ramon.80175
2004-12-22, 01:33 AM
Hello Everyone,
I am new to these forums, and I'm also a bit green with Civil Design as we just cross-graded our LDD to the Subscription version of Civil Design and Civil 3D. I have tons of experience with just basic AutoCAD, but we purchased LDD and I have just now FINALLY got the technique down for creating a terrain model from our designs. Our goal is to be able to do visualizations and eventually export our terrains to VIZ for final rendering.
However I do NOT know how to model roads! This is where Civil Design comes in! We also purchased the book, "Digging into Autodesk land Desktop 2004" by Rick Ellis, which has gotten me as far as creating alignments, vertical curves, templates and all the methods for creating a model of a 3D Road. A very simple one! Very cool actually!
HOWEVER....I still don't know how to model the intersections or cul-de-sacs! I don't know how they tie in! I realize that under the LAYOUT menu I can find tools for intersections and cul-de-sacs, but these would just be 2D objects, correct? How can I actually have cul-de-sacs at the end of my roads modeled in 3D as well as having my intersections modeled?
I know I'm asking for a lot of help here, but if anyone can point me to other learning resources as well to get started that would be great! Does anyone know if the "Autodesk Civil Design 2005 Essentials - AOTC Courseware" is something that would be helpful for a beginner like me?
If it helps any, we are not trying to achieve precise civil quality roads and terrains for surveying, we just want to create awsome visualizations. I work for a planner and I input grades to build models from, and we would like to complete the package by being able to model roads and building pads to place houses on!
Sorry for the mouthful! :-o Thanks everyone!
I am new to these forums, and I'm also a bit green with Civil Design as we just cross-graded our LDD to the Subscription version of Civil Design and Civil 3D. I have tons of experience with just basic AutoCAD, but we purchased LDD and I have just now FINALLY got the technique down for creating a terrain model from our designs. Our goal is to be able to do visualizations and eventually export our terrains to VIZ for final rendering.
However I do NOT know how to model roads! This is where Civil Design comes in! We also purchased the book, "Digging into Autodesk land Desktop 2004" by Rick Ellis, which has gotten me as far as creating alignments, vertical curves, templates and all the methods for creating a model of a 3D Road. A very simple one! Very cool actually!
HOWEVER....I still don't know how to model the intersections or cul-de-sacs! I don't know how they tie in! I realize that under the LAYOUT menu I can find tools for intersections and cul-de-sacs, but these would just be 2D objects, correct? How can I actually have cul-de-sacs at the end of my roads modeled in 3D as well as having my intersections modeled?
I know I'm asking for a lot of help here, but if anyone can point me to other learning resources as well to get started that would be great! Does anyone know if the "Autodesk Civil Design 2005 Essentials - AOTC Courseware" is something that would be helpful for a beginner like me?
If it helps any, we are not trying to achieve precise civil quality roads and terrains for surveying, we just want to create awsome visualizations. I work for a planner and I input grades to build models from, and we would like to complete the package by being able to model roads and building pads to place houses on!
Sorry for the mouthful! :-o Thanks everyone!