonymous]

Dana Breig Probert wrote:
> jason hickey ran into this a few months ago. there was some sort of
> mini corruption in the dwg that prevented it from being seen. QA had
> no solution except to recreate the profile.

Those weren't pipes, they were structures...but for some reason, a few
of them just weren't showing up when I had the style displaying them by
boundary. If I changed the style to 3D object, it drew fine in the
profile but was ugly as hell. That was a 2007 drawing that was still
broken in 2008, so it wasn't a version issue.

Worst case scenario - delete that portion of the pipe network and
recreate it, see if that works. That will tell you if it's a problem
with the network or with the drawing. The person who should have had
an answer for this one was stumped on it as well...

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Civil 3D 2008
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[Kyle-Evans]

Actually I happened to figure it out. I moved each of the connecting manholes a millimeter away from their original position, and the pipes came along with the manholes. I looked at the profile and the pipe had magically appeared.

If anyone else has this problem give the manhole moving a little try.

Thanks to all the help people gave me!

[Anonymous]

sorry i did not help u sooner. we have had this issue several times (usually with structures). u have found a solution we often employ. many times we encounter this when our pipes fall ON the alignment that is being profiled. particularly when a structure is at a PI of the profiled alignment.

csk