RE: Visualisation Specialist Trying to Understand Exporting Issues.

Ollie Nugent — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 01:38:04 GMT

Hi Louis,

I will be using Houdini by SideFx to create the scene. Mainly because of its node based procedural workflows and how good it is with dealing with large and dense geometry. The actual Rendering will either be done by Mantra (Houdini internal renderer) or V-Ray.

RE: Visualisation Specialist Trying to Understand Exporting Issues.

Louis van Amerongen — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:24:32 GMT

Hi Ollie,

Can you tell us the name of the program you are using for the rendering part?

Regards,

Louis

RE: Visualisation Specialist Trying to Understand Exporting Issues.

Mark Shamoun — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:50:20 GMT

Hi Ollie,

[quote userid="1304416" url="~/products/road___site_design/f/geopak-inroads-mx-openroads-forum/234084/visualisation-specialist-trying-to-understand-exporting-issues"]- Why are barriers and rails treated differently to the rest of the geometry when exporting? No matter what I do or how I export any roads or bridges with barriers or rails disappear on export.[/quote]

I bet you are using 3d linestyles for your barriers and rails? This is DGN technology that does not export into any other environments unless it is dropped into the base geometry. Note that the success of dropping is subject to how the 3d linestyle was initially defined - best results is usually to create the barrier 3d linestyle as a Mesh initially. This is probably the answer to your third question.

The ORD IFC exporter is built for Mesh objects (as ORD models objects as Meshes). OBM creates Solid entities and therefore the ORD exporter does not work for OBM data. You can use the iTwin platform to export these objects to IFC.