Pipeline Longitudinal Profile

[viriato79]

Is there any Autodesk Program that does automatically the drawing of a longitudinal profile of a pipeline based on a table information or other font?

Thanks

[CarlB]

If you have information in an Excel or ascii file it may be possible to create a profile with just a few steps. What do you have - distance and elevation at points along a profile?

[viriato79]

I have pipe distance to origin, elevation and pressure (elevation) in points along the pipeline.

[CarlB]

You may have to do a little formatting of your data file, to get it in the form of:

x1,y1
x2,y2
etc...

If you have dat in Excel colums yoyu can combine into 1 column with a formula:

=a1&","&a2

In AutoCAD start the "pline" command; when prompted for points copy and paste the coordinate information from the file and the polyline will be drawn through the points.

If "pressure" is a separate eleavation to be drawn, you'll need 2 separate polylines, the second one using "pressure" as the y value.

I'm sure I did't understand your problem fully so hit me with followup questions.

[bigN]

Thank you...
But can I export a complete hydraulic profile in autocad using a vb directly in excel?.... lines and tables?

[sthsajan]

what about cross section how to plot it in autocad
can u give me excel format for cross section