Plan and Profile

Use this function to generate plan and longitudinal profiles for the corresponding plan.

• Plan and respective profiles will be generated on section basis of 750.0m for a drawing scale of 1:1000. For other scales the section length varies.
• The function clips and pastes together parts of plans and corresponding longitudinal profiles.
• The function is based on the AutoCAD commands “Model space” and “Paper space”.
• For detailed description of Model space and Paper space, see AutoCAD help.

The minimum requirements before executing the function are as follows:

• Draw the plan of the Water and Sewer project using the function “Plan”.
• Draw plan frames to the plan using the function Insert Frame/Panel of the menu Novapoint Drawing Layouts.
• For detailed description on generating plan frames, refer the topic Insert Frame/Panel.
• The frame to be used for this function is Half height A1.
• The length of the frame/panel depends on “Drawing Scale”.
• Plan frames are to be drawn all along the trench length, for which plan and profiles are to be generated.
• The frames should be oriented such that they are parallel to trench. Orientation can be done using AutoCAD's “Rotate”, “Move”, etc., functions.
• Draw the profile frames using the function “Longitudinal Profile”.

Run the function “Plan and Profile” from the following locations:

Menu: Water and Sewer > Drawing > Plan and Profile
Toolbar: Drawing: Plan and Profile

Command prompts for:

Select Plan Frame:

Select the Plan's Red Frame.

Enter Plan View Name:

Define a name for the selected plan view to identify it.

Select Profile Frame:

Select the Profile frame corresponding to the section of the plan frame selected.

Enter Profile Frame Name:

Define a name for the Profile frame selected, to identify it.

The next step is to go to AutoCAD's tab Layout and run the function Plan and Profile again.

• Before going to the tab Layout, repeat the function on AutoCAD's Model tab so that all the plan frames and profile frames are selected.
• When all the plan frames covering the whole section of the trench and related profile frames are selected, switch to the tab Layout.
• Define the plot settings.
• Run the function Plan and Profile.
• The dialogue box Select View will pop up. This includes a list of all the plan views and profiles views.
• Select the plan view to be added to the layout and click OK.
• Again the same dialogue box will pop up.
• This time select the respective profile view.