Modify profile view styles

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In the drawing, select the profile view, right,

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click and go to edit profile view style.

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When you make individual edits,

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click the apply button to see the changes on your profile view.

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Go to the graph tap

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this tab controls the vertical scale of the profile view.

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It allows us to set an exaggerated vertical axis.

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The horizontal scale is set by the model space or viewport scale

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change the vertical exaggeration

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in the graph tab

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to five and apply it,

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change it back to 10.

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You can also change the profile view direction if you wish

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go to the grid tab,

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this controls the display of the horizontal and vertical grid lines in the view,

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select clip vertical grid.

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This will trim the grid to the profiles in the view,

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select clip to highest profile

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do the same for the horizontal grid.

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The grid padding is a margin that can be added

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around the extents of the profiles in the view.

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Select AM

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grid in padding areas for both the horizontal

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and vertical grids

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change the grid padding dimensions on the left and right

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to 0.5.

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The units are in major grid blocks,

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the axis offset allows you to offset the position of the axes in plotting units

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beyond the grid and padding areas.

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Go to the title annotation tab.

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Here you can change the content and style of the view title

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and set its position relative to the view.

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We want to make the title text large.

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So change the text height for the title to 0.5

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for the title content. Click the edit text button.

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We want our title text to be all in upper case,

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select the parent alignment property in the editor

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and in the properties change the capitalization to uppercase,

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then use the arrow button to apply it back to the text contents

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and click. OK.

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To see how the position of the title changes,

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change the title position, location to bottom and click apply,

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then changed the location back to top.

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You can adjust its position by adding an X and Y offset.

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Remove the border around the title

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under the axis title text. You can select any of the axis,

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left,

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right

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bottom,

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top

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and edit the axis, title, text contents and position. For each axis.

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Our top access is set to reach station

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and the left axis is set to read elevation,

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go to the horizontal axes tab.

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Here we have more detailed control of the axes.

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We can display major

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and minor ticks and labels

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the sizes of the ticks and the labels can be changed.

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The format and contents of the text can be edited

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and the labels can be adjusted relative to the axes.

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The major and minor intervals can be set here.

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Minor labels can be set to a subdivision of the major grid

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at the top of the dialogue. You can set which access to edit top or bottom

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with the axes set the bottom changed a major tick interval to 200.

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The bottom axis interval controls the major and minor grid spacing

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as well as the axis annotation interval.

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Set it back to 100.

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We'll leave the default settings for this.

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Go to the vertical

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axes

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tab.

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Here you have the same options for editing ticks and labels. As the horizontal axes,

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you can switch between axes here

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and edit the settings for each

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the left axis interval controls the major and minor grid intervals.

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Try changing the major interval on the left axis to 20 ft temporarily

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on the display tab.

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You'll see a list of all the components that make up the profile view

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like other stars we've looked at, you can change the visibility

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layer

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color

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and line type settings in here. For each component,

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we're going to make some adjustments in here by changing the visibility

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settings to remove some of the components from our profile view.

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We don't want any annotation on the right of the view.

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So turn off right axis annotation major

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and the T

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right axis

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T

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major

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and right axis

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T

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minor

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and apply the changes.

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Similarly, we want a clean top axis.

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So turn off top

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axis title

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annotation, major

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tis major

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and tick minor,

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we want to mark the profile view with the

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positions of the tangents and curves on the alignment

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so that we can see where they relate to the vertical road geometry.

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Turn on grids at horizontal geometry point,

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this will place blue lines where the horizontal geometry changes.

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Finally, we can see that the profile hatch component is visible.

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We'll add some hatching to the view shortly.

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Click, OK. To save the changes and review the profile view.

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Select the view right click and choose profile view properties.

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Go to the hatch tap

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in here. We can create hatched areas between two profiles.

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Usually the existing ground and our design,

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the hatching will denote the cut and fill between the two

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at a cut area

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and a fill area.

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Civil 3D will automatically arrange the order of

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the surface profile and the design profile for each

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so that we can apply different hatch styles for cut and fulfill.

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You can change the hatch stars under the shape style column,

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click, OK. To save the settings and apply the hatching.

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The hatching allows us to easily identify

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the relative areas of cotton fill

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and can be useful in appraising the design levels of our road.

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We now have a clear and clean looking profile view.