Template Editor dialog
Templates are used to define the finished design surfaces including sub-grade, road surface layers, ditches, slopes, curbs, guard rails, medians etc. Using built-in logic, templates interact with topography to yield the completed cross section. It is important to understand that a template is not just a cross section drawing. Templates will yield different results depending on the ground conditions where the template is applied.
The Template Editor dialog allows you to change various template parameters. The effect of changing these parameters can be evaluated graphically in the editor. One of 4 "standard" ground profiles (full cut 
, full fill 
, right/left slope cuts 
) may be selected using the buttons along the right hand side of the dialog box, to view the effect of your modifications in these standard cases. The "Stn" button 
will retrieve the ground profile for a selected station.
The following items are contained in the template editor:
Template Editor Tree Control
Templates are built on a hierarchy of sub-objects. The Template Objects Tree control allows you to view and select Templates and their sub-objects.
The top level of the tree contains the Templates 
(and Component Folders 
). If you double click on a Template (or Component folder) the Components 
it contains (Roadway, Ditches, Slopes, and Custom) will appear.
The buttons below the Tree Control (Add, Delete etc.) apply to the item selected in the tree control.
Properties (right click or button)
Opens the appropriate properties dialog box for the selected item in the Tree Control.
Template Component properties:
Add (right click or button)
This creates a new item of the type selected in the tree control, and then opens the appropriate properties dialog box.
Note that the new item will be a copy of the item selected before Add (if possible).
Copy/Paste (right click).
Items (Templates, Components, Fragments and Legs) may be copied to the clipboard and then pasted into a new location. Copy and then Paste as New is almost the same as using the Add button.
Delete
Will delete the selected item in the Tree Control.
Shift Up/Down
Will shift up/down the selected item in the Tree Control. A template is calculated by working from the top down in the Tree Control and building from the centerline out; the order of items is very important.
Customize
Customize is only available if the Extended Templates function group is enabled (see Function Groups).
Merge
Select this button to merge another template table (TPL) with this one.
e-Library
This option connects to the internet and allowing you to download template component objects from the on-line library. In order for this option to work you must be connected to the internet.
Extents, Zoom -, and Zoom +
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Change the scale of the graphical display.
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View Controls
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The view controls allow you to review the currently selected in various ground typical ground situations as follows.
- Sloping to the left, right, all cut and all fill.
- Sloping to the left.
- Sloping to the right.
- All cut.
- All fill.
- Specified station.
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Redraw
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Redraw the graphics display.
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Options
Activates the Template Display Format dialog. It controls the line type, color and hatch of template surfaces in the section display windows. It also allows you to format the template leg and point code labels.
Materials
Codes
Activates the Template Codes dialog box. Template Codes dialog allows you to set-up template codes for display in the graphic and text windows.
Validate
Save Table
Saves the templates, road class specifications, codes and materials for in a file (*.tpl) for future use. This step is strictly not required unless you want to make the template information available for other designs (template information is always stored with the current design).
Open Table
Retrieves the templates, road class specifications, codes and materials from a file (*.tpl).
