Chapter 7Profiles and Profile Views
Profile information is the backbone of vertical design. The Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software takes advantage of sampled data, design data, and external input files to create profiles for a number of uses. Profiles will be an integral part of corridors, as we'll discuss in Chapter 9, “Basic Corridors.” In this chapter we'll look at using profile-creation tools, editing profiles, and generating and editing profile views, and you'll learn ways to get your labels just so.
In this chapter, you will learn to
- Sample a surface profile with offset samples
- Lay out a design profile on the basis of a table of data
- Add and modify individual entities in a design profile
- Apply a standard band set
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