Driveway Profile

[milkatinka]

I have to draw driveway profile with vertical scale 1"=10' and horizontal 1"=60'. What's will be the offset distance between the vertical lines. The centerline of the driveway curves twice and it is not a straight horizontal line. Where should i position the profile line?

[ReMark]

Roughly speaking every .1667 inch will equal 10 feet. Close enough?

[lpseifert]

Try drawing it at true scale, make a block, insert the block at an x scale of 1 and a y scale of 6.

[milkatinka]

I attached the drawing with the driveway. Thank you for the scale advices. Can you please let me know where the profile line for the driveway will be. Will it be at an angle or it will be just a vertical line.

Project 6_2.dwg

[lpseifert]

Cant open 2010...

[JD Mather]

I have to draw driveway profile with vertical scale 1"=10' and horizontal 1"=60'.

 

Two different scales? I didn't even realize that schools were still teaching drawing scaled drawings. I've been drawing 1:1 for 20 years or more and letting the software do the layout scale.

[Coosbaylumber]

Two different scales? I didn't even realize that schools were still teaching drawing scaled drawings. I've been drawing 1:1 for 20 years or more and letting the software do the layout scale.

 

 

We have near California-wide ratio on Profile scales at 1"=4' vertical, and 1" = 40' horizontal. Most agencies sell pre-printed sheets to this scale.

 

Wm.

[JD Mather]

We have near California-wide ratio on Profile scales at 1"=4' vertical, and 1" = 40' horizontal. Most agencies sell pre-printed sheets to this scale.

 

Wm.

 

I'm not in the civil field, not sure I follow. Is this two scales on the same drawing or is this a scale for portrait orientation of the sheet and a scale for the landscape oreintation of the sheet?

[ScribbleJ]

I'm not in the civil field, not sure I follow. Is this two scales on the same drawing or is this a scale for portrait orientation of the sheet and a scale for the landscape oreintation of the sheet?

 

These scales are for exaggeration purposes only. It is to show elevation differences (especially in flat areas) clearly. All highway designs will have these exaggerated scales and most civil design will show it if the project alignment is a long one. I have never seen a case where we haven't shown an exaggerated scale myself.

 

(Ex. Horizontal scale will be 1"=10' w/ a vertical scale of 1"=2')

[lpseifert]

I'm not in the civil field, not sure I follow. Is this two scales on the same drawing or is this a scale for portrait orientation of the sheet and a scale for the landscape oreintation of the sheet?

Maybe this will help illustrate what vertical exaggeration is.

[ReMark]

Plan and Profile sheets is what we used to call them. I was in a firm that did a lot of sanitary sewer design work. In the plan portion, which was blank by the way, we would draw the existing street layout, houses, poles, topotgraphy at a scale of 1"=40". In the profile portion (we used 1"=40' horiz. and 1"=4' vertical) we would draw the sewer and manholes "in profile". The grid lines were an orange color if I recall correctly. Once in a while a town would ask for 1"=20' and 1"=2' just to be different I suppose.

[banyameen]

what that means For the driveway profile, use a vertical scale of 1″ = 10′ and a horizontal scale of 1″ = 60′. Show the stationing, however, in 50-foot increments. Therefore, when plotting the drawing, the distance between Station 0 + 00 and Station 0 + 50 will be 5⁄6 of an inch.

 

 

[ReMark]

It means just what it says.  Every inch vertically will be the equivalent of 10 feet while every inch horizontally will be the equivalent of 60 feet.  Since stationing is along the horizontal axis (and runs left to right) 0+50 would fall 5/6ths of an inch to the right of 0+00.  See example driveway profile and section below.

Edited Saturday at 12:38 PM by ReMark

[banyameen]

Thanks