Carsten,
I use a mesh for that. On my site models (residential home sites in a hilly area!) I use a mesh for the street paving, a mesh for the gutter, a mesh for the curb, another for the sidewalk and finaly one for the existing earth. When you're all finished, it looks like a chunk sliced from the crust of the earth. All my mesh points are derived from the topographic survey or my own poor-man's survey with the construction level!
I like to make the street, gutter, curb and sidewalk seperately because it makes them less confounding to manipulate AND it leaves a 2D representation that looks correct. Set your meshes with smoothed, hidden user ridges and they'll look dynamite in elevation views.
Good hunting!
I use a mesh for that. On my site models (residential home sites in a hilly area!) I use a mesh for the street paving, a mesh for the gutter, a mesh for the curb, another for the sidewalk and finaly one for the existing earth. When you're all finished, it looks like a chunk sliced from the crust of the earth. All my mesh points are derived from the topographic survey or my own poor-man's survey with the construction level!
I like to make the street, gutter, curb and sidewalk seperately because it makes them less confounding to manipulate AND it leaves a 2D representation that looks correct. Set your meshes with smoothed, hidden user ridges and they'll look dynamite in elevation views.
Good hunting!
Carstene wrote:Take a look at OBJECTiVE - it provides tools to create profiles and bend the to curves in both plan and elevation, which is perfect for shaping kerbs to sloping & winding edges. If you refer to the attached example, I have selected one object (out of many) created and shaped with OBJECTIVE that does exactly this (and also acts as an SEO operator for the wall below).
what is the best way to model detailed kerbs (using profiler as example) in ArchiCAD on a sloping terrain along a winding road? Is Architerra 3 any good for this? Any other software we should be looking at?
For more info, point your browser to:
Hi guys,
Here's a very basic example per Bier's request.
All the entities are meshes. The black part is the street.. In this case, I've modeled it to the centerline. The corner at the lower left is a hair higher than the corner that touches the gutter. The grey parts are the gutter and curb meshes. The part that's tan on the sides and green on top is the earth. I set all the meshes with a consistent reference plane on the site story, such that I've got a meter or two of thickness at the site's lowest point. The top surfaces of all these meshes can be edited at will, of course.
Here's another trick I use for flatwork (paving) on significant slopes.. I model the paving as a mesh, put in all the slopes, edge elevations, drain inlet low points, etc. then copy it. Lower the copy a few inches, subtract the copy from the original using a solid element operation, then put copy on a 'scratch' layer that stays turned off all the time (unless I want to see it). Similar idea to what's shown here, but with the mesh's lower portion cut away to turn the top surface of the mesh into a 'warped plate' with thickness of my choosing (difference in elevation of the two mesh entities used).
My site modeling method is sort of like making a base for a physical model. As a matter of fact, that's how I approach Archicad... I'm making a very detailed physical model in the traditional sense. Now if I only had a rapid prototyping machine......!!
Hope that helps
Warm regards
Here's a very basic example per Bier's request.
All the entities are meshes. The black part is the street.. In this case, I've modeled it to the centerline. The corner at the lower left is a hair higher than the corner that touches the gutter. The grey parts are the gutter and curb meshes. The part that's tan on the sides and green on top is the earth. I set all the meshes with a consistent reference plane on the site story, such that I've got a meter or two of thickness at the site's lowest point. The top surfaces of all these meshes can be edited at will, of course.
Here's another trick I use for flatwork (paving) on significant slopes.. I model the paving as a mesh, put in all the slopes, edge elevations, drain inlet low points, etc. then copy it. Lower the copy a few inches, subtract the copy from the original using a solid element operation, then put copy on a 'scratch' layer that stays turned off all the time (unless I want to see it). Similar idea to what's shown here, but with the mesh's lower portion cut away to turn the top surface of the mesh into a 'warped plate' with thickness of my choosing (difference in elevation of the two mesh entities used).
My site modeling method is sort of like making a base for a physical model. As a matter of fact, that's how I approach Archicad... I'm making a very detailed physical model in the traditional sense. Now if I only had a rapid prototyping machine......!!
Hope that helps
Warm regards
Carstene wrote:You can use the Mesh to Roof add-on, but it's still pretty messy. Otherwise you have to use other 3D profilers, such as Objective, ArchiForma, and I think CadImage have one.
It would be easy solved by Graphisoft if you could "tell" the terrain tool to slope the same at the bottom as on top and then convert this to a profile!
I agree mate, GS needs to include one with the package. It would help everyone who wanted to put fascias on their buildings too!
Cheers,
Link.
Still looking?
