12d Model

hi

simplest way is to use "Utilities > A-G > Change, filter select the strings for the road and copy to a new model, triangulate that.

or
you could create a closed polygon using the edge of shoulder strings and "Null by Polygon"

or
using "Utilities > A-G > Delete, filter and delete strings by ...

cindy

i use the following method to reduce the tin points.

Tins > Utilities > Grid DTM
this process creates strings over the extend of the large tin at set intervals. i tick the box to have 1 string per grid row. quicker selecting if you want to profile a row of points.
this then gives you a model ...

that's very sad news.

i never met matt, but he was a very knowledgeable fellow and will be missed in the 12d world.

condolences to his family and friends in the community.

daz :(

it may not be in V9.

sam cech wrote a macro to do this.
here is the link
http://forums.12dmodel.com/macro_view.php?m=37

sam likes to be thanked with beer i believe, i owe him a few

daz

open up a perspective view (not open gl)
turn on the tin model, go to settings and select shade, or contours, or grid.

if you have the visualisation module (open an open gl view) to see it as two sided, use 12d textures on roads, batters, etc.

daz

if you are looking for the volume of the 300mm layer. Use the surface area within a polygon option in Tins / Tin Analysis > and multiply by 0.3

if you need to generate line work for sections, may be quicker to manually add later.

daz

just remembered.

exds have a macro that puts a box around services that can be displayed in section views, i think. will highlight clashes easier.

contact them or look on their website for more info.

daz

using the measure bearing / distance tool would be the quickest way. you cannot 'snap' to the outer lines of pipes but lines / tins can be snapped to, but with the 'cursor snap' on (the C icon in the snaps toolbar) you can get a pretty close height distance.
the result will be the dz numbers in the ...

i have gone through many posts and have found the source of the source code.

it is Sam Cech of course and the link to this post is below. the title of the post is "
Putting xyz Co-ords on screen" in the design section of the forum.. the link below should get to it as i found it though the search ...

you can assign a super alignment style to it and the tangect points should be highlighted with a symbol.
most of the standard styles will show the ticks / symbols on the line.

set this in the Super Alignment toolbar (hit F6 to edit string)

on the "properties" icon, there will be a label section ...

i have a macro that creates x, y, z, names or ID

its a very good macro, but i cant remember where i got it from. may have been in the forum macro database. thank you to whoever wrote this.

here is the code you can copy to a .4dm file and compile.

daz

#include "set_ups.H"
#include "standard ...

a special chainage file would show these additional uprights. BUT when the design changes, the spc file has to be updated.

add the reference in the "chainage/staggering" part of the ppf.

its a fix, but not an automatic fix.

daz

shaun.

you should invest some time learning to use super alignments. chainages are displayed dynamically and you can set up different styles for differrent situations.
alignment is OK, but as long as you recalc the chainages each time any modifications are carried out.

handy part of super ...