I'm trying to create an elevation profile in 3D Analyst to scale (1:500 to be specific). The profile graph function does almost everything I need, except export a profile to scale. I can eye ball it and get the x/y porportions almost the same, but that is not good enough for my purposes.
I'm generating 10-20 of these profiles and they need to overlay accurately on top of one another. Any suggestions?
I'm trying to create an elevation profile in 3D Analyst to scale (1:500 to be specific). The profile graph function does almost everything I need, except export a profile to scale. I can eye ball it and get the x/y porportions almost the same, but that is not good enough for my purposes.
I'm generating 10-20 of these profiles and they need to overlay accurately on top of one another. Any suggestions? -Adam
Its not difficult to do this programatically but I am not sure if anyone is sharing an add-in that can do this. (I made one but have no manual written for it as well as no intention to share anything without the MVP structure in place)
There is an inexpensive extension by A-Prime software for ArcGIS (around $400- $500) that does this well. They offer a free full-featured trial. http://www.aprimesoftware.com/
There are other 3rd party extensions that are extremely sophisticated and offer the functionality to create geological cross sections including inclined, slices, etc. etc. but those are 1000s of $ and might be an overkill for what you need.
I contacted Evan Thoms directly ethoms@usgs.gov and he sent me a new toolbox he's building for ArcGIS10. I was able to use the Create surface profiles script he wrote to generate multiple profiles in batch. In conjunction with Data Driven pages I pumped out everything with very little manual work. Thanks Evan.
1)create a linear line 2)split it up into point every 10 meters 3)Calc Z value on points 4) Linear reference points to line to get M value 5) Take the event table an plot it in a projected data frame. except instead of using X and Y use M and Z
And there you have it, a to scale long section. You can overlay a number of lines on top of each other.
To add vertical exageration add a step in between 3 & 4. Where you multiply the Z value by the vertical exageration you want.
Im trying to follow your steps in order to create a profile that is to scale. I am having problems linear referencing the point file to the line in order to get the M value. This may be an easy thing to do but I have never used the function. How should I go about that?
