Hello,
I have 3D linestrings representing the running edges of a railway line.
I would like to turn them into 3D rails.
BUT My linestrings have too many vertices - I would like to reduce to about a third the number of vertices.
AND extruding the rail profile along the linestrings takes for ever and makes the file unmanageable (solid by extrusion)
Can anybody help me ?
Three things :
Reducing vertices in linestring.
Modeling rails - is extrusion the correct way to go ?
General advice about modelling railway track.
Thanks
Hi Fraser,
Just to double-check: are you using AECOsim Building Designer? The reason I ask is that it wouldn't necessarily be as well suited to railway modeling compared to something like OpenRail: https://www.bentley.com/en/products/brands/openrail
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply.
AECOsim Building Designer V8i (ss6) 08.11.09.866.
Steve, please do not be offfended, but I have to tell it like it is.
I have been using Microstation for over 25 years and I am educated to university degree level.
Because I work in isolation, it is virtually impossible for me to learn anything new in Microstation or AECOsim, never mind learning a whole new
program.
So can you describe to me how I would use Open Rail to model railway tracks never having used Open rail before ?
Or let's try something simpler : Describe to me how I can find instructions to reduce the number of nodes in a linestring ? Which to me seems a fairly reasonable request.
Don't tell me how to do it ! Tell me how to find instructions how to do it. Bet you can't.
All the best,
Fraser