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Edit alignment geometry

Edit alignment geometry - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Edit alignment geometry

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- [Instructor] As you probably already guessed there are many tools available to edit alignments. Let's explore some of those tools in this video. A quick review of one way of editing that you already learned in the previous video and that's graphically using grips. If I click on an alignment, I see a series of grips with different shapes; squares, circles, and triangles. The square grips control the ends of tangents and the midpoints of tangents. Circular grips typically are related to curves. So here I can control the pass through point or the location of the PC or PT. Here I've got a triangular grip controlling the PI and another one controlling the radius of the curve. So that's a very quick graphical way to edit alignments in your drawing. Now, let's take a look at a way that's a little more in depth and a little more functional. This time I'll select this alignment. And as you may recall, from an earlier video…

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