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  1. We have experienced the same as you, @C_Howard. How do you solve this part of the problem @Jeff Prince? Your solution solves it once, but it needs to be repeated if the settings of the landscape area is changed. Any ideas how to avoid that?
  2. Havent really tried it out in a project, but my initial thought would be to have as much likeness to the triangulation you have in Vectorworks, to what you will get from importing the dwg into Civil 3D . So importing the Site Model as a TIN and adding that to the surface in Civil 3D as 3D Faces would give the best result, so I'm surpiced to see your result here @Knut Andreas. Another workaround would be to export the Site Modifiers as DWG instead of the TIN-surface. And then adding them to a surface in Civil as breaklines. That will possible give a different triangulation and be a source for errors... Really nice input from @aage.langedrag! Look to the future! Meanwhile we struggle with the workarounds. Name of the trade...
  3. Hi! While you are at it with a fix for this function @Katarina Ollikainen, it would be great if you also could take a look at some other, related features. The function for Create Grade Limits from Planar Pad…, is just next to this one, and I must say I find it more useful to work with than the one above, as this methode is starting from something that I have designed and making Landmark calculate the correct slope. I is, however, difficult to understand and to have it do the slope that I would like to have. For instance in the example below where the result in some areas is the same offset whether the max slope is set to 1:3 or 1:6. The Slope-function in the RoadwayPoly-tool is more dynamic and easier to understand to. In OIP it can be set to Grade Limits Method: Slope and the slope can be set below. Both the RP and the GL is updated if the settings or the geometry is changed. The Pathway Path could be used in a similar way as the RoadwayPoly, to draw a simple path. But it is much more powerful in many ways when it comes to having control of the longitudinal and transverse profiles. This Site Modifier has no connection to a dynamic/fixed Grade Limit, but I have to manually draw one in order to have a slope along the sides of the paths. If I want the sloping to be 1:3, it’s just guesswork to figure out where the Grade Limit should be placed. There should be some functionality from the RoadwayPoly that could be available for the Path and the Planar Pad as well? It would make things much easier if you could implement that 😊.
  4. It worked by manually selecting. Behaves a bit strange. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Even with the magic wand tool. Anyway, i was able to complete it. Thanks!
  5. That's strange... I get this dialogue box that prompts for a Z-value for every text-object
  6. Hi. I'm new to scripts but was able to create this (i think) and try it out on a file I have received. It seems that I experience the same problem as mtrinca. Are you able to do something with this @Pat Stanford? OV_Anleggsvei.vwx
  7. Yes! There are a number of threads in here that is about contour labeling. Search them up and up-vote them all 🙂 Haven't tried this, but I think they will be back to chaos if you update the Site Model... Meanwhile, you can use the stake tool. Se my comment below Katarinas comment in the link
  8. I have the same problems with Aligned paths/pads. It occurs when they meet at none-straight lines (arcs and other curves). I have done the same as you with a 3D.poly, but maybe slightly different approach to changing the curved lines into straight line segments. I have converted the Aligned pad by making a copy and paste to original coordinates > converted to a 3D-poly by ungrouping in the 3D view > convert the 3D-poly to a 2D polygon and copy it > going back to the original Aligned pad and replace the path (right-click > Edit Path / Paste to original coordinates / delete the curved Path). Then I have still a Aligned pad, but it is now made from straight line segments. I can use this one to make/adjust a coinciding Pad or Path to share the exact same geometry by using the paint bucket, like you do, or by Clip Surface I have aslo tried the Simplify Tolerance in the OIP to try to make coinciding modifiers to overlap exactly, but it usually fails. Another quick-fix that is not always 100% accurate is to keep the curved paths, and in the Aligned pad, place Surface modifiers at the coinciding line in order to force the aligning to work. This workaround isn't bullet proof and sometimes needs more and more modifiers... I think this buggy performance with the Aligned Path should be possible to fix by the programmers of the Site Modifiers, therefore I add @Katarina Ollikainen to this thread to hear what is the best way to get this problem fixed 🙂
  9. Yes, you typically get this problem when the shape of the path boundary isn't parallel and perpendicular to the longitudinal profile line (the middle line). You can try to modify the profile line or a transverse profile line to adjust this, but it is not always easy to control the boundary when the 2D-shape is skewed. I don't know if this is what you need to do here, but what i sometimes do if I want two paths with different slopes to meet both in 2D and 3D, is to clip the boundary a bit away from the end of it, so it is actually perpendicular to the longitudinal profile, and then place an aligned path between the two paths. I will create a transition between the two (or several) modifiers without having to adjust the profiles that may be more difficult to control. By the way, it might be easier to understand what is going on with the triangulation of the path and modifiers if you select Show the surface in 3D in the OIP and Fill set to none. Before: The two objects doesn't align i 3D After: The Modifier is aligning between the Paths
  10. Have you tried to use Style: Cross and deselect Display Leader Line? Label reference Elevation. The cross will replace the + in this case, and it will also mark the exact location for the Elevation point. But of course you loose some flexibility in placing the label as you need to have the label close to the cross. The Label Position can be right or left...
  11. I just did this: Use the Stake-tool in mode Set elev to site model and Proposed, and place it on the required place in your drawing. And use a class for your Proposed Stake/Elevation objects. Make another class for Existing and place new stakes at the same point (or copy/paste the proposed ones) and change it to read from Existing in OIP. Then you can have different graphic attributes on your classes, or font styles for Proposed and Existing to separate the two settings. For example like below where blue are Proposed and beige/brown are Existing
  12. Could you snap to the hardscape in 3D view, with the mode "Use as 2D/3D graphic only"? 3D Display should be set to Locus and your settings set to display 3D Locus always.
  13. kwik

    Contour labels

    I support all posts and wishes that is placed here and in many other threads on the forum. Coming from Civil 3D I was surprised to see how hard it was to manage a setup of labels the way I wanted them; automatic, and dynamic through updates of the site model. In Civil 3D you can draw a line with the labeling tool across the contours, and labels are placed along this line. And you can control the label on top of or above the contour, number of desimaler e.g. within the label style. A workaround while we are waiting for this long-wanted-fix is to use the stake object and snap it to the contours where you want the label. You can rotate it along the contour, and controle the units in the OIP. The benefit being that you dont need to manually type the correct elevation, but the backside being that you need to replace them if the site model changes.
  14. This is possible in v2024. There's a video about it on VW University https://university.vectorworks.net/mod/overview/view.php?id=5658
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