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Selecting Profile Sub-entities

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Select an entire profile or a range of sub-entities in order to precisely edit them.

Select an entire profile by clicking it. Select an individual profile sub-entity or range or sub-entities by Ctrl+clicking.

After you have selected a profile entity, you can use a variety of editing tools.

If the Profile Entities vista and Profile Layout Tools toolbar are open, selecting a sub-entity or range of sub-entities in a profile causes the selected sub-entities to display in the Profile Entities vista. Selecting sub-entities or ranges of sub-entities in a different profile causes that range of selected sub-entities to display in the Profile Entities vista and have focus of the Profile Layout Tools toolbar. The last object selected becomes the current object and has focus of the profile editing tools.

To select an entire profile

  1. Click the profile.

    Grips are displayed along the profile.

  2. Use the desired tools to edit the profile:

To Edit the profile by...

see this topic:

adding constraint-based fixed, free, or floating tangents and curves

Adding Tangents and Curves to a Layout Profile

changing the profile at the points of vertical intersection

Editing PVIs

deleting profile sub-entities

Deleting Profile Subentities

using grips or entering precise parameter values

Editing Curve and Tangent Attributes

To select a single profile sub-entity

  1. In the drawing window, click the profile.
  2. Click Profile tabModify Profile panelGeometry Editor.
  3. In the Profile Layout Tools toolbar, click Entity Based to enable the profile entity editing tools.
  4. In the Profile Layout Tools toolbar, click Profile Grid View.

    The Profile Entities vista displays attributes for all profile sub-entities.

  5. In the drawing window, Ctrl+click the desired profile sub-entity.

    The selected sub-entity is highlighted in the drawing, and the Profile Entities vista displays attributes for only the selected profile sub-entity.

  6. Edit the profile sub-entity by entering specific attribute values in the Profile Entities vista.

    See Editing Curve and Tangent Attributes for more information.

    Note

    The Profile Entities vista displays the attributes of only the selected sub-entity.

To select a range of profile sub-entities

  1. Click the profile. Click Profile tabModify Profile panelGeometry Editor .
  2. In the Profile Layout Tools toolbar, click Entity Based to enable the profile entity editing tools.
  3. In the Profile Layout Tools toolbar, click Profile Grid View.

    The Profile Entities vista displays attributes for all profile sub-entities.

  4. In the drawing window, Ctrl+click the profile sub-entity at the beginning of the desired range.

    The selected sub-entity is highlighted in the drawing, and the Profile Entities vista displays attributes for only the selected profile sub-entity.

  5. In the drawing window, Ctrl+click the profile sub-entity at the end of the desired range.

    The selected range of sub-entities is highlighted in the drawing, and the Profile Entities vista displays attributes for only the selected profile sub-entities.

  6. Edit the profile sub-entities by entering specific attribute values in the Profile Entities vista.

    See Editing Curve and Tangent Attributes for more information.

    Note

    The Profile Entities vista displays the attributes of only the selected sub-entities.

Ribbon

Click the profile. Click Profile tabModify Profile panelGeometry Editor

Menu

Click Profiles menu Edit Profile Geometry

Command Line

EditProfileLayout

Profile Layout Tools Toolbar Icon

Profile Grid View

Dialog Box

Profile Layout Tools


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