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Profile

The Profile dialog draws a profile showing Elevations, Distances and Grades for a Path on the layout.

Choose a Path by Left-Clicking on Defined Elevation End-Points (which are marked on the layout as Gold dots). As each End-Point is chosen, the Path is extended via the shortest route. Selecting the end of the Path removes that End-Point from the Path.

If no route is possible an error message is displayed. There are several reasons why this might happen:

The Path is drawn in Purple on the Layout.

If the shortest Path is not what you want, you can choose Defined Elevation End-Points that are closer to the end of the Path. Also, you can Ignore End-Points to prevent the Path from choosing a route through that End-Point. The Elevation Radio Button lets you set Defined Elevations by Left-Clicking or Ignored End-Points by Right-Clicking on the layout. Defined Elevations created in this way have a height of 0.0 if not on the Path. If the new Defined Elevation is on the Path then the height will based on the grade and distance at that point. If you Right-Click on an Ignored End-Point, it becomes not Ignored (None).

Each Defined Elevation End-Point on the Path is drawn as a Vertical bar, labeled with its height and distance from the beginning of the Path.

The Grade between points is displayed between the Vertical bars. The Grade line is drawn in Blue if that portion of the Path does not contain turnouts with more that 2 connections. Otherwise it is drawn in Red. See Computing Elevation for more details.

Stations on the Path are displayed along the bottom of the Profile.

You can change the heights of Defined Elevations by Left-Dragging on the Profile Window. As you Drag, the new Elevation and Grades to each side are displayed at the bottom of the Profile dialog.

The Done button closes the dialog.

The Clear button removes all points from the Path.

The Print button prints the dialog. The aspect ratio is preserved on the print-out.

The Path/Elevation Radio Button controls whether Clicking on the Layout adds points to the Path or sets a Defined and Ignored Elevation End-Point.


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