Create profile styles

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We're going to create a new profile style that we can use for designing with

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that will show clearly the differences in our design geometry

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in the settings, tab expand profile and then profile styles.

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When we create a new style,

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it's often quicker and easier to create a copy of an

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existing style that already has some of the settings you need

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and then edit it,

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select the proposed style, right click and choose copy

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in your copy,

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rename it to design style.

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The naming of the style should convey to a user what the style can be used for.

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You can also give it a description

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rather than changing the style. Now

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we will first save it and apply it to a profile.

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Then when we edit it, we can apply changes to see the result in the drawing,

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click OK to save the style

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and in the drawing, use the profile properties to apply the new design style

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to the design profile.

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Now go back to the settings, right? Click on the style and choose edit

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on the design tab. There is a curve tessellation setting,

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it controls how the curves on a profile are approximated

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as tessellated lines in a 3d view.

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We'll leave this set to 1 ft

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on the Marcus tab. We can see a list of profile geometry positions

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against which we can assign a marker style to be displayed.

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We'll add the alignment geometry marker

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which is just a circle

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to the begin profile and end profile geometry positions

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at the bottom of the tab. There are settings for a direction arrow

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here, you can set the arrow style

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and control. What happens if the arrow is too large to fit on a segment

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or change the size options for the arrow to make it annotative

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change the options to use drawing scale and set the size to 0.3.

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It will now display at 0.3 of an inch on the plotted drawing at all scales

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to see the arrow go to the display tab

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and for the arrow component, turn on the light bulb and click apply

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on the display tab. We have settings for different view directions,

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model

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profile and section.

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For model view direction,

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the profile will be displayed as a line in 3d

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will leave the default color and line style for this.

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For the profile view direction. This will control what we see in a profile view.

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Each component of the profile is listed

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with settings that can be changed individually.

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We can control the visibility of each component using the light bulb.

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You can also set the layer for each component

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and then use the layer settings to also control the display.

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We can set the color

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line type,

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line type scale

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and line weight

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for lines,

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set the color to yellow.

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Click apply to see the change

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set circular curve to blue.

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For symmetrical parabolas set the color to red

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and for asymmetrical parabolas to magenta.

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This will enable us to identify the different geometry types. Visually.

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Click apply.

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We can see on this profile. We only have lines and symmetrical parabolas

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hold the shift key down to select all four

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elements and then set the line type to continuous

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and the line weight to 0.3.

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I'll apply this to show you the line weights

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turn off the direction arrow as we don't need to see this.

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The line and curve extensions are the dash

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lines that are drawn to the intersection point,

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select them both and change the color to 253.

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We want them to be lighter shade,

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set, the line type to dash two

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and the line type scale to one.

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The warning symbol and notification symbol control

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the display of warnings on the profile

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will leave these turned on

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on the section view direction. There is only one component.

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If we created a cross section that cut through an alignment,

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it will display a marker where it cuts through the profile.

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However,

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the settings in here are largely redundant as they

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are overridden by settings for the section view,

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click OK to save the star

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the red ground profile

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doesn't show very well on a dark screen,

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we edit the style to change the color,

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select the surface profile, right click and choose edit profile style

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in the display tab. For profile view,

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select the main geometry elements and change the color to 63

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and change the line type to continuous.

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Now that we have set our styles,

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we'll add some annotation in the form of profile labels

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that will display geometry information.