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Tools palette overview

The Tools palette contains most of the tools you will use to construct the features of your plan.

tools

You can hover your mouse over each Tool to reveal its contents. Continue reading for more information on what each tool icon contains.

  1. Roads - This displays each of the tools you can use to construct your road way.

    See Drawing a road.

    Roads
    road iconRoadturn lane iconTurn lane
    ar road iconArc roadroundabout iconRoundabout
    road corner iconRoad cornerroad region iconRoad region
    intersection editorIntersection Editor

  2. Infrastructure - This displays infrastructure you may need to construct your plan including train tracks, bicycle lanes, etc.

    See Road infrastructure tools.

    Infrastructure
    train tracks iconTrain trackscrosswalk iconCrosswalk
    island iconIslandbicycle lane iconBicycle lane
    parking bay iconParking baysidewalk iconSidewalk

  3. Devices - This displays devices such as delineators, arrow board and lane status.

    See Delineators and the devices pages in this category.

    Devices
    delineator iconDelineatorbuffered delineator iconBuffered delineator
    arrow board iconArrow boardvms board iconVMS board
    lane status iconLane statuslums board iconLUMS board
    mms iconMulti message sign

  4. Markings - This displays various lane markings.

    See Road marking tools.

    Markings
    lane marker iconLane markerflush median iconFlush median
    chevron flush median iconChevron flush medianlane mask iconLane mask
    road mask iconRoad mask

  5. Zones - This includes a work area zone and a safety zone.

    See Work Area and Safety Zone tools.

    Zones
    work area iconWork areasafety zone iconSafety zone

  6. Annotations - This includes necessary annotation features for your plan such as a scale marker and a legend box.

    See the annotation pages in Devices, Markers and Annotations.

    Annotations
    north arrow iconNorth Arrowscale marker iconScale marker
    legend box iconLegend boxmanifest box iconManifest box
    titlebox iconTitleboxnumber stamperNumber stamper
    zoomed view box iconZoomed view box

  7. Markers - This displays distance markers, an area marker and an angle marker.

    See Distance markers and Chainage markers.

    Markers
    offset distance marker iconDistance markercombined distance marker iconCombined distance marker
    offset distance marker iconOffset distance markerangle marker iconAngle marker
    area marker iconArea markercombined offset distance markerCombined offset distance marker

  8. Lines - This displays various line shapes that can be used.

    See Line and shape tools.

    Lines
    polylinePolylinesplineSpline
    bezierBezierarrowArc
    arrowArrowmarked pathMarked path

  9. Shapes - These simple shape tools allow you to create your own objects and signs for your plans.

    See Line and shape tools.

    Shapes
    round rectangleRectangleelipseElipse
    rounded rectangleRounded rectanglepolygonPolygon
    filled splineFilled splinefilled bezierFilled Bezier
    grid iconGridar pieArc pie
    cloud shapeCloud Shape

  10. Text - These text options can allow you to add a text box, name roads, hyperlinks and create signs.

    See Text tools.

    Text
    text objectText objecttext boxText box
    text pairText pairarrow textArrow text
    callout boxCallout boxpath textPath text
    text tableText tablehyperlinkHyperlink
    rich textRich Text

  11. Image - This allows you to open an image from your computer to your plan.

    Image
    imageImport image