Export Contours from the surface using Genio exporter

[oreillysea]

Hi All

I'm only new to C3D and need to output the contours my surface model to a genio for use in Mx. I have the Genio exporter tool installed but when i output the genio all that appears is the Boundary line without the contours, which when i think about it makes sense as the surface contours is more a display option rather than actual contours. Is there a way of exporting the contours via genio.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

S

[wfberry]

I know nothing about Genio.  Perhaps you could save your file under a new name, explode the surface to get to polylines, then use them.  You may have to explode twice, I don't remember.

Bill

[neilyj666]

I'm not in front of civil right now but will look at the options in work tomorrow unless someone comes up with the solution for you by then. ..

[andrewpuller3811]

I just tested the GENIO exporter and unfortunately it looks like it only exports the boundary of surfaces, which makes it pretty useless for surfaces.

You can export surfaces to Land XML format which should allow you to import them into MX.

With the drawing open, go to the Output tab of the ribbon, then on the Export panel select Export to LandXML. This will bring up a dialogue in which you can select the objects you want to export, then click ok and specify a file name and location to save to.

I'm not familiar with MX, so you will have to take it from there.

[neilyj666]

I'd agree with this (you could also extract the surface triangles and WBLOCK to a dxf/dwg which may work for MX; its been a long time since I used MX so not sure what it can and cannot handle)

As an aside, I would strongly advise you not to use contour information as a means of exchanging surface data between various software packages as this is probably the least accurate means to ensure fidelity between the surfaces in e.g. Civil and MX.