Amend Cross Section Profile Line Colours

Hi Ken.

Ken Bagnall said:

I know this wasn't possible in the past but is it yet possible in 2022 R1 to add lines to your frame for additional terrains beyond your proposed and existing terrain? i.e. multiple proposed terrains.

There is still only one Ground Terrain that can be used i believe.

Ken Bagnall said:

What is the best way to display different terrains in cross sections as different colours. I can only think of using different FD but then I guess I'd have to setup a bunch of generic ones ready to use on projects to avoid spending time setting up new specific FD for each new project. 

What about using Level Override symbology? As long as Level Overrides in enabled in View 1 of your 3d model it will propagate to all cross sections. Separate FDs will give each Terrain a separate level you can control or even have each Terrain in a separate Reference and override levels that way.

Hi Ken.

Ken Bagnall said:

I know this wasn't possible in the past but is it yet possible in 2022 R1 to add lines to your frame for additional terrains beyond your proposed and existing terrain? i.e. multiple proposed terrains.

There is still only one Ground Terrain that can be used i believe.

Ken Bagnall said:

What is the best way to display different terrains in cross sections as different colours. I can only think of using different FD but then I guess I'd have to setup a bunch of generic ones ready to use on projects to avoid spending time setting up new specific FD for each new project. 

What about using Level Override symbology? As long as Level Overrides in enabled in View 1 of your 3d model it will propagate to all cross sections. Separate FDs will give each Terrain a separate level you can control or even have each Terrain in a separate Reference and override levels that way.

I don't understand how people manage with only 1 ground terrain, we would use it regularly in MX. The only workaround is doing them as long sections but that's too manual for more than a few.

Interesting idea Mark. So to be clear, I just need to override the symbiology for the referenced terrains but then is it Level overrides I need on like below?

Ken Bagnall said:

I don't understand how people manage with only 1 ground terrain, we would use it regularly in MX. The only workaround is doing them as long sections but that's too manual for more than a few.

Same here - would also give users the opportunity to use levels from Terrains instead of using linear features

Regarding Level Overrides, thats right. It should be WYSIWYG - so if it looks how you want in View 1 of your 3d model then thats what you'll see in your sections (I assume it is all setup with the sync "Settings from Design Model" set for your Sheet seed).

I dug out the Level which is used to determine the colour and changed it in the 3D model which in turn updated the cross sections (although one section only updated once). I'm not sure I understand what the Levels override does, might need to look into it more but the information looks all black/white in the 3D model even though the correct colour in the cross sections so not WYSIWYG for some reason. The Levels override didn't seem to make a difference to the cross sections.

Hi Ken,

Can you double check you have this setting enabled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQ1rQ168qk&list=PLnJUnxLwu_N7ThhmfkTRw2WShEWT46GCO&index=11

Regarding Level overrides, by default it sets some of these as color 0. You may need to clear rhe values if the ones you don't want to change and it will then use its normal symbology.