Hi,
A little stumped on how to get the result I'm after.
Here I have an elevation long section (bottom red line) and an over all plan view of the new rail route (top red line). White lines mark 100m incraments, total length is 1800m. I need to merge the two to produce something similar to the top red line but when viewed in isometric view you'll be able to see the rise and fall in the route shown in the long section.
All I have access to is MS SS3, is there a way to wrap one line along the path of another but keep Z levels?
Josh
Windsor Link Railway 3D.dgn
The sectional elevation line is rotated 90 degrees in the image above to show that there is a rise and fall, otherwise all you'd see in top view is a straight line.
Five gold stars for supplying good evidence and illustration!
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Following on from Makai's suggestion you could perform similar operation with MicroStation :
1. Create a complex chain of the curved plan elements ( Note one of the segments needs to be moved to the correct Z value to match the others - See image below ).
2. Use the Construct Points Along element (Points:18) and select the start (left side) and end of the complex chain.
3. Select all the newly created points and export them to plan.txt file using the 'Export Coordinates' tool
5. Repeat steps 1-3 above of the Line for the elevation and export the coordiantes to a file called 'Elevation.txt'
6. Replace the Z values in the plan.txt with the Z values in Elevation.txt and save as Combined.txt
7. Use the 'Import Coordinates' tool to bring in points using Combined.txt ( Attached )
480.6682,655.1089,0.0000 479.2011,555.3773,0.0000 508.4428,460.2295,-1.5811 567.2073,379.8871,-3.5810 649.0254,323.1952,-5.5808 744.8914,296.4176,-7.5807 844.5999,289.4368,-9.2000 942.3812,308.0634,-9.2000 1029.1020,357.1043,-9.2000 1110.4822,415.2222,-9.2000 1191.8624,473.3400,-9.2000 1273.2427,531.4579,-9.2000 1345.2595,600.1956,-9.2000 1390.9012,688.6547,-9.2000 1411.8347,786.3763,-9.2000 1430.6535,884.5917,-9.1892 1436.7241,984.0810,-5.2174 1452.1632,1082.4684,-2.7000
8. Create new curve from these newly created points if required.