Display a side profile

[RobertBorchert]

Ok if you know what a plan and profile sheet is, then that is what I want to replicate.

I have contours. I have polylines that represent new transmission lines, and I have DEM's and I have the extensions.

What I want to do is create something that looks likes line graph.  The transmission lines go from left to right.  the differences in high of the line on the graph is equal to the changes in elevation.

Any ideas.

If I did it in ArcScene it would be like rendering the base heights and then rotating the scene so you are looking at it from the side, perpendicular to the line.

I don't have any points at this time and very few vertices.

[BenjaminMittler]

From what it sounds like, you want a profile graph.

Go to customize -> Toolbars -> and turn on 3D analyst

Make sure the DEM or whatever you are pulling elevation from is set as your target layer.

Click the interpolate line button, draw your line, the click the profile graph button.

Presto!

Hope this is what you needed