Autodesk® Civil 3D® does not have tools to automatically display the road edge offset (lane width) in the profile view. There is however an option to display the offset alignment distance from the road centerline in the profile view bands, but this distance is measured perpendicularly to the offset alignment and not the road centerline. This causes discrepancies, which results in the cross section values not matching the profile view values.
We developed a workflow that uses the sample line widths to display the road edge offset:
The video below shows how to add the offset values to the profile view:
Video timestamps:
00:23 Description of two widening options
00:41 Create profile view band set with offsets
04:02 Export band settings
04:20 Import new band set
04:32 Import band settings
05:28 Create sample lines
08:28 Create corridor for sample lines stations
11:01 Create sample lines at corridor stations
12:28 Create sample lines at PVIs
15:23 Create sample lines for roads without offset alignments
This video is also available on our Training on-Demand site, Profile Views channel.
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