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Edit the Network (Cont’d)
Exercise 12.1.1
Now that our centroids are in place, it is time to include additional highway
links to represent the infrastructural support these new TAZs will require.
The developer will extend currently existing facilities.
1. First, change your cursor back into a pointer by clicking the arrow row icon
at the top of the screen.
2. We will now extend the encircled link on the next slide over to the north.
Left-click on this link and it should start flashing.
3. Once the link starts flashing, right click on the link and a menu u should
appear. Select Copy from the menu.
4. Next, right-click again and the menu should reappear. Please select
Paste. . Your mouse cursor should now resemble a cross-hair.
Note: It is important to remember to change your cursor back to a pointer
before attempting to interactively select any feature in the graphics window.
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Edit the Network (Cont’d)
Exercise 12.1.1
5. Please move the cross-hair over the southern-most node of the link
we are copying. This is node 3655. . Left-click and drag up toward
the area indicated in the next slide. Release the left mouse button.
6. A window should appear asking if you would like to add a new B
node. Click Yes. . If a window should appear that asks if you would
like to add a new A node instead, this means that you did not start
the link at the correct spot. Please click Cancel and try again.
7. In the Add New Node window, please type in 7004 and
8. Click OK.
9. Paste in the rest of the new road as shown on the slide.
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