You started this tutorial from a pre-designed centreline sketch, but in any moment before you showed how to design a arc centreline as you already has made to have your roundabout in this project
Hi Matt. The levels shown at the corner points are the external ground levels for the proposed surface. The levels will be 150mm below the finished floor level by default but can be edited in-situ or in the house template. These are also the same levels which will be shown in the table if the "Include levels column (external wall levels)" option is enabled. Hope this helps - Lee
1 - Can you show the process of generating from 2d? 2 - Can you generate areas of 3d entities assigned to different material construction thicknesses? 3 - Can you report the cut & fill data to an excel spreadsheet? 4 - Can you customize the export to excel i.e. report under the parent category of materials; then you'd want to run another report with the qt's under the parent of chosen depth bands? 3 - Can 2 above generate surfaces of combined polylines & spot-levels; they all look to be proposed flat pads on the same z-dimension.
A lot of separated text will have something like "25" "." "32=IL" will it still join and use the text? and similar to this is the "CL=23.65" one entity will it use the number part to create a level.
will it display the separated text as a single entity than can be exported to the AutoCAD drawing to tidy up the existing survey with the text matched.
Excellent addition. Now just allow annotation of the gradient on the lines as opposed to as a point. And it's perfect.....apart from gravel boards obviously. Nobody uses them
Good tool, but just not the way it's done. You need to crack on and develop a feature line tool. And a means of creating depths before you worry about cut and fill volumes
Very interesting. I quite like this idea but to be brutally honest, I think the only way this would be useful is if it could read scanned drawings (so that it can take that 40 year old survey drawing you have and convert it to a 3D model) because I've never had a surveyor send me a CAD file in 2D and if I ever did I would immediately go back to them and request the 3D version of it.
This is something we have considered but found it very common that people have 2D surveys in digital format from either old surveys or that's all that has been given to them to start a preliminary consultation with. This allows them to get started on the design work whilst they wait for an updated 3D survey from the client (which could take some time). If you want to work with scanned drawings, Wintopo is a great raster to vector converter, however the OCR of text is yet to come I believe.
