Cross Sections

[ChadPoehland]

I work at a civil engineer firm and we design rockery walls from grading plans that we recieve from various companies. The engineer here wants me to start drawing cross sections thru the rockery walls to show elevations, slopes and so on. He believes that I can just draw one line thru the rockery wall, and AutoCAD will generate the cross section for me. But if that is possible, I have no idea how to do it. I just have AutoCAD 2005, none of the additional packages. If its not possible, what program can I buy to make that possible? We will be doing a lot of cross sections, and he wants them to be done in a very time effcient manner. (5min or so) What do you guys suggest doing? Thanks for any info/suggestions.

 

[CarlB]

I suggest the engineer, who is trained to do this, read the plans and give you elevations and offsets for you to draw up.


But seriously, plain AitoCAD can not do this. With an expensive program such as Land Development Desktop (LDD), not somewaht replaced by civil 3D, and with lots of training, and time to input lots of elevations to define surfaces, then you can easily generate cross-sections. Depends on how many sections per project you need to ghenerate, how oftewn, determines whether it's justified to use a program rather than the good old manual method.

 

[gpavlab]

I use AutoCAD 2004, in that version there is a way to take a section, but it only works if yor drawing is done as a solid model. In a solid model the section command will do what you want, there is also a "slice" command which will take a solid model and turn it into a whole section (just like the way the section would appear in a manually done isometric). You also might consider Architechtural Desktop(another program from Autodesk). Architechtural Desktop is designed to let you create your architechtural drawing in a more 3-D sense. It contain features which could be just what you are looking for, it would at least be worth while to check it out.

 

[lpseifert]

You might want to try this:

http://new.cadalyst.com/code/tips/CodeSearch_Detail.cfm?ID=2149

It requires contours drawn at their proper elevations to work properly.

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Acad2005, Terramodel

 

[epongra2]

http://www.budcad.com/3DP.htm

Give this a shot. Works great!