From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D: Intersecting New Roads with Existing Roads
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Assigning the alignment and profile - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D: Intersecting New Roads with Existing Roads
Assigning the alignment and profile
- Remember the alignment and profile that we created earlier to define the left edge of the existing road? Let's see where they come into play in our intersection design. I'm in the Assign Profiles drawing, and I just wanna remind ourselves that the existing road is our primary road, and the new road, running west to east, is our secondary road. That's gonna become important as we choose some settings for our intersection. What I wanna do is I wanna tie this edge of the intersection design to the alignment and profile that I defined earlier. If we zoom in closely, we can see that it really doesn't match up. Here's the alignment, here's the face of the curb. So what I should see when I'm done is this should slide over and meet this perfectly. So how do we make that happen? Well, we click the corridor within the intersection area, and we should be seeing an Intersections tab, and you may actually be seeing it if your window size is bigger than mine. But because I'm outta space on the…
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