Composite element

Module(s): Advanced Draft + Site Plan

You can use the Composite Element tool to create composite elements based on one or more elements. Composite elements may not have gaps and they cannot branch. If these criteria are met, you can combine individual composite elements to produce a new, discrete one, or you can enhance a composite element by adding new elements. All associated element labels, stationing and parallel lines are deleted in the process.

Note: The construction of the composite is faster if, at creation time, you place the reference point roughly in the middle of the new one. The direction of the composite element is determined by the minimum x value (if equal, the y value) of the reference element, or the start point of an existing composite element.

1st example

A Reference element

2nd example

A Axis A

B Axis B

To create a new composite element

1. Click Composite Element (How).
   

   Activate Composite Element in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Advanced Draft

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Advanced Draft

   Site Plan

   • Configuration: Landscaping/Urban Planning Advanced Draft flyout
2. If necessary, enter the name of the composite element.
3. Click the reference element for the new composite element.
4. Select the individual elements or the composite elements you want to join.
   

   • To select a single element, click it.
   • To select elements in a region, use the left mouse button to open a selection rectangle around the elements you want to select
   • To include all the elements in the current document, click All in the Input options or press CTRL+A. Please note that this option is not available for all tools.

   For more information on the options available for selecting elements in Allplan, see Selecting elements, overview.

   When selecting elements, you can use the Filter Assistant to apply a filter based on element types and/or properties. For more information, see Filter Assistant.

   Tip: When you double-click in the workspace with the right mouse button, all connected elements are selected.

To add elements to a composite element

1. Click Composite Element (How).
2. Click the reference element in the composite element.

   The name of this composite element is used for the new element.

3. Select the elements to be added.

Notes:

• All the labels etc. added to the composite element are saved in the same file as the composite element.
• If you do not have the Site Plan module, you cannot assign a name for the composite element nor can you manage it in the Advanced Draft module. No station zero point is generated.
• The settings for pen, line and color are taken from the Format toolbar (unless you have selected the Create composite elements with fixed format properties setting in the Options, Terrain page, Site plan and advanced draft area). When this setting is active, only the pen is taken from the Format toolbar.
• Composite elements cannot be edited using the Copy and Resize and Resize tools. Therefore, you cannot select them.