About Editing Profile Curve and Straight Parameter Values

Use the Profile Elements vista and Profile Layout Parameters dialog box to display and edit parameters of profile elements that are part of the solved profile geometry.

The Profile Elements vista displays a form that is like a spread sheet, where each row represents either a profile element or VIP and each column represents a parameter. Use the VIP Based and Element Based buttons on the Profile Layout Tools toolbar to change the type of data that is displayed on the Profile Elements vista. In the Profile Elements vista, you can right-click a column heading to display options for customizing the display of detail in the column views.

The purpose of Profile Elements vista is to let you quickly scroll through the elements that make up the profile. The list displays only the entities that have been selected in the drawing window. When you select a row, the details for the corresponding element are displayed in the Profile Layout Parameters dialog box.

The Profile Layout Parameters dialog box enables you to view and change the many attributes for a single profile sub-element. The Profile Layout Parameters dialog box contains up to three panels. The Layout Parameters panel, which displays the geometric parameters of the selected sub-element, is always present. In this panel, the Value column lists the actual value of each sub-element Parameter. If the profile was created using the criteria-based design feature, the Constraint column lists the value to which a Parameter is constrained by the specified design criteria. Use the Value and Constraint columns together to view whether the sub-element parameters meet the specified design criteria. If the profile was not created using the criteria-based design feature, the Constraint column is not available.

Two additional panels may be present on the Profile Layout Parameters dialog box if the profile has design criteria applied to it. If the profile has a design criteria file associated with it, the criteria from the file are displayed in the Design Criteria panel. If the profile has a design check set associated with it, the name and contents of the design check set are displayed in the Design Checks panel.

Note: The attributes of a curve or other profile element that you can edit depends on the method you used to create the element. Generally speaking, you can edit the numeric value of a parameter if the parameter was used to define the element. For all other parameters, numeric values are calculated and displayed but cannot be edited.

Tutorial Exercise: Editing a Layout Profile