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Adding Road Objects to the Library

Feature Specification Dialog” on page 1225,
• Spline Roads and Spline Sidewalks
and “Terrain Path Specification Dialog” on
are edited along their centerline like page 1229.
CAD splines. See “Splines” on page 321.
Using the Edit Tools
• Polyline Roads , Cul-de-sacs ,
Medians , Road Markings A selected road object can be edited in a
variety of ways using the buttons on the edit
Polyline Driveways a n d Polyline toolbar. See “The Edit Toolbar” on page 38.
Sidewalks are edited along their
perimeter, like standard polylines. The Convert to Polyline Object
width is determined by the polyline’s
shape. See “Editing Closed-Polyline A selected Straight or Spline Road,
Based Objects” on page 231. Sidewalk or Driveway can be
converted into a Polyline Road, Sidewalk or
• Medians are also edited like poly- Driveway by clicking the Convert to
lines. Polyline Object edit button.
Polyline Roads, Sidewalks and Driveways
In the Specification Dialog display the same edit handles as closed
Road objects can be customized in polylines, allowing you to edit their shapes
their specification dialogs. See “Road as much as needed.
Specification Dialog” on page 1245, “Terrain

Adding Road Objects to the Library

You can create your own road objects and When a group of terrain objects from the
save them to the library. Select any library is placed into a plan, each object
combination of elevation points, elevation becomes independent and can be edited
lines, terrain features, roads, sidewalks, road individually. See “Adding Library Content”
markings, or even the terrain perimeter itself on page 932.
and send them to the library as one unit.

Road Specification Dialog

To open the Road Specification Many of the settings in this dialog are similar
dialog, select a Straight Road, Spline to those in the Terrain Path Specification
Road, Polyline Road, Median or Cul-de-sac dialog. See “Terrain Path Specification
and click the Open Object edit button. Dialog” on page 1229.

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