Locate Along Network

Select Link Sequence

With the Select Link Sequence menu, you have two options:

• Select Alignment Task

• Select Link Sequence

The Select Alignment Task menu choice opens a dialog in which you can select one or more alignment tasks with link sequences. If you select more than one alignment task, the tool will connect the selected objects to the nearest link sequence represented by the selected alignment tasks.

When choosing Select Link Sequence, you have the opportunity to select one or more link sequences by clicking on them with the left mouse button. If you want to select more than one link sequence, you must hold down the Ctrl-button while clicking on the link sequences.

Link sequences can be found in the Explorer as Result NetElements below alignment tasks:

Or you can scroll to the bottom of the Explorer to see all the network elements (Link sequences / NetElements) in the model.

Apply as point connection

If you have a short object (shorter than a decimeter e.g.) that you want to connect to the network, then you sometimes want to connect it with a point connection and not an extension connection. This you can control by this option

Example

In the example image on the right, a manhole has been connected to the alignment (network element).

The chainage/stationing used to connect the manhole is perpendicular to the alignment - this can be seen in the image below. The Network Location can be found at the bottom of the properties window, under Along Network. Since the geometry of the manhole is a 3D solid, it gives a range of 69.7 m - 70.7 m; this is the start and end location of the manhole geometry. If the geometry type was point instead, it would give one chainage/station value for the point, rather than a range