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Creating layout profiles

Creating layout profiles - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating layout profiles

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- [Instructor] Now let's look at our layout profile type in this video. So open up our exercise file, click access tool bar, choose the open option, and choose 07_03ProfileLayout. And open up this drawing, you'll see that the profile view is already there and the surface profile that we added in our last video is there as well. This is a time to just get a better grasp that layout profiles are a little bit different from surface profiles. One of the key factors is that you cannot create a layout profile without having a profile view in the drawing. At some point to create that profile, you need a means to draw or design the profile. So, to create our profile, I'm going to select the profile view that it's going to be drawn on. And the contextual ribbon for that profile view, that grid has in its launchpad, profile creation tools. This is the ability to create a layout profile. It opens up and immediately knows the child alignment because the profile view is a child of that alignment…

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