10.17. Reverse Vertical Alignment

This command is used to invert a vertical alignment file. The process is performed by inverting the vertex stations, maintaining the same distance between them and leaving the transition’s curves values unchanged. An example of running this command is shown below.

Original vertical alignment:

0.000	540.062	0.000	0.000	0.000
177.763	563.330	55.000	7.901	0.567
302.571	543.810	300.000	40.962	2.796
870.839	610.115	0.000	0.000	0.000

Inverted vertical alignment:

0.000	610.115	0.000	0.000	0.000
568.268	543.810	300.000	40.962	2.796
693.076	563.330	55.000	7.901	0.567
870.839	540.062	0.000	0.000	0.000

Review Vertical Alignment

This application allow us to edit and visualize a vertical alignment (ras file) and to also visualize the terrain’s long section (lon file) as reference.

Once we run the application, we’ll see something similar to this:

Along this document we are going to detail each of the parts, as a general overview we can distinguish multiple sections in the application’s interface:

· Title bar: At the top, the orange bar. The application’s title appears at the left side. To the right we can find some options: Settings, Help and About us. Further to the right we have the usual window’s controls: minimize, maximize/restore and close.

· Toolbar: Just under the title bar. It allow us to manage the state of the view and to access to all the different edition tools.

· CAD View: The application provides a CAD view in which the vertical alignment will be represented as polylines, it also allow us to take measures.

· Vertical Alignment’s Panel: Under the CAD view we can see a panel with the active vertical alignment’s information.

· Status bar: At the window’s bottom, the orange bar. It provide us with general information as: the cursor coordinates in the drawing, the vertical alignment’s elevation and (if there’s a longitudinal loaded) the terrain’s height and height difference. It’ll also show information messages during the edition commands