hej Paul,
I am working for the harbour department, we deal a lot of harbour projects with sheeppile walls. different from other departments, we need the sheet piles to be modeled quite detailed up for BIM usage. fx. maybe for a road, railway project, sheetpile walls can modeled as a line with special signature, but we will have to model it up so that it as the correct modul length, height, with at least section area and unit weight as information attached to the elements. the way of breaking the file according to the stage/ detail level of the project works maybe OK in some degrees. but it will be difficult to maintain the project afterwards. we can use a line element as sheetpiles, and detailed 3d elements for further project. but to maintain/transfer element information from a line element to the 3D objects will be a very diffcult job.... and I have to take the PC performance and file size into consideration. unless bentley is going to fix the profile function, otherwise I have to find something else. I even used PC studio to make 3D sheetpiles. its actually an OK tool because the 2D plan function can reduce the time for 2D drawings. but making a 3d model in PCS is not that easy.......
furthermore, we would like to commuinitcate with our road/ railway department. so far I can see AECOsim objects can not be used in inroads model ( that will be another question I post later.....)
thx
Leo
I am working for the harbour department, we deal a lot of harbour projects with sheeppile walls. different from other departments, we need the sheet piles to be modeled quite detailed up for BIM usage. fx. maybe for a road, railway project, sheetpile walls can modeled as a line with special signature, but we will have to model it up so that it as the correct modul length, height, with at least section area and unit weight as information attached to the elements. the way of breaking the file according to the stage/ detail level of the project works maybe OK in some degrees. but it will be difficult to maintain the project afterwards. we can use a line element as sheetpiles, and detailed 3d elements for further project. but to maintain/transfer element information from a line element to the 3D objects will be a very diffcult job.... and I have to take the PC performance and file size into consideration. unless bentley is going to fix the profile function, otherwise I have to find something else. I even used PC studio to make 3D sheetpiles. its actually an OK tool because the 2D plan function can reduce the time for 2D drawings. but making a 3d model in PCS is not that easy.......
furthermore, we would like to commuinitcate with our road/ railway department. so far I can see AECOsim objects can not be used in inroads model ( that will be another question I post later.....)
thx
Leo