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    I would like to know is it is possible to create a profile without making a surface. i don't need the surface volumes, just the profile to be displayed on a drawing. I am using AutoCAD Civil 3D.

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    Not as far as I know... The defintion of a profile really _requires_ an alignment and a surface, and then it can be displayed in a profile view.

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    Not sure what the purpose of your design is. But if you don't need to do surface volumes, you can just create a surface around the area that you want to profile.

    Lets say you have 500 LF of pipe you want to show in a profile. Just create a 5 or 10 foot wide surface around the pipe. You can always paste these surfaces into a master surface should you need to do volume calcs at a later point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rsokolewsky729415 View Post
    I would like to know is it is possible to create a profile without making a surface. i don't need the surface volumes, just the profile to be displayed on a drawing. I am using AutoCAD Civil 3D.

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    HI, not sure what your trying to accomplish, but try creating the surface just don't add anything to the definition, it should work

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    A profile may be created using the profile creation tools. No surface required. You could also create one from a file which has station and elevation data.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rsokolewsky729415 View Post
    I would like to know is it is possible to create a profile without making a surface.

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    Of course.
    You do need an alignment and a profile view, then just run the command: CREATEPROFILELAYOUT
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    Quote Originally Posted by rkmcswain View Post
    Of course.
    You do need an alignment and a profile view, then just run the command: CREATEPROFILELAYOUT
    Design profile, yes. Existing ground profile.... well one could fake it in using the point data elevations the OP mentions, and as long as everyone understands it's a faux eg, then it's sorta legit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cadtag View Post
    Existing ground profile....
    The OP never mentioned anything about an EG profile.
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    see the OPs other post -- I may be conflating two different requests, but they seemed to be related....

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