Discover how to navigate and utilize data bands associated with profile view windows in Civil 3D. This article explains the process of setting up band sets, editing band details, and adding useful data to these bands for more comprehensive profile views.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed walkthrough of setting up band sets in Civil 3D, from minimizing label sets to expanding profile views and band styles.
- Band sets contain information for profile data, vertical geometry, and horizontal geometry. How to add specific data, such as cut data, into bands is explained, along with how to modify the data's display and summary options.
- The article highlights the importance of setting up these data bands before creating profile views, as it allows the data to appear instantly in the window, eliminating the need for later application.
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So in this video we're going to talk about data bands that are associated with our profile view windows. So to do that I'm going to go ahead and go to my settings tab in my tool space.
I'm going to go ahead and minimize my label sets and my label styles and my profiles drop downs. And I'm going to expand out my profile view, my band styles, and then my band sets. So inside of here are all the different types of band sets that we can select.
We have our cut and fill, EGFG elevations, and these are all ones that we have selected in these profile views here. So I'm going to go ahead and go with this EGFG elevations and stations. And I'm going to go ahead and right click and I'm going to select edit.
So inside of the band sets window we have here is our information tab. So the name of the band set and the description of the band set. And then we have the bands themselves.
So what we have inside of these data band sets or data bands is that in the band sets we have information for profile data, vertical geometry, horizontal geometry, super elevation section data, pipe data, and pressure data. We are not going to be talking in this class about super elevation section data, pipe data, and pressure data. So for right now we're going to talk about profile data, vertical geometry, and horizontal geometry.
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If I select profile data I have a style of a different kind of band. We have band sets that can be placed on a on a profile view window. And then you can also, you don't have to place a band set on a profile view window, you can just place a band on the on the view window.
And we saw that when we were creating these profile view windows. If you're not doing a set you could just do an individual band. And so we're going to go ahead and look at some of what these band styles look like.
So for profile data we have information for ones that are already created for cut data, elevations, and stations, empty bands, fill data. So I'm going to go ahead and select cut data and I'm going to edit my current selection so that we can look at what this profile data band style looks like. So a profile data band has an information tab with the name description and who created it.
Then we have the band details. We have the text, the title text, the layout. So this is the height, the width, the offset, and then the text box position.
And then this is the important information. So where are certain labels going to be placed inside this band? So major stations, minor stations, horizontal geometry points, vertical geometry points, station equations, and incremental distances. So for example, major stations we have the options for what kind of ticks we want to have, the size of those ticks, the locations of those ticks, and then we have the label itself.
So what I'm going to go ahead and do is go into compose label so that we can see the text that's available to us. So inside this label style composer because this is an individual label we don't have our information tab with the name and who created it but we do have our
General tab with our label behavior and plan readability. And then we have our layout tab and our drag state tab.
So inside of our layout tab like I said in a lot of other videos the important part is the contents of the text because that's the data that we're going to return inside of our drawing. So I'm going to go ahead and click the ellipses for our contents and so for our band sets for our profile data what we can return from our profile is station values, raw stations, station equation IDs, profile elevations. So as I've said before inside of your profile window you can have profile one and two and then you can do calculations based on profile one and two and we can specify what those profiles are.
We have profile elevation of one, profile elevation of two, and then we have profile one minus profile two or profile two minus profile one to give us cut and fill data information at a specific location along the profile. So I'm going to go ahead and hit cancel, cancel, cancel and then what I'm going to go ahead and do from here is that I'm going to go ahead and add this cut data into here and what Civil 3D is going to ask me to do is what alignment points and profile points do I want associated with it. I'm going to go ahead and leave everything checked and click okay and so what you have here now is I now have added my profile data cut data in here with certain gap information and geometry and I can change that geometry that came up if I didn't like all of them being selected and then we have information for label start station, label end station, we have weeding, staggering, and then we can go ahead and look at these being added to the bottom of the profile view or the top of the profile view.
So I don't have any data bands on the top, I only have data bands on the bottom. So moving on from here I'm going to go to vertical geometry and I'm just going to look at what we have available to us. We've got the information tab, the band details.
I didn't go over in the previous one the tabs for display and summary but that's because these are just what information is being displayed and then a summary of the previous tabs. So band details we have again text title layout and then we have the information for where we want this stuff placed at. So for our vertical geometry band styles we have on our uphill tangents, our downhill tangents, our crest curves, and our sag curves and then we have where to anchor that information and then what is actually presented in that label.
So I can go into here and look at the contents and we have options that are different from what our previous one was. We have horizontal tangent lengths, tangent slopes, tangent slope lengths, extend tangent grades, tangent start stations, tangent start elevations, end stations, end elevations, elevation changes. So different data for different types of bands.
So I'm going to go out of the vertical geometry and I'm going to go to horizontal geometry and we would expect as we've seen before if I went to edit this selection and I went and looked in this band details tab you're going to see labels and ticks are different from the previous one. We have tangents, curves, spirals, and points of intersection and then we have where it's going to be displayed and how it's going to be displayed and then we have the actual components. So then inside the components we have lengths, tangent direction, start station, start easting, start northing, end station, end easing, and northing.
And those are pieces of data that can be put into these bands down here below our windows. So it's a good idea to have these bands set up before you create your profile views so that you can have that data show up when you create the window rather than having to apply them later. So I'm going to go ahead and hit cancel.
I'm going to go out of this because I don't want to change this. I'm actually going to hit cancel because we're not going to talk about super elevation, section data, pipe data, and pressure data because we don't have this information inside of Civil 3D yet. So I'm going to hit cancel again and I'm going to save my drawing and then I'll meet you in the next video.
