In a majority of cases, we’re going to want to maintain the display of our alignments as we create them. Occasionally, we’ll come across a need to make some adjustments to how we are displaying our alignment, station referencing, how we are manipulating our alignment geometry, and maybe even applying a different set of design parameters to our Alignment objects.

To access any of these options, we can simply select our Alignment object in Civil 3D, right-click in Model Space, and select the Alignment Properties option. Once selected, we’ll be presented with our Alignment Properties dialog box.

Along the top of our Alignment Properties dialog box, we have the following series of tabs, where we can access these manipulation options mentioned, as shown in Figure 7.31:

Figure 7.31 – Alignment Properties: manipulation options

• Information: Allows us to make changes to our alignment name,...