Technical data

Chapter 5 Viewing and Editing Roads in Profile View

To create a finished ground profile centerline

Steps

Use

to look up

1 Draft the existing ground profile.

Overview of

Creating Profiles

2 From the Profiles menu, choose FG Centerline

Tangents ➤ Set Current Layer to set the current

layer.

Set the Current Layer for

the Finished Ground Profile

Centerline

3 From the Profiles menu, choose FG Centerline

Tangents ➤ Create Tangents to draw proposed

tangents based on stations, elevations, lengths,

and grades.

You can adjust the AutoCAD crosshairs to a

selected grade if needed. To adjust the crosshairs,

from the Profiles menu, choose FG Centerline

Tangents ➤ Crosshairs @ Grade. This command

affects the AutoCAD snap angle variable and

turns ortho mode on.

Remember, the vertical scale is exaggerated.

Autodesk Civil Design automatically factors in this

scale exaggeration.

Draw the Vertical

Alignment Tangents for

the Finished Ground

Centerline

4 From the Profiles menu, choose FG Vertical

Alignments ➤ Define FG Centerline to define the

finished ground centerline.

When you select this command, all of the layers

other than the FG Centerline layer will be turned

off so you can quickly select only the FG

Centerline objects.

Define the Finished Ground

Centerline as a Vertical

Alignment