Section view and Profile view

[Anonymous]

Some of my coworkers are running PowerCivil and some Civil 3D.

What I noticed is that running PowerCivil they can very easly create cross sectiones or profile view by just drawing a line using it as an alignmnet and then including external references in any format dwg, dgn or ifc.

Objects like 3D faces or polyface meshes are no problem.

In C3D I have to create surface of 3D faces first or export ifc to solides, same for pipes before I can use them in a cross section view. So much extra work.

So my questions is if there is any way around this? Why is that so easy in PowerCivil but not in C3D?

[emoreno83 · Accepted solution]

I'm agree with you. I think that in that aspect, Bentley has an advantage. 

If you want to "Project Objects to Multiple Section Views", it is not possible to project solids from a external reference (xref). The solids in the drawing take up a lot of space and it is more useful that they were in an external reference.

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

So it is not just me!