Since PLAXIS 2D AE, (user-defined) water levels are created as a series of water level segments. However, this makes it not so obvious how to check the coordinates of the different points of such a water level, or even adjust the location of these water line points.

Inspect water level

In order to retrieve the actual coordinates of a water level, follow these steps:

1. Click on a water level. In the Selection Explorer at the left side appears the selected water segment.
2. However, if you now use the Shift + left mouse button on any water segment you can select the entire water level. Then, using the right mouse button on the selected water level, a pop-up menu appears with a reference to the entire water level, e.g., UserWaterLevel_2.
   Click on this name printed in bold to copy this name to the Windows clipboard. We will need this name in the next step.
   
3. Now we can use the command line with the help of the echo command to show the points of the water level (WL): type echo and paste the name of the water level (WL) and hit [Enter]. It will look something like this:
   
4. In the list of Points, you can now see the coordinates of the different points.

Move water level points

Moving the points of a water level is done by the command movepoint. For example, to move the first water level point to  (X; Y) = (2; 3)
    movepoint UserWaterLevel_1 0 (2 3)
In this command, the first number refers to the point number in the list of Points, as described above. The new coordinates are written between parentheses.

We can also do this using the mouse.

1. Select the water level you want to edit;
2. Next, click on the button Move water level point (located under the water level button):
   
3. Now you can see that the water level points will be drawn as big black points:
   
4. These points can be moved by using the mouse. When the option Snap to grid is activated, the points will be snapped to the current grid.
5. In the command line session you can also see this being executed as a command. With this it is possible to copy the last command and adjust it to the specific coordinates. Tip: by using the [Arrow up] button from the keyboard when the command line is active, you can easily browse to a previous command.