Generate Terrain String Long Section

To generate a long section along a terrain string alignment on a separate layout.

Procedure

1. The Plot Setup displays.

2. Select the Terrain String Longsection sheetfile from the sample sheetfile directory, as shown below.

3. Set the desired sheet size and click Next.

4. The Terrain Long Section Setup displays. The first step is to specify what terrain string to use for the long section alignment. Click the Browse button.

5. In the Long-section from Terrain String dialog, specify a main string and a child string.

6. The next step is to specify which section lines will be shown. The lines can be extracted from a terrain surface, or any string belonging to the family of the string you specified in Step 5.

7. Click Next to display the Long Section Editor where you can review that the correct data has been extracted for the long section.

8. Click Finish to generate the long section. A new layout is added to the drawing with the long section.