topic Re: contour line crossing building outline in Modeling

contour line crossing building outline

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:58:06 GMT

Hi,
I created a slopped terrain using mesh and polyline. Then designed a building on the slope. Some part of my building is below grade so I used SEO in order to extrude the dirt. After creating the building, the site plan drawing in my view map has the mesh polylines crossing onto the building. I want to know how to make the mesh polyline stop at the building outline on my site plan and first floor plan.

Thanks!

Re: contour line crossing building outline

Dwight — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:36:35 GMT

The cheapandnasty solution: Mask the contours with a solid white fill.

The professional way: cut a hole in the mesh to match the building. Fill in under the building with a new flat-top mesh.

The complete way: reconfigure the mesh.

Re: contour line crossing building outline

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:18:57 GMT

Dwight wrote:
The cheapandnasty solution: Mask the contours with a solid white fill.

The professional way: cut a hole in the mesh to match the building. Fill in under the building with a new flat-top mesh.

The complete way: reconfigure the mesh.

Thank you for the fast response. I think I managed to solve this by cutting a whole.

Re: contour line crossing building outline

Dwight — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:30:33 GMT

To maintain the integrity of your model, just cutting a hole leaves a void under the structure. If you don't fill it with something, the building will fall all the way to China [or whatever is on the opposite side of the world from you]. It is a problem in section…

This is why I prefer the SEO method, giving your floor slab an opaque fill to hide the contour line.

Re: contour line crossing building outline

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:16:33 GMT

Dwight wrote:
If you don't fill it with something, the building will fall all the way to China

Or it will just simply fall through the whole Earth and out into deep dark space.

Re: contour line crossing building outline

Bob Moore — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:57:13 GMT

Maybe to Middle Earth?

Re: contour line crossing building outline

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:56:22 GMT

Bob wrote:
Maybe to Middle Earth?

And there the magnetic field should be equal along with zero gravity and hence lock it in stable middle earth forever and ever?
Talk about a room with a VIEW.