Just curious about other Curb and Gutter workflows using DVSP3.5 and 3DS MAX.

I’ve been dabbling in making Swept Objects out of the 3 or 4 splines that make up a curb and gutter. I’ve discovered that when using multiple splines to span across, you must first make sure all the splines involved are “headed in the right direction”. By this, I mean that their first vertex is on the same end as all the other ‘fist vertexes’.  It works pretty good but I can’t seem to be able to save the Swept Object Style when using a Multispline Parent Shape for construction of a swept object.

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I Just make the curb and gutter using one of the actual design strings and Sweep(loft) a cross-sectional shape.  I reccommend the Sweep modifier inside of MAX. It is flexible and better than Loft for most things.
I haven’t used the ‘Build Profile From Shape’ option in the SOS Editor but will look into later.

Hope to hear about some different techniques from the community.

Thanks,

Brian

My personal favourite is to use two rail objects for this, which won’t seem like the most obvious solution - but it works really well. The beauty of all the style based methods in DVSP is that you can generate (in this case) a rail style, and save it to your country kit. Then by referencing this from a Feature Interpretation Style, you can have kerb a gutter geometry placed along all imported spline geometry from InRoads automatically.

This can either be achieved by referencing the splines by name during import, or if the names aren’t in the LandXML file, you could ask for a LandXML file which includes only the kerb splines, and apply the Feature Interpretation Style to the full contents of the file.

I’ll see if I can drag out my kerb/gutter rail object style.

Thanks Bruce for the tip.

I’ll have to try the Rail technique. I can’t do it on Import right now as my Microstation person can’t seem to export the LandXML file in a way where I can see all the individual Strings. I see one String, in the Import Panel, with 414 objects in it. Any clues to seperating these out? I can still see them and access them individually in MAX anyways.

BTW. I love DVSP. Can’t stop experimenting with it and playing around. It has also opened up my job possibilities considerably. Thanks for that.

Brian.