Command: PAVE (Polyline Add Vertex)

PAVE (Polyline Add Vertex) Command

Overview

• PAVE stands for “Polyline Add Vertex”. 
• To run: you may type PAVE as a command, or find the button highlighted in yellow above.
• The PAVE command allows a user to add line and arc segments to either side of an existing polyline.  It can also remove vertices from either side of an existing polyline.

Example

You had thought you were done connecting gutter points on the side of the road with your polyline; however, your surveyor sends you additional gutter points and you need to continue drawing the polyline.  If you draw a new polyline with the intent of joining them together, by the time you are done drawing the new one, the original is off-screen and you have to track it down to run the join command.  When running join, care is taken to select the source in advance in case it has properties for the final polyline to inherit.  On top of this, the new polyline can be difficult to work with; for instance, it takes a bit of finagling to get it to be tangent to the existing polyline.

With This Tool

• The new linework you create is automatically joined to the original, removing tracking concerns.
• Arcs, by default, are drawn tangent to the last segment of the polyline—regardless of whether that last segment was drawn previously, or during the current PAVE function.
• You can overrule the arc direction with the 2POINT subcommand.
• You can easily hop back and forth from one side of the polyline to the other.

PAVE Subcommands

While running PAVE, it is possible to be in Line mode or Arc mode.  By default you are in Line Mode:

• Follow instructions—you can follow the instructions to pick the next vertex.  A dashed rubber band previews on-screen between the last vertex and the position of your cursor.  Click on screen, snap, or type coordinates for where the new line segment should end.
• Exit—Ends the PAVE function.
• Otherside—Switch to add or remove a vertex from the other end of the polyline.
• Remove Vertex—Removes the last vertex from the side of the polyline with the rubber band.
• Closeshape—Draws a straight segment from the last vertex to the first.
• Arc—Switch to arc mode.

If you switch to Arc Mode, the following tools are available:

• Follow instructions—you can follow the instructions to pick where the tangent arc ends.  A dashed rubber band previews on-screen between the last vertex and the position of your cursor.  Click on screen, snap, or type coordinates for where the new line segment should end.
• Exit—Ends the PAVE function.
• Otherside—Switch to add or remove a vertex from the other end of the polyline.
• Remove Vertex—Removes the last vertex from the side of the polyline with the rubber band.
• 2pt—This method of drawing an arc gives the user the flexibility to change the start direction.
• Line—Switch to line mode.