Road Tool

[moovme]

Hi, I think I accidentally put this post into Parametrics, sorry!

Is anyone else interested in getting a dedicated Road Design Tool for AC? The Mesh Tool is great, the Morph Tool is great, but neither are any good for easily creating roads that require cut and fill areas across a terrain (mesh). I'm kind of annoyed that for an all-encompassing BIM platform that AC does not allow you to natively create roads. 

Yes, we can do basic 2D road design and do manual height calculations etc. to get a rough idea, but it's very time-consuming, and not accurate at all for construction. It feels pointless to have to go to an engineer just to get a somewhat complex road design done! Failing that we would all have to learn Civil 3D, but again the twain will never meet as the files are not cross compatible to be able to correctly integrate into a BIM AC model. 

Am I the only one who is frustrated with this massive drawback to AC?..

Operating system used: Windows

[moovme]

I am aware of LAND4, but for whatever reason they don't provide/allow for the user to make anything to do with roads. I can see it may be useful once a road design is already done, but sadly it just cannot do any of the fundamentals for road design, making it a bit of a pointless plugin for anything more than site cosmetics.  

I fully support your request for excavation/cut and fill calculations and volumes as well. RoadEng software does it all, much quicker and a great deal more simpler than Civil 3D.

[moovme]

This looks quite interesting! Would you happen to have a video showing what your GDL solution can do, and how to design and integrate a road into a mesh inside AC?