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  1. On 3/22/2024 at 7:56 PM, C_Howard said:

    One roundabout way is to change the attributes of the landscape area to the hatch I want but that gets reverted anytime I edit the settings of the landscape area. Meaning I have to change the attributes of all the different landscape areas each time I go to publish.

    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...

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  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.

    1. 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.
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    2. 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.
    3. 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 😊.

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  4. 24 minutes ago, Poot said:

    Or try a test by manually selecting a single/few text blocks directly and running the script.

    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!

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  5. On 11/18/2022 at 12:16 PM, mtrinca said:

    But when i try the above the a small table then appears and wants me to enter a Z value (and seems to want one for every point) so it's not actually transferring the number in the text as the value. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong here?

     

    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

  6. 11 minutes ago, aage.langedrag said:

    Maybe your wishes are on their way sooner than you know? 😉

    Yes! 

    There are a number of threads in here that is about contour labeling. Search them up and up-vote them all 🙂 

    On 1/9/2024 at 2:57 PM, aage.langedrag said:

    Select Site model and Reshape tool.

    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

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  7. 13 hours ago, TeeMuki said:

    To get the work done i'm changing it to a 3D-poly and setting up the Vertexes correctly manually.

    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 🙂 

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  8. 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

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    After: The Modifier is aligning between the Paths

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  9. 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

    image.thumb.png.85baf7b35d620222f9fd06150f563c31.png

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  10. 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.

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  11. In v2023 there was a huge time-saver for me when the option to update the Site Model was possible to do by selecting a Site Modifier, go to the OIP and hit the Update Site Model button. Doing ths in v2024, my model is turned into 2D contours or a Mesh + contours. The mesh/contours is not selectable and the Site Model is invisible! I am able to select it using Select All,. and I can bring it back to life with an Update, but it is a major issue for me! I got used to the new function in v2023, and I use it all the time. No I'm back to; change Layer to my Site Model Layer, select the Site Model and then OIP > Update. Then back to my Site Modifier Layer (or in other words, back to v2022). Anybody else having trouble with this?

     

    After Update Site Model - The Site Model is selected but not visible. Contours are just dead graphics on elevation 0

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    After Update:

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  12. On 10/27/2023 at 12:04 PM, deadtomorrow said:

    Hi Knut, I don't have the answer to your question, but please can you tell me where to access the path tool?

    Hi! The Pathway Path and Boundary Path is available in VW Landmark. From the Site Planning/Site Modifiers Tool set

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  13. I have an issue with the Site Modifier Path. It creates a Site Model with vertical surface along the edge of the Path. See image below where I’m trying to use the Path instead of a combination of 29 other objects to model a swale/small creek (it was modeled before the Path-tool was implementede). I call it the "Roadway-method" where the Roadway is the bottom of the swale and the side consists of Open Edge Lines.  Some Pads and Retaining Wall SM is also part of the model. Changing the swale’s layout is a lot of work due to its complexity with the many objects I need to change and/or modify. So therefore, my plan was to replace the Roadway with the Path and using Longitudeinal and Transverse profiles to make it follow the line I want in the terrain.

    SIte modifiers

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    Resulting Site Model

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  14. I'm a landscape architect in Norway and in working with government-projects the most common rule is that we need to deliver our data in an open format. Non-proprietary. In most cases it is the IFC-format that is being used, but in some projects we need to deliver our terrain model and 3D-data in a LandXML-format. Also source data from a survey can be provided as LandXML that we need to import. To my knowledge this is most common in projects within transportation, such as road and rail planning. 

    We can do this in Civil 3D, but it would be much easier of course, if we could do this directly in Vectorworks, and not being dependent of Civil 3D to do the job. And also possibly loosing data from Vectorworks to DWG before going to Civil 3D. 

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  15. Hi

    Do anyone know an easy way to sum up values in a worksheet? I have a worksheet that reports Areas from Polylines, and the total area is summed up and is easily displayed in the worksheet as well. But I would also like to sum up parts of the worksheet-values, only some of the sub-rows. For  example I have tried to sum up the area of the polylines R4a to R4d below, but it only returns the total area for all the sub-rows 3.1 to 3.12. Se also attached file for details

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    Sum of sub-rows.vwx

  16. You could try to divide the shape into 5 different site-modifier-shapes. Two paths on each side, the semicircle as a sloping pad and aligned pads in between that will automatically «glue» themselves to the connecting path and pad. That way it would be much easier to do changes to sloping or layout.

     

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  17. When I use the Landmark > Survey input > Import Survey File ... and want to create Stake objects for every point in the survey file, the preferences in the Stake Object must be set before importing. If the Stake object is set to Mode: Set elev to site model, and if there is a site model in the file, the elevation / z-value from the imported Stake Objects will be overridden and set to the elevation of the Site Model. In order to prevent this the preferences for the Stake must be set to Mode: Use as 2D/3D graphic only, or one of the other modes. If you forget to set the Mode-pref before importing (...) the elevations can be completely wrong (it took me a while to notice that the elevations were wrong...). There should be a warning or an option in the Import Survey File dialogue to prevent this. 

    In the Modify > Convert > Stake Object from 3D Locus the prefs for the Stake Object pops up. Could you do the same for the Survey Import File ?

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