topic Re: Road works in Modeling

Road works

Guillermo1 — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:17:35 GMT

Hi, which is the most recommended tool to modelate a road works? Routes with slopes, etc

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based sonoma

Re: Road works

Barry Kelly — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:07:21 GMT

For a continuous road you could use a complex profile in the railing tool, with everything turned off except the one railing which would be the cross section profile of the road.

Archicad is not really the correct software for modelling roads easily though.

Barry.

Re: Road works

Guillermo1 — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:51:56 GMT

thanks Barry, so i have to considerate works with some external civil 3d modeler

Re: Road works

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:27:35 GMT

I guess it depends on how realistic and possibly automated you want the roads to be.

Do a search here in the forums for ... +roads ... and you will see a lot of posts and different methods.

Here is one of them using the railing tool.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Roads-by-Railling-tool-Profiler-manager/m-p/324915

Barry.

Re: Road works

Paul King — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:50:49 GMT

Sadly, the railing tool corrupts curved railing segments where not horizontal. Does not matter what resolution you give it in settings.

Re: Road works

Lingwisyer — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:16:12 GMT

Depending on how much you are doing, you could look at Eptar's ArchiTerra. They have a trial you can download from their website. I have yet to try it out though so I cannot comment on if it is any good or not. I believe one of the devs and one of the sales people are on this forum.