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  • Trimming surfaces and Solid Working Area

    PROBLEM You have an issue with trimming B-spline surfaces using Trim surface tool. The surface remains unchanged. SOLUTION There might be several reasons for this failure, but very common one is that elements are out of Solid Working Area (SWA…

  • Obtaining an elevation at a certain point using surface triangulation

    Hello! I'm using MicroStation V8i. So I'm working on a project (a new bridge) and I need the elevation at the beginning of the bridge. What the survey guys gave me was a file with the location of the bridge with surface triangles all along the…

  • Placing a point grid around a 3D surface

    I have successfully created a space frame in GC v8i where the height and direction of the individual polygons are randomly generated. However I can only seem to do this with a point grid on a flat surface, and I would like to apply it around a form which…

  • Components not displayed

    Hello all, I am running Microstation V8i Select Series 2 with geopak. I have created a preliminary surface using the roadway designer. When I create my surface, and toggle on the display components my top surface does not appear in most locations.…

  • InRoads Triangle Import

    I am having problems editing triangles. There are spots in my project where a high line rail crosses a road. There is about 30' difference in elevation. In top view, the vertical plane makes it difficult to use the edit surface> delete triangle. I wrote…

  • Pattern Area

    Hi. Is there a way. or macro or somthing to pattern area (Geopak PowerCivil v8i SS2) so that the cells stay in tact and like chess board. Elar

  • Direction of Depressions

    Hi, I don't fully understand the option 'Draw Depressions Couterclockwise' under the Advanced tab in the View Contours box. Why and when should this be used? Jean Castro

  • Geopak label updater - hit and miss success

    Hi all, using Geopak in MS v8i 08.11.07.443 I've placed labels using Plan View Labeler and now my grading changed. So I go back to Labeler and choose Tools>Label Updater. Choose my labels to be updated, choose Select by: Selection Set, click Start…
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