NOt sure how you would do this taking into account that you need a 3Dmodel of a surface to start with and their is more emphasis on accuracy of earth works visual models etc. 30 yr civil engineer Bigal,
I remember you asking a similar question on a thread originated by me sometime ago. I responded and you never replied back.
You are a forum diety and I believe I should take what you are asking for very seriously.
To begin with you made a mess in the quote. You said 30 years civil engineer. You or me?. I qualified my statement saying that my attempt is for 2D views. It is obvious to anybody that corridor modelling cannot be done with 2D. Experienced engineers can visualize how a completed road will look like from cross sections and layouts with fill and cut slopes marked on them. Nobody asks for 3Dviews or drive throughs (unlike walk throughs in Building projects) before approving tender or construction drawings either in this part of the world (South East Asia)or in Nigeria where I worked for many years (1975 - 1986). Many Italian, Israel and Middle eastern consutants were doing road designs with the state of the art software packages at that time. It does not matter if a draftperson takes some time to draw the details rather than use something like Civil 3D which uses corridor assemblies to accomplish the same thing. Civil 3D is not expensive according to a 3rd party vendor in Singapore; only about US$ 3500.00 . These software packages are becoming cheaper and cheaper. In 1990 when I arrived here my employer was considering to buy a package called Moss, it was prohibitively expensive; hence my attempt develop a software in AutoLisp. I had previously developed cross sections and earth works computaions individual cross sections. I successful in the attempt. A part of an expressway and a dual carriageway was built with these software and I thought Lisp is powerful. There was a long period of inactivity in the road design as I tranfered to another company which was handling mainly infrastructure project. I am a little bit free now decided to get back to my unfinished job.
This forum is helping me immensely to accomplish my task. I am a certified Java programmer (obtained in 2002 at the first attempt) and quite conversant with C#. I have the visual studio, therefore I will atempt 3D later. For now I will attempt Chapter 8, 9, cross sections and earth works as per Civil 3D tutorial.
The moto at the bottom of your posting should be an answer too.
BTW, I am Sri Lankan, are you originally Indian by any chance?. Forgive me for asking this silly question if you are not.
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