ArchiTerra

[Anonymous]

I am having trouble getting the road tool in ArchiTerra to work. The fill associates its self to the "0" or bottom of the terain. How can I get it to assocate it to the top of the terain and to follow the contours? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Yeah the Factory S.E. is set to 2-meters. (I envy the metric world). but it will only come into play on slopped or "wavy" sites.

From the AT Users Guide on page 58, if using a polyline to create the pavement you are allowed to enter a Thickness for the pavement.

If using a Fill this seems not to be an option. Before setting the embankment angle to 90-degrees, what other angles did you try? Because you are using a fill, each side of the roadway is calculated based on the existing grade. It would seem that the steep angle "raises" the road bed enough to not have the "shallow" spots.

Most of our work is in the mountains, so my issues and challenges with AT my be a bit different.

[Anonymous]

here is a section of road I tried with the revierse degree's.

Left:
90º
06º

Right:
Same

[Anonymous]

this one with factory default settings.

Left and Right
60º
60º

[Fabrizio Diodati]

Here I am after a long silence due to the fact I’ve been busy in the past days.

Ok, as usual, to be sure of the cause of the trouble I should see your file but, in any case, what is quite obvious to me is the in your examples the SEO failed (this is because you don’t see anything).

You have to take care that using complex roads plan shape, the resulting slopes can be really complex for the AC SEO.
On the other hand, after more than one year of beta testing, I realized that you can have troubles also if the ArchiCAD SEO doesn’t modify too much the terrain.

When the roads just lye on the terrain (often the terrain survey already included the road data like in the first Jay's example) the best solution is to use the coloured area tool.
In this case the Fill used to modify the terrain can also includes holes (in the case of a road the holes will be skipped).

Also, please pay attention, the two click you make on the selected fill (using the road tool) will identify the left and the right side of the road so they are really important.
The fill I see in your splash screen doesn't let you identify in a proper way the left and the right side of teh road...
You should split the fill in several parts which will better identify the pieces of roads.

What I can suggest you is to:
- save your file under a new name
- delete anything is not related to ArchiTerra
- send me this PLN file and I will check it


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[Anonymous]

starting all over....

[Anonymous]

Fabrizio wrote:
When the roads just lye on the terrain (often the terrain survey already included the road data like in the first Jay's example) the best solution is to use the coloured area tool.

In my example the Terrain Survey (DXF file of points) did include the road data. The fills were placed and one of the roads was created. Once the road was created (this is the step you saw), I create a Longitudinal Section to modify the road slopes to fit the Project to be built on the site. This had yet to be done. I like to use the Longitudinal Sections to represent the finished roadways to the local building departments, and for now I do not like the way that the Section tool represents the Flared connections between the intersecting roads. I am for now choosing to create Fills that do not have radius fillets at the intersections. Once I have a final product I will post.

[Anonymous]

I gave up on the road tool and Fabrizio instisted I use the colored area tool. Its much better. Any sugestions on curbs? I was having trouble Tuesday. Am am going to add new post on curbs shortly.

[Anonymous]

How can I move spot elevations and add new ones.

[Anonymous]

I want to add a basin in my site by adding new elevations point for the Basin Tool to work. But can't figure out how to get new points in terrain.

[Fabrizio Diodati]

Use the plateaux tool to perform both the action:

1. sloped plateaux for the first issue
2. a "normal" plateaux (digging) to create the place where you want create the basin

BTW, what you are trying to do (selecting nodes and terrain and clicking on the terrain tool) is not described anywhre in the user manual...

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