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Sample lines, cross-sections, section views, and relations

Sample lines, cross-sections, section views, and relations - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Sample lines, cross-sections, section views, and relations

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- [Narrator] When working with Linear Design, a lot of times we're going to want to see our design, or jurisdictions, or contractors may require to see the design in cross sectional format. Cross sections are very similar to profiles. In fact, the presentation is pretty much the same. How the information is sampled is different. A profile is going to follow the longitudinal path of the alignment. Whereas, a cross section is generally perpendicular to the alignment. You simply provide a Swath width, or an offset to the left, and an offset to the right of that cross section. But the concept's the same. You're still cutting the Earth. It's just the direction or means of how you're going to cut that Earth. To do cross sections, you need a linear path to create those cross sections in a perpendicular way. So an alignment is the parent of cross sections. To create the cross sections so that you can have varying widths to the offset to the left and offset to the right, and you can have a lot…

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