Product Manual

Properties Window
MAGNET Tools ver 1.0
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• Chord
- the length of the segment joining the start and end points
of a curve.
• Tangent
- the length of the segment which touches the given
curve.
• Mid Ord (Middle Ordinate)
- the distance from the midpoint of a
chord to the midpoint of the corresponding curve.
• External
- the distance from the midpoint of the curve to the
intersection point of the tangents.
For
Spiral TS to SC the tab contains the fields:
• Length
- the length of the horizontal element. You can edit this
value.
• Turn
- the direction of the curve turn. The Right value stands for
clockwise direction and the Left value for counter- clockwise
direction. You can edit the direction for a
Curve and Spiral
horizontal alignment type.
• Radius
- the end radius of the curve. You can edit the value.
• Azimuth
- the azimuth of the tangent to the start point of the
horizontal alignment. You can edit this value only for the starting
element of the road (in this case “Tangential to previous element”