Profile to polyline?

[rjohnson42]

I'm fairly new to Civil 3D, so go easy on me. I've looked this up and haven't found a "good" answer yet.

 

What I have is a grading surface for a roadway with cut and fill slopes. The company I work for manufactors soil reinforcement products and we're bidding on a job. We need to estimate the face area of the reinforced slopes, amount of reinforcement required, etc. So, what I have done is created profile views for all the slopes (we were given slope limits). Now I need to take the top of slope and bottom of slope profiles and use them to create our elevation views. Our elevation views would include the facing material(s), reinforcement layers, etc. How can I extract the profile lines? I've tried to explode them, but they don't explode properly (or at least, they don't explode into lines).

 

Thanks in advance for any help/advice

[rickh]

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/3D-Polyline-from-Profile/td-p/2453570

Not sure if this link will help. See post #4.

 

or maybe this one:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Profile-Object-Line-to-Polyline/td-p/2849100

[BIGAL]

If you create a surface model you can export out the 3dfaces that make the model, I am sure there is a lisp posted here that gives total area of 3dfaces job done.

[rjohnson42]

I just went with explode. The first time I tried to explode, I exploded the profile view. That's when I messed everything up. Had I just exploded the profiles themselves I would have been fine.

[rickh]

cool, thanks for posting the solution.