We're in the early stages of a really long, linear project where we have boreholes that are placed along the alignment. Imagine 100 boreholes placed at 1 mile intervals along a 100 mile alignment. It's hard to generate a mesh that looks nice from this kind of data. Instead of first creating the 3D mesh and being able to get a fence diagram, would it be possible for first do the 2D fence and then extrude the 3D block from that? The data is not exactly linear along the alignment obviously, so there's some 3 dimensionality to them that we would like to be able to capture. But just being able to do draw the 2D fence diagram without first creating the 3D mesh would be great help already. This way, we would be able to respond to design changes faster without having to go through a long and arduous process of plotting plans and profiles for every single alignment change. I suppose I can draw the layers myself or create fake boreholes on either side of the real ones and then create meshes. But wondering if there's an easier way forward. Thanks in advance!
When we work on horizontal construction projects similar to what you've described, instead of trying to export the mesh, I've had success doing the following:
Thanks Allan, I guess what I'm hoping is that there's something out there (preferably with gINT Civil Tools itself) that can do your Step 2 (Draw your stratigraphy between borings using polylines or smart lines or create chains using individual lines).
That way, at least 80% of the lines can be done automatically and I'll just have to go in there to fix things that don't make sense and then can easily update once we have new data or find new data. And once I have the lithology "background", I can bring in different lab data results as needed for different design elements.
Hi Lucy
We are adding some geological interpretation tools in the gINT Civil Tools cross sections, that may help. The goal is that you can add some new data points ( interpretation ) that you can document and keep and then use to generate the meshes. Because those points are saved, as your project runs and you get more data, you can adjust them and regenerate the meshes. If you wish to discuss that, please contact me offline.
This article has exactly what I'm looking for but it's for AutoCAD Civil 3D: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/article/Art-Modeling-Geology-Linear-Route-AutoCAD-Civil-3D-2019