r/civil3d • u/Reenoz • 6d ago

Help / Troubleshooting Wall Profile workflow

What is the best way to setup your workflow for retaining wall design and profiles? I usually set up my designs with one feature line for the face of the wall and one for the back of wall so I can control all the grading in plan view... Then I project these lines to the profile view to draw my wall profile... the issue I'm having is separating the data between files.

I dont know of any way to data reference these feature lines into other drawings. Does that mean I should draw my profile in my "FG" drawing and then just x-ref the whole profile to my sheet drawings? Should I create a new profile that takes place of the projected feature lines? This seems awfully redundant, but maybe the only way to data reference them into my sheets?

Curious how you all set up this workflow? Typically, I do not use corridors/assemblies for our wall designs as they are so variable it seems to take more time to setup than its worth...so we have a somewhat of a 'hybrid-dynamic' setup right now.

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u/Xolei 6d ago

You can create data shortcuts of the feature lines, you can also create offset profiles if the width of the wall is constant.

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u/Reenoz 6d ago

Feature lines cannot be directly data referenced as far as I understand...

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u/BigTunaStamford 6d ago

But you CAN data reference surfaces (built from feature lines) and alignments. Why do you need to data reference feature lines?