skipsophrenic Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Hi all, I've just been asked, what would be the best software AutoCAD wise (Not vanilla) that could produce a section from a topographical profile. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Civil 3D... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipsophrenic Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 Cheers for that, Just to confirm i am right about needing a vertical product, there's no feautre like what i've described above in vanilla cad that i've somehow missed for the past 3 yrs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Not easily, you could probably make a 3D surface and slice through it; more work than to do it the old fashioned way (draw alignment, pick off offsets and elevations) There's a couple of lisps I've seen. Here's one QuickProfile.LSP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skipsophrenic Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 Cheers, i'll test it out when i get to find where i saved that bloomin dwg - Human error reared it's head again:glare: Only person i can blame tho is me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 You can also run a 3rd party product like http://www.carlsonsw.com on top of vanilla AutoCAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustysilo Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 I have a youtube video series on doing this with lisps and regular AutoCAD. Be sure to read the notes in the video description. You can also cut profiles with SiteTopo, but only in straight lines. Using the lisps you can do them using any polyline. The only issue then is accuracy, especially at peaks and valley's of the profile. There are many civil/suvey software packages that can achieve this, but one of the above mentioned methods are the cheapest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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