You’re at a point where you’ve added your Sample Lines to your Alignment and your Corridor is built. Now you’re
finally at the money maker point of producing Cross-Section Sheets.
Again, there are a few ways of going about this. I’ll demonstrate one, and afterwards explain
why this is my preferred method (for the time being).
From the Home
Ribbon, in the Profile and Section Views
select Create Multiple Views.
Image 1
The Create Multiple
Section Views – General dialogue box
opens.
Image 2
Alternate though the headings on the left. Make sure you have the proper Alignment and Sample Line Group chosen.
You’ll also notice above that I have created a new Section View Style.
The second heading – Section Placement is what I want to
emphasize. You’ll notice below, on
the dialogue box below that I am using Production
for Placement Options.
Image 3
I have chosen a Layout created in a template, that for the
time being is saved on my Desktop. The
critical point is to create the layout correctly. To do this open your border dwg or dwt file
and follow the next step.
Image 4
I have circled a few things on the screenshot above (showing
the Properties of the selected
viewport). From the top down:
-Scale for Cross-sections is set to
1:200
Notice Custom
Scale is 5 since metric drawings are 1:1000 to begin with.
-Viewport Type – Section
This must be selected from the Civil
3D Section View to function. If not, you
will probably get an error that mentions something about the layout not having
any section views.
-A Layout tab corresponding to a 1:200
scale that can be chosen selected in Image 3.
You’ll
notice the screenshot above has multiple tabs.
This is the template file. Be
sure to save it as “.dwt” file after you make your updates to create the
correct size sheet, otherwise it won’t be available for selection (Image 5).
Image 5
Continue to hit
Next and modify some of the options
as you desire. Alternatively, just
select Create Sections Views from above.
Once the
sections are created, check to see that your page sized correctly.
Image 6
The image
above shows the section views created in Model Space. The dimensions show the inside border
dimension and the outside page. Compare
what was created in Paperspace on the 1:200 Layout.
Image 7
Notice that
in Paperspace the inside border measures 800.2903 corresponding to the 160.0581
from Image 6. Remember the 1:200 Standard
scale which corresponds to Custom Scale of 5 for a 1:1000 Metric scale as shown
on Image 4. (800.2903/160.0581=5)
Now you can
begin to create new drawings using your border template and accurately
window the cross-section views created by Civil 3D in modelspace.
The process
is complete, but I’d be leaving you hanging if I didn’t explain why the
preference was made to create the cross-sections in Modelspace and use separate
drawings for each individual cross-sections sheet. So my best reasoning for this logic is to
access the ability of the Sheet Set
Manager. You can see from Image 8 below,
that the border consists of Fields (greyed
out).
Image 8
Fields are employed for the purpose of
using the Sheet Set Manager, which
allows global changes to the border as well as the ability to make those change
(and print/plot) without even opening the drawing (read: Saves mucho tiempo!)
If your unfamiliar with using Fields and Sheet Set Manager, check this link out:
