How to get Tin Surface profile?

pedroloureiro
pedroloureiro
in BricsCAD BIM

Plans can recognize tin surfaces.

Nonetheless profile sections do not apear on bim sections or elevations.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Comments

  • Virgil
    Virgil

    Hello.

    BIMSECTION doesn't work with TIN surfaces when it itersects the TIN.
    This feature is being considered but it is not available yet.

    To keep the editing capabilities, for now, you could use a copy of the TIN surface and explode it twice.
    This will create a polyface mesh - this one can be used with BIMSECTION.
    After the TIN surface is changed, the old mesh should be deleted and a new one should be created in the same way - copy TIN and explode it twice.

    To get a profile of the surface, without displaying the cut surface beyond the section plane (the triangles), you could use a section using the Volume state.
    Then, set the depth of the volume (drag the depth grip or edit vertices in Properties panel) to a very small value, close to 0, but not quite.

    This will generate a section view very close to the profile, but not exactly.
    However, for some purposes, this approach could be useful.

    Also, all other entities displayed is such a section view will be drawn as profiles as well, there depth will be very small, as set in the previous step.

  • pedroloureiro
    pedroloureiro

    Thank you very much for your alternatives Virgil.
    These are nice workarounds.
    Anyway, I hope to see tin surfaces directly working with bim sections in the future. The bim workflow and final result would improve a lot.