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?
Brandy and Andrei
Have a look at Speckle Systems, it is free and open source. They have connector for a lot of AEC software. Arup developed connectors for Bentley products.
What it does is convert from the software native code to a common object language which is saved on speckle services (managed by them or by you) and then allows it to be stream in the recieving software in that softwares native code.
Changes can be made and then streamed back very similar to how GitHub works, with commits, and forks/branches.
Regards
Chris
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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.
Yes you first have to drop the extended element to mesh first
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.
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