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Projecting objects to profile views

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Projecting objects to profile views

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- [Instructor] There are certain times where we want to show information in relation to our profiles. Information such as maybe the bottom of the creek or the location of a fire hydrant, or something similar to that, on our profile view. And so we can do what's called projection and project these objects on a profile view. Let's see how we can do that. I'm going to go ahead and open and choose the 07_09 exercise project profile view. In this drawing we find a 3D object. It's very similar to a survey figure it's called a feature line, we'll create those in a later chapter, but we see that it's following, it's actually the water line here. Placed roughly about four feet below the existing grade along the surface at that location. And we want to see its location in relation to our profile here. Now we're following a linear object and applying a linear object along the profile view. But we can also place features, set objects, like AutoCAD points, blocks, civil 3D points, and so forth and…

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