How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 19:04:57 GMT

Thanks. I think that was the problem.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

eddiegiese — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:26:37 GMT

You may be seeing this if you have a 3D Cut in a profile view. Either refresh the 3D Cut or delete it if you don't need it anymore, and that warning will likely go away.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

MaryB — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:44:17 GMT

That looks like that Default-3D model is attached twice. Since that's the reference dialog, you don't have two models with the same name, you have one model attached two times.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:10:59 GMT

And I have no idea why, but every time I go from my 3D model to my Default model, all of the view windows except view 1 and view 2 (which shows up blank) vanish, and I have to set up the views again.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:55:19 GMT

It doesn't look like there's anything in my 3D file, which is weird because the references are referenced in and turned on. It's not usually like this. This is seems like a weird problem.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

MaryB — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:49:37 GMT

Yes, the terrain should be attached to the 3D view. ORD can generally manage it from there.
Since a terrain is a 3D element in a 3D file, it needs to be referenced to the Default-3D model.
At least, that's my understanding.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:45:17 GMT

My regular terrain isn't showing up on my cross section either. I had this same problem yesterday, and I was able to fix it by using the "process corridor" button. Somehow that change didn't save? I guess I must have accidentally freed the file instead of checking it in. It's weird because last time my terrain wasn't showing up on my vertical alignment or my cross section, and today it's just my cross section. Anyway, I tried the "process corridor" button today and it didn't work. The terrain is definitely set to active, though.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:39:55 GMT

Also, does anyone know what cached geometry means? Because I keep getting errors that say I may have outdated information, and I don't know why. It says my data is from a cache that can't be found...?

And is it normal to have two 3D models of the same name?

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:20:55 GMT

So, the problem I'm running into is that I think I have the right file referenced in, but I can't see where the terrain shows up in the main view. I've tried turning off all the other levels, but I still don't see it. The thing is, I know there's something in that file because someone helped me with this before. They got it to show up in my vertical alignment, but I don't remember how they did it. I had to start from scratch because I didn't start my project from the seed file (I also put too much on one file) and it was lagging/ having issues.

Is that something that would only show up in my 3D view? Is that why I can't see it?

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

MaryB — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:12:25 GMT

As long as you have a terrain from the other corridor, I think you can reference that in and set that terrain as Active. Active terrain should show up in your dynamic section and profile views.

I'm less certain if the other corridor would show up if you referenced the Default-3D of that into the Default-3D of your active file. It might, but that might not be what you need.

You may also have the option to reference the other corridor into your file and generate Profile Intersection points from the other feature lines to tie your profile revisions into.

I'm not using ORD in production yet, so I haven't run into any really complicated situations yet.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

Grace Eastman — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:05:28 GMT

I haven't.

RE: How do I get my proposed terrain to show up in the same view window as my cross section and my vertical alignment?

MaryB — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:02:27 GMT

It should be as simple as setting your desired terrain to be the Active terrain. Have you tried that?