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Allow for Select Profile/Section in Addition to Profile View/Section View

Allow for Select Profile/Section in Addition to Profile View/Section View

Often times I'll be working zoomed into a profile view and may have a need to create a profile or add a section view label. It would be great if it was possible to select a section or profile in addition to a profile view/section view because zooming out and then back in is a pain in the rear.

 

Also new users have a hard time with these commands because they think they are selecting the profile view, but instead are selecting the profiles instead. It makes for a program that seems hard to use since the command line isn't telling them what they are doing wrong. Allowing the selection of a profile/section would alleviate this issue and make Civil 3D seem easier to use.

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It would also be nice if the Civil 3D API had a method in the CivilDocument where you could have the user select a profile and have it return both the profile ObjectId and the ObjectId of the Profile View that the user selected it from.

troma
Mentor

This would be similar to alignment labels. If I select the label and right-click, I'm given the same options as if I select the alignment itself and right-click. I'm not sure if there are any other objects that work this way.

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