HakanSeven12 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:24 pm
After we finished our wb's we can talk about it
I'm using your alignments and at some point I need to triangulated road surfaces created from your road models too.
Right. We're both on the same track, just coming at it from different directions.
If I can get a basic horizontal and vertical alignment design tool in place, building 3D models shouldn't be too bad. But the tools take a long time. It's hard work! I imagine there's a lot you can still do with surveys - like generating cross sections and cross section sheets, doing volume calculations, maybe incorporating survey point codes, doing some COGO integration or something (I'm not a surveyor, but I seem to remember that stuff's important
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There is one other option for getting to 3D models a bit faster. That is, develop support for importing LandXML profiles, then merge the profile with the alignment to produce the composite 3D alignment. Once that's done, a 3D model can be developed. But the functionality would be limited to strictly importing existing LandXML datasets - no creating / editing.
I have developed some 3D highway design tools, so some of the groundwork for that already exists. Merging the terrains with the design model, though... that'll be tricky.
