Station value - Profile

[F.Camargo]

Hi guys,

My alignment is too large and I don't know how to create just one alignment and divide in two parts at the profile to fix better in the paper space.

so I divided it in 2 parts (red and yellow line at the image bellow).

I'd like to create a custom label to station value (aligment and profile) for the second aligment. But I don't know how to do that.

My first alignment ends station 24. I'd like to the second alignment continue 25, 26...

Anybody Could help me, please?

Regards

Fabricio

[Jeew-m]

Dear Friend,

I think you have two separate alignments now. Go to your second alignment. Go to alignment properties. On station control tab you can change the start chainage. You can change it to 25 or what ever chainage you want. Press ok. Then every thing is fine.

Or else when you create the second alignment there is a option to set the start chainage. Change it to your desired value instead of 0.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. 

[cwr-pae]

With a single alignment you can have a single profile with multiple profile views. You can manually copy a profile view and set the start and end stations of the profile view and have the view grid labels update automatically. You do have to add the profile labels to each view, but that is fairly quick with profile label sets.

Or you can use the view frame/create sheet tools to have the program do this fairly automatically.

[F.Camargo]

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@Jeew-m wrote:

Dear Friend,

I think you have two separate alignments now. Go to your second alignment. Go to alignment properties. On station control tab you can change the start chainage. You can change it to 25 or what ever chainage you want. Press ok. Then every thing is fine.

Or else when you create the second alignment there is a option to set the start chainage. Change it to your desired value instead of 0.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. 

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I did exactly you said but isn't working.

Instead of 25, starts from 124.

[F.Camargo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

With a single alignment you can have a single profile with multiple profile views. You can manually copy a profile view and set the start and end stations of the profile view and have the view grid labels update automatically. You do have to add the profile labels to each view, but that is fairly quick with profile label sets.

Or you can use the view frame/create sheet tools to have the program do this fairly automatically.

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Hi,

I haven't used that command before. It could be a better idea, but I don't know how to do that.

I'll study about it. 

I'm just a newbie in autocad civil 3D.

Thanks

Fabricio

[cwr-pae]

Look at the image in your reply to jeew-m, it appears you have differing stationing values setup causing labeling issues. ie: 124 & 126 vs expected 25 & 26. You also have a station equation with the same station ahead and back, which should not do anything but may be confusing the program.

My advice is to make a single alignment, with a single set of stationing labels.

[Joe-Bouza]

If I understand correctly your profile view doesnt fit PS? 

use multiple profile views by station range.

[F.Camargo]

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@Joe-Bouza wrote:

If I understand correctly your profile view doesnt fit PS? 

use multiple profile views by station range.

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Hi Joe,

How can I do that? I'm trying to fix it.

I can't change the alignments in just one alignment. Because I project is already created all profiles.

Could make a Screecanst to help me?

Thanks

[F.Camargo]

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@Joe-Bouza wrote:

If I understand correctly your profile view doesnt fit PS? 

use multiple profile views by station range.

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Hi Joseph,

How can I do that? I'm trying to fix it.

I can't change the alignments in just one alignment. Because I project is already created all profiles.

Could make a Screecanst to help me?

Thanks

[F.Camargo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Look at the image in your reply to jeew-m, it appears you have differing stationing values setup causing labeling issues. ie: 124 & 126 vs expected 25 & 26. You also have a station equation with the same station ahead and back, which should not do anything but may be confusing the program.

My advice is to make a single alignment, with a single set of stationing labels.

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make a single alignment is better way. 

But now I'd like to fix it. Because I can't change the 2 alignments to only one, my profiles is already finished.

I'm starting to create a corridor.

[doni49 · Accepted solution]

Let's imagine that your alignment is more than a mile long.  But because of the scale of your sheets, you can only show a few hundred feet at a time.  In the attached dwg file, I created an alignment that is much longer than a mile.

Then I've got one long Profile View showing the entire Profile.  Then I copied that profile view down below it.  I changed this new PV's properties so that it ends at station 3+50.00.  Then I copied that one and changed it so that it begins at 3+50.00 and ends at 6+00.00.  Lastly, I copied it again and changed it so it begins at 6+00.00 and ends at 9+50.00.  These are the PVs that I'd show in my viewport on the sheet.  If you make a change to the main profile (the top one, that change will automatically follow through on the smaller PVs.

Go ahead and try changing the profile -- grip edit the beginning and raise it up higher.  You'll see the change in the smaller PVs.

EDIT:  here's a screenshot for you.

[doni49]

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@F.Camargo wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Look at the image in your reply to jeew-m, it appears you have differing stationing values setup causing labeling issues. ie: 124 & 126 vs expected 25 & 26. You also have a station equation with the same station ahead and back, which should not do anything but may be confusing the program.

My advice is to make a single alignment, with a single set of stationing labels.

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make a single alignment is better way. 

But now I'd like to fix it. Because I can't change the 2 alignments to only one, my profiles is already finished.

I'm starting to create a corridor.

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I'd still combine them back to one if possible.

I'm sure the horizontal alignments intersect somewhere correct?  So continue Baseline A on top of B.  Then place the profiles next to each other in your dwg file so that they appear to flow from one to the other.  Now you should be able to redraw ProfileA so that it continues on top of B.

When you're done, delete the B alignment as you won't need it anymore.

[Jeew-m]

I see a station equation on your alignment. Delete it when you change the chainage. Also set the reference point to the start point of second alignment(at chainage 25). Then it will be ok. 

[F.Camargo]

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@doni49 wrote:

Let's imagine that your alignment is more than a mile long.  But because of the scale of your sheets, you can only show a few hundred feet at a time.  In the attached dwg file, I created an alignment that is much longer than a mile.

Then I've got one long Profile View showing the entire Profile.  Then I copied that profile view down below it.  I changed this new PV's properties so that it ends at station 3+50.00.  Then I copied that one and changed it so that it begins at 3+50.00 and ends at 6+00.00.  Lastly, I copied it again and changed it so it begins at 6+00.00 and ends at 9+50.00.  These are the PVs that I'd show in my viewport on the sheet.  If you make a change to the main profile (the top one, that change will automatically follow through on the smaller PVs.

Go ahead and try changing the profile -- grip edit the beginning and raise it up higher.  You'll see the change in the smaller PVs.

EDIT:  here's a screenshot for you.

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@doni49

Wonderful!!!

Split profiles views worked perfect!!!

In fact working with a single alignment is the best idea.

Thank you for the help.
Your screenshot and the dwg file helped me a lot.

Thank you all of you guys!!!

Fabricio