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Using the Cross Section Elements in a Profile

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Editing a Ditch or Transition

Horizontal Alignment

After you have defined the ditch or transition as an alignment, use the Edit Plan

Alignment command to edit it.

To edit a ditch or transition horizontal alignment

From the Cross Sections menu, choose Ditch/Transition

Edit Plan

Alignment to display the Horizontal Alignment Editor with the current

alignment data.

For more information, see Using the Cross Section Elements in a Plan

Alignment in this chapter.

Using the Cross Section Elements in a Profile

Often you find that when you attach a transition or ditch line to the cross

sections, you need to make edits to the offset and elevation data. You can use

either the Edit Design Control command or the View/Edit Sections command to

edit the transition values. After editing the ditch and transition cross section

information, you can use commands in the Ditch/Transition submenu on the

Cross Sections menu to import this information into the plan or profile view.

There are a number of reasons why you would import these lines into the plan

or profile. For example, if you defined a ditch by profile elevations and a fixed

side slope, then you can import the ditch lines into plan to view the location of

the ditch. After these lines are imported, you can make any necessary edits, and

then define them as a horizontal or vertical alignment. If the ditch or transition

lines were originally attached to the cross sections from alignments, you can

import these lines into the plan or profile to merge the changes into the