Generate cross sections from level book

[woodman78]

I am wondering if anyone has done any work on a way of importing level book data to generate cross sections? Out survey team take levels and offsets and 10m intervals along a road that we are looking at overlaying. I want to generate a CAD cross section at each chainage and was wondering if anyone has done this or something similar before.

[woodman78]

I have figured out a very manual way of doing it using LeeMac's Point Manager. I copy of the Level/Offset for each chainage and paste them into a blank Excel sheet. Then I switch the column order to be Offset/Level. When I import the file using PTM it draws the cross section perfectly. Only problem is that I had to do them individually and move each cross section after drawing to avoid the next one coming in on top of it.

Could anyone suggest any ways to automate more of the process? Maybe even on the autocad side. Thanks.

[BIGAL]

Our other software Civilcad has a level book entry method the really nice thing though is you draw a centreline of your road so the cross section points are mapped sq to this line and the codes are joined together so you get a picture also. A surface model is then created and cross and longs produced.

If you have civ3d then convert your cross section book into X,Y,Z PTs x is chainage and create a surface.

If you want just a cross section then either a lisp or I would look at excel to write a script to draw your cross section this would include all the text values as well.

Does a cross section lisp exist that draws proper x sections the answer is yes its copyrighted but I will ask how much for it plus much more stuff.