Creating Cross Sections of the Design

One of the requirements for a successful and efficient design process is the ability to visualize the design in many different ways. So far, you have explored how profiles can be used to augment the customary way of viewing the design: plan view. In this chapter, you will explore the utilization of cross sections to visualize and display your design in yet another way: by slicing through it in a perpendicular direction.

In the AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software, there are two primary approaches to view and document your design in cross-section view. For design purposes, you use a Civil 3D feature called the Section Editor that enables you to analyze and modify your design section by section. For documentation purposes, you use sample lines, sections, and section views. The section view, just like the profile view, is the backdrop that houses the sections while providing a grid and annotations to go with them. There are also some things that sections can do that profiles cannot, such as slice through corridors and create multiple section views at once.

• Using the Section Editor
• Creating Sample Lines
• Creating Section Views
• Sampling More Sources
• How to Use a Cross-Section View for Various Purposes within Design Process (Additional Exercise)

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• Civil 3D All Exercise Files - Chapter 10 - Metric     --- ( 11.18 MB )
• Civil 3D All Exercise Files - Chapter 10 - Imperial  --- ( 9.28 MB )

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