Adding Nodes to 3D Lines for Graphical Import of Elements into a Terrain Model in ORD

Hello Eveyone,

I have done some research and digging related to this issue already and have not be able to find an answer or better solution for what I need to do.  The issue I am having is that I need to create a terrain model from 3D contours and breaklines that I have receved from one of our subconsultants.  The subconsultant is a landscape architect that is doing all their design in Rhino and AutoCAD. They are providing me with a 3D AutoCAD file with the 3D contours and breaklines which I am converting to Microstation to create the terrain.  The problem I am having with this is that when importing these features, the triangulation is only to the node points on the elements and you do not have the ability to specify a point density interval (like you could with InRoads) on import.  I am aware that there are stroking tolerance settings in ORD that can be adjusted, but those tolerances only work for linear features.  Converting the 3D contours/breaklines to linear features is an option, but would be very time consuming.  I would like to find a way to add additional node point at a maximum defined interval along an element if possible.  I am aware of the facet curve command but that has its limitations,  the main one being that if you try and facet at a fixed chord length it will drop off the remainder of the element if its lengths isn't evenly divisible by the defined chord length (i.e. if you line is 10.5' long and you facet at a fixed 1' chord length, the last 6" of the line will be removed).  Has anyone else run into this problem and come up with another solution?  I would really like to do this terrain modeling in ORD but due to not being able to control the point density interval at import, I have revereted to using InRoads for the time being.  Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.

Carl Oberg

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