Horizontal and vertical geometry manipulators

A non-transitory electronic device-readable medium containing executable instructions, the executable instructions, when executed by one or more processors of one or more electronic devices operable to:

• display a view of one or more elements that represent a generally linear unit of infrastructure in three-dimensional (3D) space in a graphical user interface (GUI), the one or more elements having a two-dimensional (2D) horizontal geometry and a 2D vertical geometry;
• generate one or more horizontal geometry manipulators attached along the one or more elements, each horizontal geometry manipulator visualized in the view and movable in the 3D space;
• generate one or more vertical geometry manipulators attached along the one or more elements, each horizontal geometry manipulator visualized in the view and movable in the 3D space;
• in response to user input in the GUI moving a horizontal geometry manipulator to a first new position in 3D space, determine a horizontal position along the one or more elements, recreate 2D horizontal geometry of one or more elements to be tangent to the horizontal position, recreate 2D vertical geometry to maintain elevation, reposition the one or more vertical geometry manipulators along the one or more elements, and update the view of the one or more elements in the GUI;
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• in response to user input in the GUI moving a vertical geometry manipulator to a second new position in 3D space, determine a vertical position along the one or more elements, recreate 2D vertical geometry of the one or more elements based on the vertical position, and update the view of the one or more elements in the GUI.

An electronic device configured to manipulate the geometry of one or more elements that represent a generally linear unit of infrastructure in three-dimensional (3D) space, the electronic device comprising:

• a display screen;
• a processor configured to execute executable instructions;
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• a memory configured to store the executable instructions and data, the executable instructions and data including:
• at least one file storing the one or more elements that represent the generally linear unit of infrastructure, the one or more elements having a two-dimensional (2D) horizontal geometry and a 2D vertical geometry;
• a computer aided design (CAD) application that when executed is operable to:
• display a view of the one or more elements in three-dimensional (3D) space in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the CAD application shown on the display device,
• generate one or more horizontal geometry manipulators attached along the one or more elements, each horizontal geometry manipulator visualized in the view and movable in the 3D space,
• generate one or more vertical geometry manipulators attached along the one or more elements, each horizontal geometry manipulator visualized in the view and movable in the 3D space,
• in response to user input in the GUI moving a horizontal geometry manipulator to a first new position in 3D space, determine a horizontal position along the one or more elements, recreate 2D horizontal geometry of the one or more elements to be tangent to the horizontal, recreate 2D vertical geometry to maintain elevation, reposition the one or more vertical geometry manipulators along the one or more elements, and update the view of the one or more elements in 3D space in the GUI of the CAD application executing on the electronic device;
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• in response to user input in the GUI moving a vertical geometry manipulator to a second new position in 3D space, determine a vertical position along the one or more elements, recreate 2D vertical geometry of the one or more elements to adjust elevation based on the vertical position, update the view of the one or more elements in 3D space in the GUI of the CAD application executing on the electronic device.