Control Centre

Display the Control Centre.

This function allows you to display the Control Centre, which displays information about the following objects in the drawing:

• Layers

• Line styles

• Text Styles

• Dimension Styles

• Multiline Styles

• Hatch Patterns

• Blocks

• Named Views

• Named DPs

You can toggle the visibility of drawing layers by right-clicking the Visibility icon.

Procedure

The Control Centre displays in it's last position.

It can be freestanding or attached to the left, right, top or bottom of the drawing area by clicking on it's Title Bar and dragging it to the required position.

Drawing Tab

The Drawing tab displays the information of all the style objects in the drawing:

• Line Styles

• Text Styles

• Dimension Styles

• Multiline Styles

• Table Styles

• Multileader Styles

• Hatch Patterns

• Blocks

• Named Viewports

• Named DPs

1. If you click on an object type in the left pane of the Control Centre, samples or previews of all objects of that type will be listed in the right pane.

2. You can select an item on the right of the list, right-click and display a popup menu with options for that item.

Layers Tab

1. Click the Layers tab to display information about the layers in the drawing.

2. Layer visibility and lock status can be changed by clicking on the relevant icon in the list.

3. The current layer is drawn in red. You can also set the current layer by right-clicking on the relevant layer in the list.

Block Browser Tab

1. Click the Block Browser tab to display a folder tree of available block files (symbol files).

2. Click a block file in the left pane to list all the blocks in that file.

3. Right-click a block in the right-hand pane to display a popup menu with these options:

• Import Selected Blocks - Add the selected blocks to the current drawing.

• Reset Filter - Clear the current block name filter.

• Hide Block Names - Hide the names of the blocks in the list.

• Select All - Select all the blocks in the list.

• Clear Selection - Make sure no blocks are selected.

4. You can also double-click a block to import and insert it.

Change Path

If you want to browse blocks from a different folder, click Change Path to select a new root folder for the Block Browser. The folders and DR4 files under the new root folder will be displayed in the Block Browser folder tree in the left pane.

If you select a new root folder, the Change Path button will change to Reset Path. Click Reset Path to reset the root folder back to its default location - "AllyCAD 2D Symbols" folder.

Block Name Filter

If a large number of blocks are listed in the right pane, you can use the Filter option to display only blocks whose names begin with the characters you enter in the Filter input box.

The block name filter stays active even if you select a different symbol file. Remove the filter by deleting all the characters in the Filter input box, or right-click and select Reset filter.

Roads Mode

In the Control Centre, select the Roads icon to open the Roads Control Centre, which contains three tabs:

• Roads

• Extract Strings

• Clashes

Roads Tab

Extract Strings Tab

You can control the strings that have been extracted from the CAD/DTM from the Control Centre. You can access the same functionality by selecting Alignment ► Regression ► Extract String but this page is just for convenience. From this page you can:

• Indicate (target) CAD entities from which data will be extracted.

• Release (un-target) a string so it will be calculated from the edge control spreadsheets.

• Edit the extraction settings.

• Recalculate the road.

Stake Line Extraction Sections

1. To indicate CAD/Road Strings target entities for an extraction section, click on the appropriate spreadsheet icon.

2. In the Target entities dialog, specify if you want to extract from CAD entities or Road entities.

3. Click Road Entities only and follow the same process of selecting road strings as per the Extract Strings function.

4. The red stake line extraction sections indicate that you need to recalculate. Right-click and select Road Recalculate.

5. When you select a Stake Line extraction section, the target entity will be highlighted.

Vertical Alignment Extraction Sections

1. Right-click the Vertical Alignment node and select the Add Extraction range option to display the following bar:

2. Enter the start and stop chainage of the vertical extraction range you would like to add and click OK. Alternatively, click on the respective Indicate buttons to graphically indicate the chainage.

3. Civil Designer will add VPIs into the Vertical Alignment definition for the extraction range. Bear in mind that extraction ranges are not allowed to overlap with existing vertical curves.

4. Once the extraction ranges have been added, you can click the Spreadsheet icon to indicate the target entities.

5. Once the extraction ranges have been inserted, you can delete them by selecting an extraction, right-clicking and selecting the Delete Extraction Range option. Civil designer will automatically delete the appropriate extraction VPIs from the vertical alignment definition.

Clashes Tab