I am looking for best practices to create an overall proposed surface from mulitple corridors and 3D elements created in a "site" fashion. When I attempt to create using just the 3D graphics using terrain from elements, I always get errant lines that aren't picked up or vice versa and I want them to be.
We tried to be very careful in point naming and feature defs in our corridors, but there are always some error as multiple users have worked on this larger project.
Is there a way to save corridors to final top mesh like there was in V8i? I don't see where I can do that anymore.
I have searched this website, and I have seen the question arise, but have not been able to find any realistic answers to a good, efficient, accurate workflow.
Thank you,
Katie Wade
If you have a naming convention that is (somewhat) consistent, would creating a graphical filter be the answer? I have used them for 'combining multiple corridors - I can set the type of feature to be used (e.g. end conditions as boundary) and it will get the overall terrain done. Any errors can be then 'tweaked'.
Hi Katie,
What about the Create Terrain by Design Meshes tool? It should do what you're looking for.
Regards,
Mark
OpenRoads Designer 2022 R3 (10.12) | Microstation 2023.1 | ProjectWise CE 3.4
Thanks, Mark. I haven't tried graphical filter yet. Isn't that similar to isolating levels and extracting the 3D elements?
are we able to switch the design stage of corridors to final top mesh in ORD? I haven't found that. Or does the by Design Meshes tool just ask for the 3d components?
It will automatically use all Meshes that have a Design Volume option in their properties. No need to generate Top Meshes, etc.