Manage Road

The road settings screen is used to help you create, review or modify road elements.

From this screen you can do anyone of the following:

Define Start Station

Each road has to have a starting station defined. The starting station will place the station sign automatically for you after you enter the station. Stations generally are measured in 100 foot intervals when working in feet, and measured in 1000 metre intervals when in metric projects.

There are three station format settings that you can choose from: 0+000.000, 0+00.00, or 0.000. You can change this by going to the Main Menu | Settings | Options or by pressing the Alignment C/L button and selecting Settings.

Note: Positive or negative start stations are valid.

Define Start Point or Coordinates

Every road that you create needs to have a starting location defined. You have two options available to define this location.

Start ID

If you have a point stored in your project's database that is also the start point for the alignment, you can use this point as the start location. Simply enter the point number in the Start Pnt field, or use the point chooser to select it from the map. Once you've selected the point, the point's Northing and Easting values will be displayed. At this point, the elevation is not needed because the profile is what defines the elevations along the road.

When you use the point chooser or enter a point id, all that will happen is the coordinates for the point are written to the alignment file. The next time you open the alignment file, you will no longer see the point ID that was used, you will only see the coordinate values.

Enter Coordinates

If you don't have a point that defines the start location, you can define it by entering a Northing and Easting value. You have to leave Start ID field blank if you want to enter coordinates.