topic Re: Sidewalks using SEO in Modeling

Sidewalks using SEO

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:59:17 GMT

Hi I'm doing a cityplaning project and I'm trying to draw some roads using Walls and Solid Element Oprerations. I found out how to make roads now but I can't find out how to lower the road further 15 cm to make sidewalks on both sides since i used SEO Any Ideas??

Re: Sidewalks using SEO

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:35:22 GMT

In 3D there is a pet palette option to drag vertically and assuming you have the tracker enabled you can easily type in the offset.

I forget the command name to do it in plan but the (US) default shortcut is command/control+9 which brings up the dialog into which you type the offset.

Re: Sidewalks using SEO

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:54:25 GMT

Matthew wrote:
In 3D there is a pet palette option to drag vertically and assuming you have the tracker enabled you can easily type in the offset.

I forget the command name to do it in plan but the (US) default shortcut is command/control+9 which brings up the dialog into which you type the offset.

Elevate.

Re: Sidewalks using SEO

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:00:24 GMT

Hey I've been trying to figure out how to do this but without luck. Normally elevation is easy but since I used SEO to make the roads and sidewalks i cant elevate them.
Can i somehow after having made an element in SEO make it to a solid component so that i can delete the operator?

Re: Sidewalks using SEO

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:25:13 GMT

If I understand correctly what you need to do is create a copy of the site model to use as operator. For example you can drop one operator by 15cm (or whatever - that's about typical here in the US) relative to the site model and use that to intersect with the road elements, then subtract the roads with upwards extrusion from the site model. (If you want to be really fussy you can make further, deeper copies of roads and operators to model the thickness of the tarmac and roadbed materials.) The sidewalks presumably can be intersected with the site model since they would be at grade.

If you want to maintain the results without keeping the operations you have top save as library parts. While this can be very useful at times I wouldn't recommend it in this case.

Re: Sidewalks using SEO

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:00:46 GMT

of course obviously.. Thanks