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Creating a Profile View for Pressure Network Display in Civil 3D

Pressure Network Profile

1

Select the Alignment

Pressure network needs an alignment to follow.

2

Create Profile View

Profile menu → Create Profile View — match style to your standards.

3

Add Pressure Parts

Pipes and fittings draw as profiles automatically once linked.

4

Add Labels

Pipe size, material, and elevation labels — use band sets for organization.

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This Civil 3D tutorial walks through creating a profile view for pressure network display in civil 3d, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

We're going to go ahead and place our pressure network into a profile view, but first we need to create a profile view to display it inside of. So to do that, I'm going to go ahead and click Close on this.

I'm going to go ahead and go to my pressure network. I'm going to go ahead and hover over any part of my pressure network, specifically over the alignment that is associated with it. And what I can see here is that if I select it, the alignment will show up.

I'll hover over it. And what we can see here is that it's called Pipe Run One. So my pressure pipe for my main trunk is called Pressure Pipe One.

So I'm going to go ahead and go to Alignments, Miscellaneous Alignments. I'm going to go to Pipe Run One. I'm going to go ahead and right-click and I'm going to go ahead and select it so that we can make sure.

And in fact, it is. So I'm going to go ahead and go back out, hit Close again. I'm going to go to Profile, Create Surface Profile.

I'm going to go ahead and drop down my alignments and I'm going to choose Pipe Run One from here. I'm going to go ahead and choose my Finished Construction surface. I'm going to add this in.

And so from here, what we can see is that we have this surface available to us. So I'm going to go ahead and select Draw in Profile. So from here, I'm going to go ahead and create a profile view.

And then I'm going to pick the lower-left corner of that profile view. So from here, we now have a profile view of my Finished Construction surface. Now what I'm going to go ahead and do is select my pressure network and I'm going to click on the option for Draw Parts in Profile View.

I'm going to click this option and Civil 3D is going to prompt me to select a pipe network to add to the profile view. I'm going to go ahead and select a portion of the pipe here and I'm going to go ahead and hit ENTER. Civil 3D will automatically highlight the entire network.

Now Civil 3D is asking me to select a profile view. I'm going to go ahead and select this profile view here. And once I do that, you can now see the pipe network that we've created here.

These little extra pieces that are shooting up—these are our laterals—but the main trunk is right here running underneath our surface. So I'm going to go ahead and zoom out. I'm going to close this.

I'm going to save my drawing and I'll meet you in the next video.