Delve into the process of creating design profiles inside windows using profile creation tools. This detailed article guides you through each step, from naming the design profile, to choosing fixed tangent points, and saving your work.
Key Insights
- The article presents a tutorial on creating two design profiles using profile creation tools, indicating how to name and label the profiles for better organization.
- The author uses a specific method of drawing a single line from one point to another, known as fixed tangent two points. This method is utilized instead of drawing tangents or tangents with curves.
- The tutorial also suggests a way to create alignments by adding a fixed tangent from the begin point to the end point, and then adding vertices afterwards, highlighting flexibility in this design process.
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In this video we're going to go ahead and create two design profiles inside the windows that we just created in the last video. So to do that I'm going to go ahead and go to profile, profile creation tools, and then I'm going to select my dev branch end profile.
I'm going to go ahead and select the name for this to be dev branch end, and then I'm going to leave it as a design profile, and I'm going to give it a complete label set. I'm going to go ahead and click okay, and then inside of here I'm going to draw a single fixed tangent two points. So rather than drawing tangents or tangents with curves, because I'm going to be drawing a single line from here to here, I've chosen to go with fixed tangent two points.
So I'm going to go ahead and go in here, select this point, select this point, and then I'm going to hit ENTER so that the profile is created, and then I'm going to hit escape and close this window. So from here I'm going to go back into profile, profile creation tools, I'm going to go to my dev main end profile. I'm going to go to the name and call it dev main end.
I'm going to leave it as a design profile. I'm going to give it a complete label set. I'm going to go ahead and click okay, and again I'm going to do a fixed tangent two points.
I'm just showing this as an option for how to create alignments, because what you can do is you can add in a fixed tangent from your begin point to your end point, and then come back and add in vertices afterwards. We'll be doing that in the next video. So I'm going to go ahead and click on fixed tangent two points.
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I'm going to select the end point here. I'm going to navigate over, select the end point over here, hit ENTER, hit escape, close the window. Now we have two profiles here that are a single line from one end point to the other end point.
I'm going to go ahead and save this drawing, and I'll meet you in the next video.
