With this method, command Draw with Stick Method, you “stick” the horizontal elements together in a sequence.
Click on the icon Draw with Stick Method.
Select a start point of the first element or the horizontal alignment element from which you want to continue your drawing.
A dialog box that appears has three tabs for drawing: line, arc, and spiral. Some of the parameters found in the tab are fixed and cannot be modified according to the previous element.
This tutorial shows how to draw a section of the line, spiral, and arc.
Drawing line
Define direction and length or an end point of the line.
You can enter parameters manually to the appropriate field or select them interactively by selecting the button and dragging the auxiliary line in the drawing.
Press Draw to get your horizontal element drawn with its labels included.
Spiral drawing
You can define a spiral in three ways.
- you can define a start point, start angle, and end point,
- you can define a start point, start angle, radius, and length,
- you can define the start point, start angle, and the A parameter.
In case the radius, length, or parameter haven’t been defined, you just select a spiral end point by pressing and define it in the drawing.
Click Draw to get horizontal element drawn.
Arc drawing
Arc can be defined using three different methods.
- In the first method define three points,
- in the second one define the start point, start angle, and end point,
- in the third one define a start point, start angle, radius, and length.
Also, arc parameters can be defined manually or by dragging an auxiliary arc with the button.
Press Draw.
By pressing the button Back you can go one step back. Program erases the last drawn element and continues its drawing from the previous one.
Click End to finish your drawing.
After drawing the main elements, the Draw lanes and widening dialog box appears, where you choose the appropriate vehicle combination to calculate widenings.