Explore the intricacies of data bands and their application in profile view properties within Civil 3D. Understand how different bands can be added to profile view windows, and discover the process of specifying which profiles are returning information in the bands tab.
Key Insights
- Profile view properties in Civil 3D have a bands tab where different bands can be added to profile view windows. These band sets are usually set up when creating the profile view.
- In the bands tab, users can navigate to a window where they can specify which profile (profile one or profile two) is returning the information. This can be applicable when calculating the difference between two profiles.
- When using a cut data band, the user should specify which profiles to apply to the calculation. For example, if the calculation is profile one minus profile two, the surface profile should be profile one, and the dev main profile should be profile two to get the correct information in the data band.
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So, I want to kind of round off this whole data band issue and show the application of what we just talked about in data bands. So, if you went to a profile that you had already created and you selected the profile view window, up in the contextual ribbon bar if you go to Profile View Properties, you're going to get the tabs and the window for your Profile View Properties.
So, we have what we've gone over before, Information, Stations, Elevations, Profiles, but the important thing that we have in here is Bands. So, we've talked about what these different bands are. So, this Bands tab would have been set up by one of our band sets when we created our profile view, but because we didn't talk about band sets when we were creating our original profile view, now we can go ahead and add different bands into these profile view windows.
So, this band set that we selected when we created this profile view went ahead and added one band at the bottom of the profile view. It was giving us profile data and giving us information based on elevations. So, that's the Elevation and Station band style.
So, if I go here, Elevation and Station. So, when we were talking about these profile data band sets, we had an option for giving us information about Profile One and Profile Two. I wanted to show you where that information shows up inside Civil 3D.
So, in this Bands tab on the Profile View Properties, if you go down into this window down here that tells you what band you're using, if you navigate over to the right, you're going to see this information here for Profile One and Profile Two, where you can specify which profile you're returning information about. So, I can select Profile One and I can choose any of the profiles that are currently inside of my drawing. So, if I had a data band that said that I was going to calculate the difference.
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So, I was going to do Profile One minus Profile Two, and that was going to return a piece of information. Then what I would need to know is basically which profiles I want to apply to that. So, in our case here, say I was doing a cut data band.
So, right here, the Cut data band, if I went to here and edited this and looked at my label, what it is returning for me is a Profile Elevation One minus Profile Two Elevation. So, Profile One subtract Profile Two. So, to get the data for that for a cut, I would need to know which one's which.
So, if I'm cutting, I'm taking soil away from my surface. So, I'm doing Profile One minus Profile Two. So, I would want to make my surface Profile One, and then I would want to make my Dev Main Profile Two, so that I would get the appropriate information showing up in my data band.
So, this is just, I wanted to come back and circle in on this to show you how to apply that information for Profile One and Profile Two into your data bands, so that you can get information. Same thing goes for if you wanted to return Profile One elevation information or Profile Two elevation information, you want to make sure you're selecting the correct
Profile, so that when you look at the data down here in the data band, that you're going to get the actual correct data you're looking for. So, I'm going to go ahead and hit Cancel.
I'm going to hit Escape. I'm going to save my drawing, and then I'll meet you in the next video.
