Hi forum,
I'm using SUE to design the waterpipe, electric duct etc. In the program an excavation trench to a certain pipe is very easy to add, when I "extrude" 3D-elements of the pipe. However, I have trouble to separate the pipe elements to the trench elements, because when I'm deleting the pipe, the trench will automatically be deleted as well and my client insists these two different types of element have to be divided into different dgn-files. What is an easy way in SUE to create two files, one for pipes, wells etc. and the other one for trenches and other earth works?
Another question - maybe related to above is, when designing a 3D-model to a pipe / duct, SUE will automatically add a 2D line for it and this is very useful, when a plan-drawing needs to be prepared. However, the 2D-line SUE added seems to be some different kind of element (links) rather than "normal" microstation lines or chains. These line, depending on its horizontal / vertical geometry could contain different (often very short) segments. Thus it will look quite unpredictable, if legend for this line should be different than a full line (e.g. dash, dot line dot etc.). Is there a way to convert the line to a microstation "complex chain" or alike?
Thank you!
LiPeng
Trenching is done through the feature definition, so it is a relationship to the link. There is not a way to split out the trench as a model independent of the pipe(s). A workflow or workaround would be to model your links as an alignment or linestring so you can drop a normal corridor or linear template to create a trench component/mesh.
Yes, Subsurface Utilities works with nodes and links. The link is a specific element type and is not a regular MicroStation linestring. You may can drop the elements to regular MicroStation graphics but you lose the intelligence of the SUDA information (I have not tried this).
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Hi Chris,
Could you lead me a step or two further regarding the workaround you mentioned to model the links as an alignment or linestring? I'm fairly confident to use the template editing and roadway modeling tools, but would be happy to receive some examples for how a trench is defined (incl. feature definition / element templates etc.).
Regards,