Making an Alignment Current

When you work with alignments, make sure that the correct alignment is current. Alignment commands work only with a current alignment, and only one alignment can be current at a time. When you define an alignment, it becomes the current alignment automatically. You can select the current alignment either from a drawing, from the Alignment Librarian, or by alignment number. To display the Alignment Librarian, as shown in the following illustration, choose Set Current Alignment from the Alignments menu and when you are prompted to select an alignment, press ENTER.

To make an alignment current

Steps 1 From the Alignments menu, choose Set Current Alignment. The cursor turns into a pickbox. Use to locate

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Steps 2 Select the alignment using one of the following methods:

Use

to locate

If the alignment is drafted in the drawing, then click the alignment with the pickbox. When prompted to select an alignment, press ENTER, and then select the alignment from the Alignment Librarian. When prompted to select an alignment, press ENTER. Click Cancel to close the Alignment Librarian, and then enter the number of the alignment to make it current.

Editing a Road Alignment

To edit an alignment, you can either modify the geometry and redefine the alignment, or you can modify the alignment data from within the Horizontal Alignment Editor.

Use the Horizontal Alignment Editor to modify individual curve, tangent, and spiral geometry, and to generate reports based on the alignment. After you save the changes, drawing objects are automatically updated, so you do not need to redefine the alignment geometry.

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