With the edition controls we can perform diverse edition commands on CAD view’s entities (profiles and drawn polylines)
Draw polyline: Runs the draw polyline CAD command. If we press the backspace key while drawing, the last inserted vertex will be removed. The command can be finished by pressing Enter or Escape keys.
Add vertex: Runs the add vertex command. As first step we must select a linear entity to add the vertex to. In case of drawn polylines, the vertex will be added in the nearest segment to the cursor at the moment of selecting the entity. In case of longitudinal profiles, the vertex will be added at the cursor’s coordinates, setting the previous and next vertices according to the X projection of the new vertex (given that in a longitudinal profile the Station is always growing and can’t have two heights at the same Station)
Remove vertex: Runs the remove vertex command. As first step we must select a linear entity. After that, the entity’s vertices will be shown as hotspots and, if we click one of them, the vertex will be removed.
Remove vertices range: Runs the remove vertices range command. As first step we must select a linear entity. After that, the entity’s vertices will be shown as hotspots. We have to click two vertices, the first and last, both will be removed along with all the vertices between them.
Remove vertices in window: Runs the remove vertices in window command. As first step we must select a linear entity. After that, the entity’s vertices will be shown as hotspots. We have to set the two corners of the window, all the vertices contained within the window will be removed.
Merge polylines: Runs the merge polylines command. As first step we must select the polyline that we want to modify with the merging. After that, we must select the polyline to merge with. Once both polylines are selected, they will be merged according to two criteria: if they intersect, between the first and last intersection points all the original polyline’s vertices will be removed and the merge polyline’s vertices will be added. Otherwise, the original polyline’s vertices closest to the extremes of the merge polyline will be found and the merge will be done in that range. Once the command finishes, the merge polyline is removed.
Quick edit: It’s a shortcut to first run the commands: draw polyline and then merge polylines. If we run the quick edit command, we’ll first enter the draw polyline command. Once the polyline is confirmed, the merge polyline command will run automatically, selecting as merge polyline the polyline that we just drawn. This command won’t end by itself; it should be finished by pressing Enter or Escape, or with the analogous functions in the context menu.
Convert polyline: Converts a regular polyline from the drawing into a longitudinal profile. We’ll just have to select the polyline to convert and then the new lon file’s path will be requested. The new file will be automatically added to the application for edition.
Discard points by window: Once we extract a profile from points automatically, this command will be enabled when the extracted profile is active. This command allows us to set a window and then all the points contained in the window will be discarded from the profile extraction process, so the profile will be recalculated in the affected range and the polyline will readapt.
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