Hi,
I am a railway engineer and new to AECOsim and GC. I am trying to make a routine to model railway sleepers with GC. I found this video made by Karsten Pudziow on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znWVSNLuU6o&t=412s), it is very helpful and I have followed all the steps up to the point I got stuck when trying to place the sleeper cells with cell node.
I tried to create a simple sleeper cell and defined origin at the centre of the rail pads. I can place the cell with "open cell library" -> "place cell" into the model with no issue. But when I try to place this cell with placing cell node to get them place along the rail repeatedly, nothing shows up. I tried with some default cell library cells and they show up at the locations as they should, so I think it must be the sleeper cell I created. I tried to research about it but still can't find what I did wrong.
I have attached the .dgn and the .cel I created. Could someone help me take a look and see what I did wrong?
Thanks a lot!
Eric
Practice_Track.dgnSleeper_1.celAECOsim_Learn.dgn
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3058.AECOsim_Learn.dgn
It looks like the sleeper was there but only showing in a wireframe view. Dropping the sleeper in sleeper.cel from a Parametric Solid to a Smart Solid using the Drop Tool seemed to fix the issue in a non wireframe view.
However this does some like some form of an issue which needs to be addressed.
Attached is the DGN (minor changes to ref and cell paths so it worked on my system) and an additional co-ordinate system added to rotate the sleeper up.
Answer Verified By: Shenggang Wang
Defect 921267 filed for this issue.
Rg,
Sandeep
Thanks a lot Stuart, does that mean if I create a parametric controlled cell it won't be displayed at the moment? Is there anyway around this? I will be trying to model the sleepers through turnouts which requires the length of bearers varies and controlled by rails. Any suggestion that I could make it happen?
Shenggang Wang said:if I create a parametric controlled cell it won't be displayed at the moment?
Yes, that is correct. Currently, for parametric behavior, the approach would be to model such a parametrically controlled sleeper in GC as a Generated Node Type.