Creating a geological cross-section in Civil 3D

[raekwon]

I've just upgraded from AutoCad 2008 to Civil 3D. I'm trying to create a geological cross section between a number of monitoring wells. Through the search, I came by a lisp that would create a profile. Since I have z values for contours that pass through my alignment, I can use that profile as the surface. However; I'll still need to show all vertical and horizontal distances between wells, groundwater elevations, well construction, and subsurface soil changes. Is there a way to utilize the profile/surface/etc. tabs within Civil 3D to create what I need? While I'm not new to AutoCad, I'm completely new to Civil 3D. Utimately, I'd like to have a finished dwg that can be imported into ArcGIS.

 

Thanks.

[BenE]

Raekwon,

 

Can you post a quick mock up of what you're trying to accomplish? I'm not sure if I understand what you need to do, but I frequently create cross-sections/profiles from a surface so I may be able to help.

 

-Ben

[BIGAL]

A pretty simple way to make long or cross section of a geological map is to create multiple surfaces 1 for each type of material, rock, soft rock, silt, clay etc You can the run the creation of extracting long & cross sections save them individually make sure you lock the plot datum to a single value. Then cut and paste them together = geological sections.

 

Our old civil software supported plotting multiple surfaces as a single output you just extracted the long section and each time told it to use a different surface model gave the result a name, when plotting just entered the required multiple surface order.

 

I may be wrong but I dont think civ3d supports display of multiple surfaces at one time in long and cross sections hence first suggestion.