Hello,
First, I essentially have the same problem as described in this person's post and would really like to get an answer.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/f/geopak-inroads-mx-openroads-forum/196435/conceptstation-to-openroads-designer---sight-visibility-tools-workflow#
I am trying to export my file from OpenRoads to Rhino but everytime we try, the 3D elements are not correctly exported. The file becomes 2-D. We have tried various types of files type, converting to b-spline surface, and all doesn't work. The issue seems to be that when we export from ConceptStation, everything gets converted to extended elements. We turned everything into mesh itself, and tried to convert the mesh to a solid and volume, but nothing work. Has anyone else encountered this problem and how did you solve it?
Maybe try the command MeshUnite, to unite the differebt roads parts, then maybe CloseMeshVoid then maybe it will works? But I don't think ther is an easy way or just a way to convert mesh to solids in a way that Rhino will read them well. I know there are some third party program for civil 3D that convert polyface Mesh to Solids, maybe this will work. The thing is I don't have Rhino to test it.
Also try just moving your mesh near 0,0 I know that Revit and Infraworks don't like solids that are far from 0,0
Hi Jeremie,
Thanks for your response. I tried using Mesh Unite tool just now and it didn't work. In the 2-D view, the elements I realized are partially mesh partially complex element. In the 3-D view, when I go to click on the mesh it just says since it is an extended element, I can't use the tool.
Yes you first have to drop the extended element to mesh first
Hi Brandy,
I have the same issues. It depends a lot on how you model stuff. Anyways, my workflow is to export as a dwg and then select only the 3D model for export and then import the dwg in Rhino.