Its been way too long since my last post!
Just looked at my blog and noticed it has been just about 3 months since my last posting! What does that mean/ It means I've been way too busy helping companies move from LDT to C3D! That is the good news the bad news is that I have had zero time to post.
Since my last post I have been to Nebraska, taken pictures at two music festables and spent a week in Alaska training a company C3D and now I'm about to leave for a week in New Hampshire to visit The Mother Ship "Auto desk"! Should be a fun week but the problem when I get back I can't tell anyone about it!
No disclosure agreement! ......... Top Secret!
But what I can tell you is what got me the ticket!
About a month ago I had a client that was having issues with Feature lines and a very large parking lot project. This parking lot is something like 45 acres in size includes something like 50 islands and two large ponds an out lot (convience store location) and the large building pad for the main store. (Can't tell you what store it is but it is huge hear in the central states.) He was trying to use feature lines to create the 50+ islands, the couple of thousand of feet of outer Curb and gutter and everything in between! Can you say fun! Not!
We'll I thought about it for a little and decided to try a concept I had used on a round about I did for another client. Now right now most people are modeling the top of the parking lots or better known as the top surface. What I have come up with is a way to model not just the top but also the datum surface; therefore allowing the designer to calc the true earthwork volumes of the entire site!
How you wonder? One word is corridors!...................... yes you ask so what.............. how are you going to stretch you subasseblies across all of those islands? And what about the high pts in between needed for drainage purposes?
Real simple! What I can up with is with just two type of assemblies this is possible and very stable! When I was finished with the entire site of 60+ baselines and one corridor, yes one corridor! I had no, zero, none, zip..... FEs!
This Assembly called Island: consists of three sub assemblies.
Right side: UrbanCurbandGutterGeneral - and BasicLaneTransition
Left Side: LaneOutsideSuper
The kicker here is that the LaneOutsideSuper is only .01 wide! Likewise on the lower assembly but this one has the LaneOutsideSuper on both sides of the assembly marker.........
What you get when you use these two is:
or a bigger view is this.
What got Dan Philbrick's attention was this intersection. What do you think of the bull noses? And remember the datum surface matches the Top surface!
Here is a close up of the Bull nose!
Did I mention that this is way simple!
E-mail me if you want the specifics! It is midnight and I need sleep!
Bill N.
bneu@alignex.com
Since my last post I have been to Nebraska, taken pictures at two music festables and spent a week in Alaska training a company C3D and now I'm about to leave for a week in New Hampshire to visit The Mother Ship "Auto desk"! Should be a fun week but the problem when I get back I can't tell anyone about it!
No disclosure agreement! ......... Top Secret!But what I can tell you is what got me the ticket!
About a month ago I had a client that was having issues with Feature lines and a very large parking lot project. This parking lot is something like 45 acres in size includes something like 50 islands and two large ponds an out lot (convience store location) and the large building pad for the main store. (Can't tell you what store it is but it is huge hear in the central states.) He was trying to use feature lines to create the 50+ islands, the couple of thousand of feet of outer Curb and gutter and everything in between! Can you say fun! Not!
We'll I thought about it for a little and decided to try a concept I had used on a round about I did for another client. Now right now most people are modeling the top of the parking lots or better known as the top surface. What I have come up with is a way to model not just the top but also the datum surface; therefore allowing the designer to calc the true earthwork volumes of the entire site!
How you wonder? One word is corridors!...................... yes you ask so what.............. how are you going to stretch you subasseblies across all of those islands? And what about the high pts in between needed for drainage purposes?
Real simple! What I can up with is with just two type of assemblies this is possible and very stable! When I was finished with the entire site of 60+ baselines and one corridor, yes one corridor! I had no, zero, none, zip..... FEs!
This Assembly called Island: consists of three sub assemblies.
Right side: UrbanCurbandGutterGeneral - and BasicLaneTransition
Left Side: LaneOutsideSuper
The kicker here is that the LaneOutsideSuper is only .01 wide! Likewise on the lower assembly but this one has the LaneOutsideSuper on both sides of the assembly marker.........
What you get when you use these two is:
or a bigger view is this.
What got Dan Philbrick's attention was this intersection. What do you think of the bull noses? And remember the datum surface matches the Top surface!
Here is a close up of the Bull nose!
Did I mention that this is way simple!
E-mail me if you want the specifics! It is midnight and I need sleep!
Bill N.
bneu@alignex.com
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