Delete an alignment from either the drawing window or the Toolspace Prospector tab.
When you delete an alignment element, the Tangency Constraint of adjacent elements automatically changes as necessary.
For example, if you have a free curve between two fixed lines, and you delete the second line, then the curve will be changed to Constrained By Preceding (Floating). This happens because a free entity can exist only between two fixed entities.
To delete an alignment from the drawing window
When you delete an alignment from the drawing window, the dependent objects will also be deleted. If you select the alignment in the drawing window and press Delete, the corridor and profile are cleared from the drawing window. The profile is also deleted from Prospector because it is a child of the alignment object. The corridor object is still present in Prospector because the alignment was only one of the objects from which it was created. You can add another alignment to the corridor as a baseline, and then rebuild the corridor.
- Select an alignment in the drawing.
- Press Delete.
To delete an alignment from Prospector
If other objects were created from an alignment, you cannot use Prospector to delete the alignment. For example, a profile and corridor can be created from an alignment. If you right-click the alignment in the Prospector, the Delete option is not available.
- In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, select the alignment object.
- Right-click. Click Delete.
To delete an alignment sub-element from the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar
- Click the alignment. Click
Find. - On the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar, click
Delete Sub-Element. - Click the sub-element in the drawing.
The Tangency Constraint of adjacent elements automatically changes as necessary.
- Press Enter to end the Delete Sub-Element command.
To delete an alignment sub-element using the Delete key
- Ctrl+click an alignment sub-element in the drawing.
- Press Delete.
The Tangency Constraint of adjacent elements automatically changes as necessary.