Civil Profile 3d Cut - Add depth of cut like Section Callout tool
Currently, the named boundary civil profile tool only takes a slice through a model. It would be extremely useful to be able to specify a depth (clip volume) to capture more geometry that what is being sliced through
Agreed 100%. Cut Depth Front and Cut Depth Back need to be added to the 3D Cut properties as shown in my attached image. This would be a huge improvement!
Another use of this enhancement could be to display point cloud on profiles 3d cut similar to displaying point cloud on cross sections. This would be very helpful and would avoid the need to create terrain or scalable mesh from point cloud just to be able to display the information on road profile. Currently, it is not possible to display pint cloud on profiles or profile 3d cut as there is no depth / thickness option.
In that video they use the section callout tool, which is ineffective on curved bridges. The civil profile 3D cut is what we need, just need to be able to specify a depth with that tool.
Please see the YouTube link for how to do this. This can be done in all civil products since it is using MicroStation tools. I've updated the title of the idea to reflect the need. Let me know if I've gotten anything wrong. Thanks!
I should have listed the idea as an enhancement to the 3D profile cut tool. An example of where we need this is when creating bridge elevation views. A slice with the 3D cut does not capture all the geometry that we need to display on the elevation view. We need to be able to specify a depth of the clip volume to capture the 3D elements that are not along the "slice", and show them on the profile view.
I'm a little confused. Currently, the Name Boundary profile tool does not take a slice through a model; the 3D Cut does. Could you provide some information of when something like this would be useful?
I have not seen the ability to add depth with the 3D profile cut tool. It still only slices through the model. You can offset the cut/splice, but cannot specify a depth
Agreed 100%. Cut Depth Front and Cut Depth Back need to be added to the 3D Cut properties as shown in my attached image. This would be a huge improvement!
Another use of this enhancement could be to display point cloud on profiles 3d cut similar to displaying point cloud on cross sections. This would be very helpful and would avoid the need to create terrain or scalable mesh from point cloud just to be able to display the information on road profile. Currently, it is not possible to display pint cloud on profiles or profile 3d cut as there is no depth / thickness option.
In that video they use the section callout tool, which is ineffective on curved bridges. The civil profile 3D cut is what we need, just need to be able to specify a depth with that tool.
Please see the YouTube link for how to do this. This can be done in all civil products since it is using MicroStation tools. I've updated the title of the idea to reflect the need. Let me know if I've gotten anything wrong. Thanks!
https://youtu.be/KuG17wffrUI?t=2107
I should have listed the idea as an enhancement to the 3D profile cut tool. An example of where we need this is when creating bridge elevation views. A slice with the 3D cut does not capture all the geometry that we need to display on the elevation view. We need to be able to specify a depth of the clip volume to capture the 3D elements that are not along the "slice", and show them on the profile view.
I'm a little confused. Currently, the Name Boundary profile tool does not take a slice through a model; the 3D Cut does. Could you provide some information of when something like this would be useful?
I have not seen the ability to add depth with the 3D profile cut tool. It still only slices through the model. You can offset the cut/splice, but cannot specify a depth
This functionality kind of already exists. If you use a 3d profile cut, you can set the depth. Does that fit your needs?