road problems -architerra

[Anonymous]

the selected road is not completely included in the terrain!!
this is the warning that shows up when i´m doing the road. I did all the steps, polyline, select it and the terrain and after when is all defined it happen.
Someone has any idea why is this happening?
thanks

[Fabrizio Diodati]

Please, browse the ArchiTerra web site at:

www.aboutarchiterra.com

because a lot of questions you are asking for are quite well explained in the FAQ section of this site (for example this one!).

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[Anonymous]

I have a similar but different problem. I created my roads using the Color Terrain Tool since I am modeling an existing site. The topography has changed considerably (bad topo data from the city) and when I tried to update the colored areas according to the manual, nothing happened. I eventually drew a new fill pattern and turned that into the painted terrain again. It looked exactly the same! How can it be referencing old terrain that no longer exists? Am I missing something or is this a bug?

[Fabrizio Diodati]

How did you modify your terrain?
The Coloured Area is linked to the original terrain from which it has been generated so, if you delete the terrain and build up a new one the Coloured Area won’t be automatically updated.
On the other hand, if you really created a new Coloured Area (by drawing a new fill) it should follow the ground morphology!

Please, send me this file (not a PLA but a simple PLN, better if it includes only the terrain data) at my e-mail (fabrizio.diodati@cigraph.com) and I will check it.

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[Anonymous]

Fabrizio:
I modified the terrain by dragging nodes on contour lines to eliminate giant holes in the roads. This problem made no sense to me so after my post last night, I decided to try it again and got it to work. I only did 2 things differently.
1: shut down ArchiCAD and re-booted the computer.
2: In the geometry and positioning options, I changed the terrain from "skirted superficies" to "solid bodies", the way it was set when I originally painted the terrain.
When I opened the file this morning, I was horrified that neither my hard to create roads OR the terrain were showing! The disappearing roads are a recurring problem. I closed the file, re-opened it and viola, there they were. What's up with that?
Please let me know if you would still like a PLN file.

[Fabrizio Diodati]

That's the reason!!!

The coloured area use SEO so they cannot work if you don't use solid meshes!!!

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