Discover the functionality of grid view for alignments and how it can provide a comprehensive overview of your project. Understand how to manipulate parameters such as radiuses to customize your alignment to suit your design needs.
Key Insights
- The article discusses using grid view for alignments in design projects, enabling a comprehensive understanding of your project's alignment, including each object, its type, and various parameters.
- You can manipulate elements of your alignment in grid view, such as changing the radius of a curve. This allows for adaptability if your initial alignment doesn't fit your design requirements.
- The article also discusses the constraints on certain parameters, which may be locked due to specific requirements or design elements, limiting the changes that can be made to them.
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We're going to go ahead and look at grid view for our alignments. So to do that, I'm going to go ahead and select my branch alignment.
I'm going to go ahead and select geometry editor. And then inside of here, what we have in the far right hand side is our sub-entity editor and our alignment grid view. So I am not going to deal with my sub-entity editor because that's dealing with individual pieces of my alignment, whereas my grid view is going to give me a view of everything that's associated with my alignment.
If I go ahead and I select alignment grid view, what I have in here is I have entities telling me each number of the object for the alignment, what type of object it is, line or curve. And then I have the tangency constraints, the parameters that control it, the lengths, radiuses, directions, starting stations. So a lot of these things are grayed out because they're locked by certain constraints.
However, as you can see here, the radius is available to be changed. If for some reason you drew in your alignment and the curve radius that you chose is not the one that you wanted to use, you can go ahead and go in here and type in a new radius. And then when you hit ENTER, it will populate itself into the drawing.
So I like my radiuses of 150, so I'm not going to be changing them. But it's important to know that if for some reason you chose a certain radius and maybe it's too tight, maybe it's too large, it doesn't fit into the design that you want to have for your drawing, then you can change these pieces of your alignment by going to grid view. Now, if you have an alignment that is less locked down like ours is, then certain constraints are going to open lengths of tangencies, directions of those tangencies, those kind of things.
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And you can change those as well. Right now, those things are kind of locked into maintaining tangency of those curves that we have already drawn in. We can't change those things right now.
So I'm going to go ahead and close this because I'm not making any changes. And then I'm going to close this. I'm not going to bother saving because we didn't make any changes to the drawing.
And I'll meet you in the next video.
