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Make a Street in 3D

VladGoo
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Hello, how can I make a 3D street with a slab and a mesh in AC26?

I know about Solid Elements Operation but I need more informations. 
Thank you!

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Hmooslechner
Moderator

First:

The newest: Archicad25 Street Part with Bezier curvings free editable multilayer including edge Profiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOv_FlLsXY8

on bimcomponents to drag into Archicad - read the description there and watch the Vid there:

 

https://bimcomponents.com/GSM/Details/24075 

 

 

 

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PVBergkrantz
Expert

The way we do it, with SEO, is to put the road-slab as target and ground mesh as operator and do an INTERSECT-operation. This requires the road slab to be thick enough to intersect with the ground all the way. Then we take the mesh as the target and the road (now shaped as the mesh) as operator and do a SUBTRACT-operation. Otherwise you will have road+mesh visible at the same time and it wont look good in 3d.

| AC 25 Int | Win10 | i7-7800X | 32 GB | GeForce RTX 2060 6GB |

It doesn’t work…. Eaven if in Ac25 it works in AC26 it doesn’t….

I use my tube object since it maps the textures but the railing tool can work well too, other than intersections

PVBergkrantz
Expert

Can you explain more what exactly you would like to do?

| AC 25 Int | Win10 | i7-7800X | 32 GB | GeForce RTX 2060 6GB |

Model the section of your road as a Complex Profile then apply said profile as the Top Rail or Rail of a railing. You might need to adjust the railing height, but you will then be able to draw continuous sections. The issue with this is as Seneca pointed out, the inability to create intersections with this method.

 

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Hmooslechner
Moderator

First:

The newest: Archicad25 Street Part with Bezier curvings free editable multilayer including edge Profiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOv_FlLsXY8

on bimcomponents to drag into Archicad - read the description there and watch the Vid there:

 

https://bimcomponents.com/GSM/Details/24075 

 

 

 

AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia