Uses for new TIN surface feature
I just got the chance to go through the TIN surface, and other civil tools in V20 Platinum+.
I created a tin surface of 1.5 million tris in a few seconds, so the underlying engine is good.
The boundaries work well so looks like you could build surfaces and do volumes quite well.
I don't see tools for contour creation and labeling. It has landxml out though so you could pull into other progs.
I'll have to see if there is a .net API for the objects so I can interact with them.
The alignments feature seems fairly rudimentary currently. Its likely good for viewing cross sections.
The PVI placement is purely picks, not ability to enter stations or elevations by typing numbers.
The bricsys team is getting it right though, as their "3D Alignment" is the combination of a true horizontal and vertical alignment.
I'm glad they adopted the name I gave my tool for that, like someone naming their kid after yours 
The deform and smooth surface features are interesting ideas, but did not modify my surfaces for some reason.
I'm not worried about those. The underlying hard stuff seems in order - surface engine and containers for horizontal and vertical alignments.
Hopefully this will grow into a civil3d replacement but would like to hear if teams were involved in its development and what situations were targeted with current features.
thx
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Contours are a style setting (see PROPS dialog). Wondering when you would get around to looking at this. Also see:
https://forum.bricsys.com/discussion/25736/surfaces-in-bcad#latest
https://forum.bricsys.com/discussion/35465/civiltinsurface-creation#latest
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@Terry Dotson
I just realized that a bit ago, and tried changing the contours to on and nothing happened.
Also, I tried to save the drawing and it said a process was in action so could not.
I'm doing a 30k tri surface, rather small.
Everything else works fine, try attached dwg.thx for the links, I'll read those!
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Thanks for giving me a TIN surface to look at - wierd! Something else has to happen before it looks intelligibly 'real', or conveys a visual impression of shape.
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I didn't have much luck working in your drawing as it was. I had to insert it into a new empty drawing and recreate the TIN, used all your geometry as breaklines, set small contour interval and it showed contours.
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So can we see what it looks like now, Terry?
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Bricsys recreated the issue so is working on it. Will be interesting to see how I sabotaged their feature.
@Terry Dotson You said something about speed of HighC, or someone did. Is that a triangulation engine?0 -
That's a high priced civil package that starts with "C", you are very familiar with it.
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oh, you mean VOLDEMORT!
I can imagine its bad manners to recommend competitive progs on a vendors forum, but not when just comparing.
Heck, half the fun in my day is bashing ****desk on their forum. I basically define bad forum manners, but I try not to pick on users.0
