Graphics Programs Reference
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ChAPtER 6
Displaying
and Annotating
Alignments
As you'll find with nearly every design component you create for a land-
development project, creating the design is only half the job. Alignments serve
as the basis for further design of a linear feature, but they also serve as a means
of expressing the geometry of the feature to reviewers and contractors. The
alignment by itself doesn't tell this story in enough detail and must therefore
be stylized and annotated appropriately. In addition, alignments often serve as
baselines used to express the location of other features within the project.
In this chapter, you'll learn how to use various styles and annotations to
convey important information about alignments.
In this chapter, you'll learn to
Apply alignment styles
Apply alignment labels and label sets
Create station/offset labels
Create segment labels
Apply tag labels and tables
using Alignment Styles
As with other styles you have learned about, alignment styles are, as their
name implies, used to control the appearance and behavior of alignments.
By applying different styles, you can graphically distinguish between exist-
ing centerlines, proposed centerlines, and so on. You can even use styles to
display alignments as something completely different, such as a property
line or even a utility line. Figure 6.1 illustrates how styles enable align-
ments to represent many different things.
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