Drape elements on terrain

Question

Is there a tool how to Drape DGN elements (cells, text, lines, curves) to terrain model. The Drape Surface tool in Inroads worked great but there seems to be no alternative for Terrain models. Stencil tool drop elements and doesn't work as expected, Descartes STM drape also doesn't work with all elements.

Josef Uhricek · Accepted Answer

There is a new command Model Detailing> 3D Elements> Create 3D by Drape To Surface in version 2023. It seems 100% identical to InRoads Drape To Surface

Oto · Answer

After all best tool is included in Bentley Descartes. Draping to STM works as expected. Unfortunately it lacks option to drop vertices only and also some element types are not draped.

Beebe Ray · Answer

There is not a tool to Drape cells and text on a terrain. You can drape lines and curves, linear geometry, using the Profile From Surface command in the Vertical Geometry tool set. 
 
 communities.bentley.com/.../27341.openroads-training

Purva Lakde · Answer

I presumed you require video of profile from surface which is the tool under Vertical Geometry, please refer the below link for your reference.

communities.bentley.com/.../27632.video-quick-profile-from-surface

Regards,
Purva Lakde

Amita Shinde · Answer

Please check the below links for "Profile From Surface" : 
 
 communities.bentley.com/.../30525.video-show-multiple-surfaces-on-one-profile 
 
 communities.bentley.com/.../27632.video-quick-profile-from-surface

Derek Schmidt · Answer

To my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong), you will be satisfied when you have a series of lines in your 3D model, when this series of lines is a 3D rendering of a 2D line--say, maybe a property line--and that 3D rendering of the 2D line should follow a surface (probably existing surface). This is what I understand of what you want when you use the word draping. When you take a 2D plan line, and you generate a profile along it from any surface (existing, proposed, whatever), and then you assign that profile as the active profile, your 2D plan line is now draped onto that surface. These steps will work with any profile, whether that profile was cut directly from a surface or it was constructed free-hand, or anything in between.

Drape elements on terrain

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