Profile Output
Overview
The Profile Generator provides the fastest, most stable means of creating existing & finished ground road profiles. The wide selection of output formatting options and extensive use of block objects gives the user maximum flexibility for customizing the end product to suit the needs of virtually every designer or local approving agency.
Not only does ASE Civil feature highly detailed centerline, 3-line, and 4-line (median roadway) stacked profiles, but it also provides tools for easily repositioning labels for legibility. In addition, ASE will remember where the labels were moved so that each time the profile is redrawn, labels will return to their user-specified locations, even after elevation changes. This means a designer can raise or lower an entire site, and then regenerate profiles with labels displaying the new elevations with little or no cleanup.
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Specifications
Standalone Profile Drawings
A Profile drawing must be created for each alignment. The Profile drawing will later be attached to improvement sheet drawings as an XREF by ASE Civil's Profile Display System.
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Production Output Only
Profile Generation is an output-only feature. Changes cannot be made to the finished profiles then sent back to the Design Marker system.
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Life-Cycle
Each generation cycle completely refreshes (Destroys and rebuilds) all elements of the profiles and the frame they are contained within. The output is dynamic. Any changes to the existing ground surface or the finished road design that have taken place since the last generation cycle will be included in the next generation.
Requirements
Dedicated AutoCAD .dwg
For storing finished profile output and subsequent attachment to the production plan & profile sheets.
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ASE Paving Design Data
Road design data describes the configuration of paving features on an alignment. This data is created for each active alignment during the paving data share cycles.
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Civil 3D Data
Requires ASE or Civil 3D alignments and Civil 3D surfaces.
If both ASE and Civil 3D alignments are visible on the same project, Civil 3D alignments will be ignored.
Drawing Setup
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Create a Dedicated Dwg
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Start a new drawing
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Save the drawing in the desired project folder
Set ASE project data folder
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Select the ribbon icon
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Browse to and select a folder
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Setup Civil 3D Environment
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Set the "Working Folder" in the "Data Shortcuts" node of the "Prospector", inside the "Toolspace" palette.
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Create a data shortcut to the existing surface (Recommend "No display" style)
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Create a data shortcut to the alignment (Recommend "No display" style)
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Profile Generation
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Setup Region Preferences
Only required before generating a profile the first time. (View Sample)
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Select (menu) [profile] -> Preferences -> Frame
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Verify / adjust settings as-needed
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Close dialog
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Generate the Profile
First-time ASE profile generation requires alignment selection
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Select (menu) [profile] -> Generate Profile
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Select the alignment from the dialog
The finished ground profiles (w/eg profiles) will be created.
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Troubleshooting
Some reasons profiles don't appear correctly:
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Paving Feature(s) defined incorrectly
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Drawing scale settings
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See the Troubleshooting Guide for more
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PVI Labels
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Displaying Offsets
Show or suppress display of offset values in PVI labels.
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Open an ASE profile generation drawing
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ASE Alignments
(Ribbon) Select "Offset Labels" in the [profile] -> "Preferences" panel
In the dialog, format how offset values will be displayed in PVI labels
Or...
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Civil 3D Alignments
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Associate the profile drawing with a Civil 3D project
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Create a data shortcut to the alignment associated with the profile
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(Ribbon) Select "Offset Labels" in the [profile] -> "Preferences" panel
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In the dialog, format how offset values will be displayed in PVI labels
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After the profile is regenerated, the PVI labels will include offsets
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Exceptions
The following profile elements do not display offsets in the PVI label:
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Centerline features
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Offset features located at C/L (Culdesacs, typ.)
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Vertical Curve BVC & EVC labels
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