CHAPTER VII: SECTIONS

Sections Tutorials

Creating Section Views

This tutorial demonstrates how to display cross sections of the corridor model surfaces
along the centerline alignment. You will create sample lines and then generate the
sections.

Exercise 1: Creating Sample Lines

In this exercise, you will create a set of sample lines along the alignment.
The sample lines define the stations at which the cross sections are cut, and also the
width of the sections to the left and right of the alignment.

Create sample lines

1. Open Sample lines.dwg, which is located in the tutorial drawings folder.

2. Click Home tab>Profile & Section Views panel>Sample Lines.
3. At the Select an Alignment prompt, press Enter.
4. In the Select Alignment dialog box, select Alignment_1. Click OK.
5. In the top portion of the Create Sample Line Group dialog box, specify the
following parameters:
 Sample Line Style: Road Sample Line
 Sample Line Label Style: Section Name and Marks
6. Under Select Data Sources to Sample, verify that the Sample check boxes are
selected for all entries in the table.
7. Set the Section Styles to the following:
Note: You can double-click a Style cell in the table to select the Section Style.
 EG: Existing Ground :Existing Ground
 Corridor - (1) Datum: Finished Grade
8. Click OK.
The Sample Line Tools toolbar is displayed. A Specify Station prompt is displayed
on the command line.
9. On the toolbar, click the arrow next to the Sample Line Creation Methods button.
Click From Corridor Stations.
This option creates a sample line at each station found in the corridor model.
10. In the Create Sample Lines - From Corridor Stations dialog box, accept default
11. Click OK.
The sample lines are created, and the Sample Line Tools toolbar is available for
defining additional lines, if desired.
12. Close the Sample Lines Tools toolbar.

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Exercise 2: Creating Section Views

In this exercise, you will create a section view for each sample line.
First, you will modify some of the settings that apply to section views.

Specify the section view creation settings

1. Open Section_Views.dwg, which is located in the tutorial drawings folder.
2. In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the Section View >Group Plot Styles
collection. Select the Plot All style. Right-click. Click Edit.
3. In the Group Plot Style dialog box, click the Array tab.
This tab defines how multiple section views are organized.
4. The Space between Adjacent Views, defines the separation between adjacent
section views.
5. Click OK.

Create section views

1. Click Home tab>Profile & Section Views panel>Section Views drop-down>Create

Multiple Views .
2. In the Create Multiple Section Views wizard, on the General page, specify the
following parameters:
 Select Alignment: Alignment_1
 Sample Line Group Name: SL_KALSADA
 Station Range: Automatic
 Section View Name: SV_ KALSADA
 Section View Style: Road Section
3. Click Next. Group Plot Style: Basic
4. Click Next. Section View Style: Road Section
On the Offset Range page, notice that the Left and Right values are 50. This is
the sample line swath width value that you specified in Exercise 1: Creating
Sample Lines.
5. Click Next.
6. On the Elevation Range page, specify the following parameters:
 User Specified: Selected
 Height: 20m
 Section Views Height Option: Follow a Section
 Select Section: EG
These settings specify that all section views will be 20m tall and the elevation
will follow the EG surface elevation.
7. Click Next.
The Section Display Options page specifies the object and label styles for the
sampled objects. In this exercise, you will suppress the labels.
8. On the Section Display Options page, in the Clip Grid column, click the Corridor -
(1) Top row.
9. In the EG row, click the value in the Change Labels column.
10. In the Select Label Set dialog box, select No Labels. Click OK.
11. Repeat Steps 8 and 9 to apply the No Labels style to the Corridor - (1) Top and
Corridor - (1) Datum surfaces.

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12. Click Next.

13. On the Data Bands page, under Select Band Set, select Major Stations Offset
and Elevations.
14. In the Set Band Properties area, specify the following parameters:
 Surface1: Corridor (1) - Top
 Surface 2: Corridor (1) - Datum
15. Click Create Section Views.
16. At the Identify Section View Origin prompt, select a point to the right of the
lower profile view.
17. Pan and zoom around one of the section views.