Ozzie Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Brian, That is staggeringly amazing Would not have found that in a million years!! D Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 That's great Brian. I followed your advice but I still get a benched look. The grade I'm trying to place these barriers on is approx an 8% grade. I raise the Nurbs curve by half the height of the barrier as the insertion point of the curve into the barrier seems to be at the mid point. The challenge continues.... Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Good morning Jamie, are you certain they're not hybrid symbols? can you post a file with the nurbs curve & one symbol for us? Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Good morning to you Brian. Thank you very much for all the time and effort you have put into this question. Yes it is a 3d symbol, I even took your symbol from your attached file and used it. See attached. I suppose the 8% grade makes this application a bit tougher. Not sure what adjustments I could make at this point. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 are you placing a new symbol from the RB before running DAP or are you using one that's already on the Design Layer (and rotated)? Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 I am placing a new symbol from the RB. No rotation... Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Got it; Uncheck - Keep Original Orientation Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 I tried that a couple of times. This is what I got. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Perfect! Why not run with that Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Thank you Brian for helping me out with this. A long distance call (on your nickle) and a half hour on Skype did the trick. Attached is the exciting finished product. For anyone trying to do this in the future here is what was done: Rebuilt symbol (as Brian showed me on Skype) and ensured it was laying flat. Symbol was made by using a polygon and extruding. The previous symbol was a solid subtraction. Placed a Nurbs curve on the edge of my model (road edge)were I wanted the barriers to be and raised the elevation by half the height of the symbol. If you don't do this the symbol will duplicate along path using its mid point and it will sink the symbol into the surface. Imported symbol into drawing in top plan view. Selected both and DOP checking tangent. Works perfectly. I added 1" to the object spacing so you can see the individual segments. Wow... can't believe this is done. Thanks to all. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Glad you got it Jamie, Looks great Quote Link to comment
J. Wallace Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Just discovered one crucial step. When placing the symbol into the drawing, in top view click and place, do not rotate or change the way the symbol wants to place itself within the drawing. I found if I place and rotate this symbol it will not lay flat on the surface, it wants to step up with the grade. Quote Link to comment
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