I am probably confused because I have to rethink the way "we always did it".
We are required to present our profile/plan & profile sheets a certain way:
The modeling workflow would suggest that the ditch profiles are actually created on the ditch line features, and then projected onto the mainline profile? But a projected profile is a graphic approximation, isn't it? It's not actually line to line to line with the defined PI points? Also, we need to label those points based on the mainline stationing. I'm not certain how that would work if the profile is defined on any other element.
Or would it be possible to define those ditch profiles as auxiliary profiles of the mainline? If that's the case, I'm not entirely certain how the template would recognize them as a vertical control.
I can't speak to your first question and how you'd go about displaying & labeling this on plan sheets using the official ORD method since I guarantee that I'd use a frowned-upon duct tape method - however, your second question "I'm not entirely certain how the template would recognize them as a vertical control", wouldn't you just add a vertical point control that controls the ditch point(s) in the template using the specific auxiliary profile?
Answer Verified By: MaryB
This is exactly what I do. It works great. I haven't entirely figured out the annotation part and still label some of the profiles manually. To get them to display where I want them on sheets requires some creative referencing/level display/etc.
Yes, I imagine the annotation may need to be done manually, as will the "10' below datum" profiles. We do it with "creative referencing and leveling" now, and will probably need to continue to be creative in the future.
MaryB
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