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 the geometry editor. And then inside here, on 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 will give me a view of everything associated with my alignment.
If I go ahead and select alignment grid view, what I have in here are entities telling me the number of each object for the alignment and what type of object it is, line or curve. Then I have the tangency constraints, the parameters that control it, the lengths, radii, directions, and starting stations. Many 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 your alignment and the curve radius you chose is not the one you wanted to use, you can go ahead and type in a new radius here. Then, when you hit ENTER, it will populate itself into the drawing.
So I like my radii of 150, so I'm not going to change 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 will open such as lengths of tangencies, directions of those tangencies, and those kinds of things.
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You can change those as well. Right now, those things are locked into maintaining tangency of the curves we have already drawn. We can't change those right now.
So I'm going to go ahead and close this because I'm not making any changes. Then I'm going to close this. I'm not going to bother saving because we didn't make any changes to the drawing.
I'll meet you in the next video.
