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Guillermo1
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Hi, which is the most recommended tool to modelate a road works? Routes with slopes, etc

 

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based sonoma

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Barry Kelly
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For a continuous road you could use a complex profile in the railing tool, with everything turned off except the one railing which would be the cross section profile of the road.

 

Archicad is not really the correct software for modelling roads easily though.

 

Barry.

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Barry Kelly
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For a continuous road you could use a complex profile in the railing tool, with everything turned off except the one railing which would be the cross section profile of the road.

 

Archicad is not really the correct software for modelling roads easily though.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

thanks Barry, so i have to considerate works with some external civil 3d modeler 

I guess it depends on how realistic and possibly automated you want the roads to be.

Do a search here in the forums for ... +roads ... and you will see a lot of posts and different methods.

 

Here is one of them using the railing tool.

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Roads-by-Railling-tool-Profiler-manager/m-p/324915

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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