Turning lines into Bamboo Solids?

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Is there a trick to use lines for making solids or surfaces? Thickening, extruding or so?

I have a network of lines in a Space Frame structure. Now I want to render them and make the lines look like bamboo poles.  I have managed to make a Custom Line style mimicking Bamboo with its typical varying width/diameter , but the volume does not show up in Illustration Display Style - because it’s nothing but a line…

In Rhino/Grasshopper you can give a diameter to a line, using the Pipe command.

In Microstation there are maybe hidden work-arounds for this?

Thanks for ideas…

Ingemar

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  • Does something like this work? This was done with the GenerativeComponents technology.


    This is a test

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  • Does something like this work? This was done with the GenerativeComponents technology.


    This is a test

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