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Creating sample lines and sections

Creating sample lines and sections - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating sample lines and sections

- [Instructor] Now that we understand the relationships that exist between alignments, sample lines, cross sections, and section views, let's go ahead and create our sample lines and, really as a result, create our cross sections. So we're going to open up our drawing here, our 0-9-0-2 sample lines exercise file. We have our corridor as well as our alignments. And from the home ribbon, under the profiles and section views panel, the middle option is to create sample lines. So I'm going to go ahead and select that. It asked me to select an alignment, because there's so many objects here, we have a corridor, we have labels, we have surface. I'm going to choose the other option of pressing enter to select the alignment from the list. The alignment we're looking for is Ossiola Road. We click okay and it says well, there's not an existing sample line group. So I'm going to make one for you. Again the sample line group gives us the ability to make quick changes, such as what data sources to…

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