This command allows you to create a profile in one step. The alignment for the profile can be defined using picked points, a centerline file or a polyline. The surface for the profile can be definedby 3D screen entities or surface files (grid or triangulation). Since picked points are the default for the horizontal alignment, the command is as quick as select surface type (screen or file), then Pick, Pick, Enter and view. The resulting profile is displayed in a graphic dialog box with real time data reporting. As the crosshairs are moved across the profile in the window, the station, elevation and slope data corresponding to the current crosshair location appear in the lower right of the window. A second crosshair on the plan view corresponds to crosshair movement along the profile so the user knows exactly where the current profile point is on the plan view. Also the Adjust Alignment function allows you to drag a horizontal alignment point and update the profile in real-time.
Vertical Exaggeration: Determines
the amount of vertical
exaggeration for the profile in the window.
Drag Action: Determines whether the right mouse button functions
as "Zoom" or "Pan" in the profile window.
Grid Ticks Only: Instead of the full graph as shown above,
Grid Ticks only plots only ticks along the horizontal and vertical axis
near
the station and elevation text.
Adjust Alignment: Allows you to pick a horizontal alignment
point and while moving it, the profiles are updated in real-time. You
can also select a horizontal alignment segment and move the whole
alignment position. The Adjust Alignment function is only available
when surface files are used as the source of the surface model.
Save: Writes the current profile data to a .PRO file.
Draw: This draws the profile with grid in the drawing. The user
has options for horizontal and vertical scales and the layer of the
profile. The Draw Profile command includes more options for drawing the
profile. In order to use this command, you must first create a .PRO
file using the Save command described above.
Exit: Exits this command.
Help: Opens on-line help.
Note that the Draw option will exit the Quick Profile command after the drawing is complete. A typical completed drawing, in this case with two surfaces, is shown below. Note also that the horizontal stationing text offset follows the setting in the Draw Profile command itself.
Pick starting point (CL-Centerline, P-Polyline): screen
pick
alignment points for profile
Pick second point: pick next point
Pick next point (Enter to end): press enter to end
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Dialog Box
Opening file c:\Carlson2007\DATA\quickpro.pro for write. Note
that the 2nd surface profile, if used, is named QUICKPRO2.PRO.
Keyboard Command: quickpro
Prerequisite: 3D screen entities and a grid (.GRD) or
triangulation
(.FLT) file
File Name: \lsp\quickpro.lsp