Understanding the ways to create a profile
In this section, we’ll begin exploring multiple ways to create a profile, all while getting a full understanding of the various profile creation tools available to us within the Civil 3D environment.
To access our profile creation tools, we need to activate the Home ribbon along the top of our Civil 3D session, go to the Create Design panel, and click on the down arrow next to where it says Profile.
Figure 8.3 – Profile creation tools
As shown in Figure 8.3, we have the following profile creation tools available to us:
- Create Surface Profile: This allows us to create a profile referencing an alignment and surface model existing in the current file
- Profile Creation Tools: This allows us to create vertical geometry (also known as a profile) along an existing horizontal alignment (a profile view must already be created within the current file)
- Create Best Fit Profile: This allows us to...
