Generate Road Long Section
To generate a road long section on a separate layout.
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This function allows you to generate a long section of
a road in a separate layout window suitable for printing or saving.
Procedure
- The Plot
Setup displays.
- Select the Single Carriageway Longsection
sheet file from the sample sheetfile directory, as shown below.
- Set the sheet size to A0 and click Next.
- The Road
Long Section Setup displays.
- The first step is to specify what road data must be included in
the long section. This is done in the highlighted table. In this example,
you want to plot and label the original ground line. Therefore, the
CL Peg row has been set to Yes
under the Plot and Label columns, with the elevation to be extracted
from the Original Design layer.
- Similarly, you want to plot and label the road centreline levels
as shown below.
- In this example, you also want to include the levels of the left
and right shoulder break points. This is done by extracting the elevation
using the Point
Location Code.
- When you have set the PLC to Yes and
you double-click on the offset column, a list of available point location
codes displays.
If the road will extend beyond
one long section and you wish to create long sections for the full
length of the road, simply select the Auto scroll
to next page checkbox.
- Click Next to display the
Long Section Editor where you can check that the correct data has
been extracted for the long section.
Click Finish
to generate the long section(s).
- If there is Custom Global
or Plan Text in the brackets (<>), the Custom Strings for
Plan and Global Titles
dialog displays.
Here you
can edit all the custom text in one place. The Field column contains the
custom text and the Text column contains a replica of it which can be
edited.
If Apply to all layouts is not
selected and there are multiple layouts in the plot set, clicking OK will cause it to appear
again with the edit values of the previous layout. You can now change
it per plot. Alternatively, you can select Apply
to all layouts, which will apply it to all the layouts in
the plot set and the dialog will not pop up again during the plot set.
Note that
this dialog will not appear during a Force Dynamic Plot.
- Upon completion, the dialog will close and a new layout is added
to the drawing with the long section.