pipo Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I have point cloud data for a very complex terrain form (mountain range and valley) Is it possible to generate a mesh from this data and if so how? The contour lines for the is number several thousand and though they are at correct heights , i know z won't handle the calculation. It fails on much smaller projects....the number of lines to check with the contour doctor also fails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Hi Pipo, Currently there is no an option to generate a mesh from a series of points, but we are looking into that for the future. You should be able to generate a Terrain from thousands of contours. The factor that will determine how long it will take is typically the spacing that you have for the Mesh of the Terrain (and if you divide the length of your site by 100, and use that as the mesh spacing, then that would generate a terrain with 10,000 faces if the site was square). If the Contour Doctor is not able to handle the check in a reasonable amount of time, can you please send a file containing only these contours so we can take a look? And if you don't need the density of the contours, perhaps you could use every other, or every 4th contour to generate the terrain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dworks Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 maybe use sketchup with this extension, straightforward and free: how about to implement such a feature in FZ? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipo Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 Thanks Markus Actually used sandbox which has the other advantage of not requiring a site boundary Took 5 hours ( formz still trying after 12 hours however I suspect it has failed....waiting for the mysterious awakening from 'application not responding' ) If formz could purloin a few (more) sketchup features ,one would have to be would be this sandbox type tool set Attached the terrain for interests sake and note we have generated terrains of this complexity but ten times larger using sandbox... A private coastal landholding in Turkey about to be desecrated with development Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dworks Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 nice! i found also this very interesting plugin for simplifying the terrain: https://valiarchitects.com/subscription_scripts/instant-terrain see also the nice road tool from the same script developer... please autodessys ( or some third party developer ), can we have such a tool suite some day for FZ? ;-) cheers markus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipo Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 Hey Markus Yes , one of our partners here is continuously astonishing me with the abilities of sketchup and its plugin (the above mentioned is an often used menu item) So many pros knocking it (sketchup) but the ease with which some very complex tasks can be achieved is undeniable. (For us revit models are far more a curse than sketchup in terms of usability of data) ** fz should also duplicate the sketchup arc/curve tool...so simple to draw/maintain tangential curves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Hi Pipo, Generating that terrain should be very easy in formZ. If you haven't sent your file yet, please do so and we will see if there are any issues. Thanks for the other suggestions, we will consider these for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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