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Hi All,
I have site levels (heights) for a project, and I am wanting to model the terrain. The project is a small deck off the back of an existing house, and there will be a lot of instances where we are doing small residential alterations through to medium commercial (e.g schools) which don't usually require a full geotechnical survey or contours, we have a level reader, zero it at the floor level and then take the readings of the ground levels around the building resulting in points.
What is the best way to model this, and then be able to alter it if we are excavating, adding retaining, flattening a site etc, and so that it can show up as a line when adding sections and elevations to the models and creating drawings? I have tried to find a tutorial, but the available information for how to do this includes complex georeferencing (which we never use)
Would love to hear the methods for smaller scale terrain modelling and your suggestions, please see images added for reference to the said project. If someone could also add a step by step description/images that would be fantastic and much appreciated!
Olivia
Hi Olivia,
is your question about programming? If yes, please specify language (VBA, C#, C++...) you would like to use to achieve your goal. When not, please move your question to AECOsim community. You can do it yourself using More > Move tool.
BTW To create "simple terrain model" you can use Create Mesh tool.
With regards,
Jan
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Thanks Jan, i have moved the thread
That is my question, how do you create a terrain with the create mesh tool? I cant find tutorials and have no idea where to start the steps to do it
Olivia Hoogerbrug said:I have site levels (heights) for a project
it's not clear from your description what is a format of height spots. Is it only the paper you shared?
But anyway, the target is to have all heights as text, usually in own level, available as text elements in 3D. How you will reach this situation, depends on the available data and their format and also you preferences and knowledge. When available e.g. as text file, you can use Import Coordinates tool. Or you can create them manually.
When the texts (other element types can be used also, but texts are good from more reasons) are available, simply select them and use Mesh from Points tool.
Olivia Hoogerbrug said:I cant find tutorials
I do not believe it. Did you try to search AECOsim BD documentation? When I searched fro terrain, I received plenty of links about LandXML import and DTM element (which is not usable because I guess you have no application capable to create LandXML) and also Mesh Modeling chapter.