Linear navigation Follow
Linear navigation is a powerful tool supporting linear infrastructure projects, allowing you to investigate and manage alignments (or centerlines) and intervals (commonly known as stations or chainage) in Revizto projects. Alignments can be added to a project directly from supported authoring tools (such as Bentley OpenRoads, OpenRail, or Civil 3D) or by manually importing LandXML files.
Linear navigation works with other Revizto features to maximize the value of your linear infrastructure project information. You can tag issues to specific coordinates along the alignment, use the ruler to snap to alignment geometry, move section cuts along the alignment, and view alignment information in object properties.
You can show or hide the alignments in a model by clicking Show/hide alignments on the bottom toolbar.
- Required permissions
- Using linear navigation
- Managing alignments
- Managing alignment view settings
- Manually importing LandXML files
Required permissions
Managing alignment settings and importing alignments requires specific project access rights. If you are unable to manage alignment settings, contact your project or license administrator.
You can view your access rights in the Project Team tab in Revizto workspace by clicking View project role or Set project role
next to your role name. See Managing project roles for more information.
- To import alignments, delete or edit alignments, and manage alignment settings, you need:
- Manage all 3D models
- To view alignments and manage local view settings, you need:
- Add new 3D models
Using linear navigation
Alignments can be navigated and managed using the Linear navigation tool within the 3D environment of Revizto. The linear navigation pane will open in the upper-left corner of the model. If the navigator pane is closed, clicking Linear navigation
again will reopen it.
The linear navigation pane allows you to move along the selected alignment by either jumping to a specific interval or moving sequentially forwards or backwards.
To use linear navigation:
- Open the linear navigation pane by clicking Linear navigation
on the toolbar.
- Select the alignment from the dropdown menu. Only active alignments will be available.
- To change which alignments are active, refer to Activate or deactivate alignments.
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Use the navigation pane controls to navigate the alignment.
- Jump to a specific interval by clicking the interval field, and either selecting or typing the interval you want to move to.
- Move forward (next) or backwards (previous) by minor intervals, by selecting the single arrow
. To set the minor interval, go to Configure intervals.
- Move forward (next) or backwards (previous) by major intervals, by selecting the double arrow
. To set the major interval, go to Configure intervals.
- If custom steps are enabled, move forward (next) or backwards (previous) by the set distance by selecting the arrow
. Custom steps are configured and enabled in the More
menu as described below.
Click More on the linear navigation pane for additional navigation and configuration options:
| Cut and look towards next interval | Sets your view of the model to cut through the alignment, facing the direction of the next interval. |
| Cut and look towards previous interval | Sets your view of the model to cut through the alignment, facing the direction of the previous interval. |
| Top-down view | Sets your view of the model to look down on the project geometry from above. |
| Cut vertically | Section cut is vertical to the alignment slope. |
| Cut perpendicular to profile | Section cut is perpendicular to the alignment slope. |
| Configure custom step | Sets a custom distance to move along the alignment. Once a custom step is configured you can activate or deactivate the step by selecting the Activate custom step checkbox in the menu. If a custom step is activated, the major and minor interval arrow controls in the linear navigator will be replaced by a custom step arrow control |
| Jump to start |
Move to the beginning of the selected alignment. The starting coordinate for the selected alignment will be listed here. |
| Jump to end |
Move to the end of the current alignment. The ending coordinate for the selected alignment will be listed here. |
From this menu you can also access Manage alignments and Alignment view settings which are described in the following sections.
Managing alignments
You can manage most alignment settings from the Manage alignments page. These settings include activating and deactivating alignments, configuring intervals, setting alignment colors, enabling location tagging, and selecting alignment units. These settings are project-wide, so any changes you make here will be applied for all other project members after syncing their project.
Manage alignments can be opened from the linear navigation pane tool in the 3D environment of Revizto or from the Edit menu.
- Open the linear navigation pane by clicking Linear navigation
on the toolbar.
- In the navigation pane, click More
.
- Click Manage alignments.
To open Manage alignments from the Edit menu:
- Click Edit.
- Click Manage Alignments.
Manage alignments can also be opened by going to the Project Properties menu and clicking Edit next to Alignments.
Most alignment settings are under the Actions menu in the upper-right corner of the alignments list. The available settings and actions in this menu will be determined by the selected alignments.
The following sections detail each alignment setting.
Set alignment units
Alignment units are applied project-wide and are the measuring units used specifically for alignments. They are not automatically matched to the measurement units set for the project in general.
To change alignment units:
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Click the Alignment units dropdown menu at the top of the alignments list.
- Select the measurement units: Meters (m), Survey feet (sft), or Feet (ft).
- Click OK to confirm that intervals will be recalculated.
When alignment units are changed, the interval numbers will remain the same but all interval measurements will need to be recalculated to match the new units. For example, if the intervals were originally 150 meters/50 meters and you switch to survey feet, the intervals will now be 150 survey feet/50 survey feet.
Default alignment settings
The default alignment settings establish basic alignment data such as major and minor intervals, colors, and location tagging. If an alignment is published to Revizto without any of these settings, the default settings are applied when the alignment is imported or published to Revizto for the first time. Usually alignments imported from an authoring tool will have this data available, so default alignment settings will primarily apply to alignments imported directly from LandXML files.
To edit the default alignment settings:
- Click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Default alignment settings.
- Edit any of the following:
- Location tagging
- Major interval, major interval dash length, or major interval color
- Enable minor intervals
- Minor interval, minor interval dash length, or minor interval color
- Centerline color
- Click Apply.
Label format
This setting controls how interval labels are displayed for alignments throughout the project.
To edit the label format:
- Click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Label format.
- Edit any of the following:
- Separator (maximum of four characters including spaces)
- Number of characters dropdown menu
- Display trailing zeros.
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Click Apply.
The Preview section will show you an example of the label format before you apply it.
Location tagging proximity
This setting controls how close an issue needs to be to an alignment for the issue to be tagged with that location's information.
To set the location tagging proximity:
- Click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Location tagging proximity (project-wide).
- Edit the proximity measurement.
- Click Apply.
The location tagging proximity applies to all alignments in the project.
This setting allows you to set major and minor intervals, dash lengths, and centerline and interval colors. If you select multiple alignments, the same interval and color configurations will apply to all of them.
Colors can also be changed through Change colors.
- In the list of alignments, select the checkbox next to alignments you want to edit. This can be one or multiple.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Configure intervals.
- Edit any of the following:
- Major interval, major interval dash length, or major interval color
- Enable minor intervals
- Minor interval, minor interval dash length, or minor interval color
- Centerline color.
- Click Apply.
This option allows you to change the color of the centerline, minor interval, or major interval. If you select multiple alignments, the same color change will apply to all of them.
Colors can also be changed through Configure intervals.
- In the list of alignments, select the checkbox next to alignments you want to edit. This can be one or multiple.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Change colors.
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Select the element you want to change the color of: Centerline color, Minor interval color, Major interval color.
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Select the color using the wheel, sliders, a hex color code, or recent colors.
- You can reset the element to the default color by clicking Reset color at the top of the window.
- You can delete recently used colors by clicking Delete
next to Recent and selecting the colors you want to remove. Click Done or Delete
to close the delete option.
- Click OK.
Alignments can be activated or deactivated at any time. When an alignment is deactivated, it will not be available in the 3D environment until it is activated again.
- Select the alignments you want to activate or deactivate.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
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Select Activate or Deactivate.
- If you select alignments in the same state, only the opposite state will be available. For example, if all alignments are already activated, only Deactivate will be available.
- If you select alignments in mixed states, both options will be available and the selected option will apply to the alignments not in that state. For example, if you select a mix of activate and inactive alignments, then select Activate, the inactive alignments will be activated.
Selecting the Hide deactivated alignments checkbox at the top of the page will hide inactive alignments in the alignments list. Unchecking the box will show all alignments in the model. Inactive alignments will be greyed out and will not show other settings such as centerline color or intervals. Activating inactive alignments will return their previous settings (such as colors and intervals).
Enable or disable location tagging
This allows you to select certain alignments for issue location tagging. If location tagging is disabled for an alignment, then that alignment's information will not appear in any issue or clash metadata.
- Select the alignments you want to enable or disable location tagging for.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
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Select Enable location tagging or Disable location tagging.
- If you select alignments in the same state, only the opposite state will be available. For example, if all alignments already have location tagging enabled, only Disable location tagging will be available.
- If you select alignments in mixed states, both options will be available and the selected option will apply to the alignments not in that state. For example, if you select a mix of alignments with and without location tagging enabled, then select Enable location tagging, the alignments without location tagging will have it enabled.
Link transform to scene
This allows you to link an alignment to the coordinates or origin point of a chosen scene, allowing the alignment to move or rotate with that scene. This is most useful for alignments that have been imported manually from LandXML files as alignments published directly from an authoring tool will be automatically linked to the appropriate scenes in the model.
To link an alignment to a scene's transform:
- In the list of alignments, select the checkbox next to alignments you want to link. This can be one or multiple.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Link transform to scene.
- Under Target scene, select the scene you want to link the alignments to.
- Click Apply.
The linked scene will be listed next to the alignment in the alignment list.
To reset a linked transform:
- In the list of alignments, select the checkbox next to alignments you want to unlink. This can be one or multiple.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
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Select Reset transform.
- Confirm the reset by clicking Reset transform in the dialog.
The alignment will no longer be linked to the scene's transform and will return to the positioning set by its internal coordinate systems.
Delete alignment
To delete an alignment:
- In the list of alignments, select the checkbox next to alignments you want to delete. This can be one or multiple.
- Right-click the alignments or click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Delete.
- Confirm deleting the alignment by clicking OK in the dialog.
Managing alignment view settings
Alignment view settings are local to your device and control how you see alignments in your project. The Alignment view settings can be opened from the linear navigation pane in the 3D environment of Revizto.
To change alignment view settings:
- Open the linear navigation pane by clicking Linear navigation
on the toolbar.
- Click More
.
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Click Alignment view settings.
- Select the checkbox next to the settings you want to change.
- Close the Alignment view settings window. The view settings will be changed immediately.
Alignment view settings include the following:
| Show alignments in 3D |
Select this checkbox to show alignments in the 3D model. This is the same as using Show/hide alignments |
| Current alignments |
Controls if you see the centerline or intervals on the currently selected alignment. Select the centerline or interval checkboxes to make those elements visible on the alignment.
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| Other alignments |
Controls if you see the centerline or intervals for each active alignment in the 3D model other than the current alignment. Select the centerline or interval checkboxes next to an alignment to make those elements visible on that alignment.
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Manually importing LandXML files
Alignments can be manually imported into your project through the Manage alignments menu.
To import LandXML files into a project with alignments:
- Navigate to the Manage alignments menu.
- Click Actions
in the upper-right corner of the alignment list.
- Select Import LandXML.
- Select the LandXML files on your device that you want to import.
- In the Import LandXML window select the default settings for the new alignments.
- Click Apply.
The LandXML files will be added as new alignment information or updates to existing alignments.
To import LandXML files into a project without alignments:
- Open the Edit menu.
- Click Manage Alignments.
- You can also open Project Properties then click Edit
next to Alignments.
- You can also open Project Properties then click Edit
- Click Import LandXML
- Select the LandXML files on your device that you want to import.
- In the Import LandXML window select the default settings for the new alignments.
- Click Apply.