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Posted by brad-ott on May 13, 2022 at 2:30 pmIs this statement correct?
Stream cross sections are drawn from left to right, looking downstream.
brad-ott replied 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Members · 12 Replies- 12 Replies
That’s correct if it’s how your legend or section label says….
That’s how I’ve always seen it and how I’ve done them. Stationing for streams begins with 0+00 upstream increasing as you go downstream, and the cross-sections move like you read, left to right. The banks are defined by looking downstream, left and right.
I did six miles completely opposite. Live and learn.
Just hold the drawings up to the Sun and look at them from the back.
- Posted by: @holy-cow
Just hold the drawings up to the Sun and look at them from the back.
Had to do that in 1987 with some architect drawings on a clock tower in a strip mall. They drew one tower and just noted that the other was a mirror image.
You should have seen how bowed out of place that steel was at thirty feet up!
- Posted by: @learner
consider the mirror command, and the mirrtext setting…..
Seemingly small comments and tips like this make this site so valuable. Made us look good for a new client, without redoing 40-hours of drafting. My thank you $ note to Wendell whenever I do send it, will be woefully inadequate, as usual.
Thank you, too @learner.
Just tell them you’re dyslexic
You’re welcome…
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That’s how I’ve always seen it and how I’ve done them. Stationing for streams begins with 0+00 upstream increasing as you go downstream, and the cross-sections move like you read, left to right. The banks are defined by looking downstream, left and right.
I believe that FEMA cross sections begin at the confluence of the steams as 0+00 and increase as you go upstream. At least that’s the way I remember it. It has been a while since I reviewed sections though.
Andy
@andy-bruner yeah, we were told to start stationing 0+00 at downstream confluence where the ditch meets the creek and run stationing upstream from there. But draw sections from the viewpoint perspective looking downstream. This last bit was counter-intuitive for me.
- Posted by: @brad-ottMade us look good for a new client, without redoing 40-hours of drafting.
It took 40 hours to draw cross sections? ????
@blitzkriegbob well??that??s what the project log says (& it was our first time)??
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