Really, wich discipline does not require a minimum site design ?
It should be in the power plateform.
I have several Open Buidling Designer - expensives- licenses and i should add on top of this a new paid module to design the site around my building ?? Come on..
Chris
Hello Chris,Open Sites is a different product, which comes under Civil Design. A separate product needs a separate license. It is just an companion application that can be installed while installing OBD. See the attached image.
Also if you want to have the site around your building then you can do that by attaching point clouds data inside OBD. I hope this helps your query.
Thank you Alifur,
but i guess you understood my question. I want to be able to design a simple terrain around my building. Clean topography, some roads and walls. Revit can do that easily. Nothing justifying an heavy and expansive add-on. Point Cloud are useless if you can edit them near your project.
I already discuss about this in the Microstation Forum Ideas section. I think basic terrain manipulation in Microstation is terrible and is missing tools to create a Terrain Model entity
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/i/3d_modeling/add-a-minimal-terrain-tools-in-microstation
Hi Chris,
I don't know much about terrain modeling, but would the Mesh From Contours tool be sufficient for the site aspect?
chris Cher said:I want to be able to design a simple terrain around my building.
My knowledge of OpenRoads Designer is limited, but I am pretty sure it contains a wide set of tools for site design as well as for survey tasks (to build DTM from different sources etc.).
With regards,
Jan
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Something straight and easy, like this https://youtu.be/QyzBsr3XY5U?t=71 would be enough.
Mesh from contours can work but workflow is tedious because you have to draw them all before meshing. And what about modifications? I think the ability to place 3D points and have them dynamically meshed, just like in the video, is good. Then if you can move, add or delete points you have a perfect little tool to design a basic terrain. Add the option to make it a Terrain Model entity, export it in LandXml and you are done. I am sure this even could be done in VBA.
It may be worth posting this over on the MicroStation forum to see if there is any additional input using the existing Mesh or Surface tools. While useful for laying out a building site I'd imagine it may have other uses too. Plus, it's the type of functionality that would exist in MicroStation itself. Or should say, be added to MicroStation itself (if there's no quicker way to get there now).