Creating Section Views to display modeled objects
With that, let’s go ahead and open up Civil 3D, or go to your start screen if it’s already open, and create a new drawing using similar steps outlined in Chapter 7, Alignments – The Second Foundational Component to Designs within Civil 3D. We can use our Company Template File.dwt file located in Practical Autodesk Civil 3D 2023\Chapter 13 and select Open in the lower right-hand corner of the Select Template dialog box. Once our new file has been created, we’ll want to save it as Section Reference.dwg in our Practical Autodesk Civil 3D 2023\Chapter 13\Model directory.
As discussed back in Chapter 3, Sharing Data within Civil 3D, reference files are intended to contain/represent 2D geometry and static elements and annotation. Reference files would include content such as surveyed planimetrics, civil site plan geometry, erosion control BMPs, and so on.
Although sections are considered to be Civil 3D objects...
