Retaining wall for corridor visualization

[SigridJD]

I have made a corridor with "out of the box" assembly. 

The first problem, is that there appears a new surface in the section view, that I can not relate to the assembly (see attached pdf)

The second problem, is that when I choose render or object viewer, the retaining wall has no surface/render material (see attached pdf). In the code style, I have choosen a render-material.

In the pdf file you can see the code set style and subassembly properties.

Many thanks for any input 🙂

[david.zavislan]

You probably need to add a boundary to the corridor surface.  You can do that on the Boundary tab of the corridor properties window.  Try the Corridor extents as outer boundary option. 

I tried rendering with the retaining wall subassembly.  The links in that subassembly use the "Top" link code name. (I read this in the Subassembly Reference help document)  I was not able to get them to render. 

Another option would be to generate solids from the corridor.  This can be done with the Extract Corridor Solids function.

[SigridJD]

Thanks for the suggestion David.

I tried Corridor extents as outer boundary option and adding top-link surface and a render material to the wall. This did not change the appearance in object viewer.

I tried the extract solids function, but this is new to me, so I need to spend more time working with it. I will get back to you on how it goes.

Thanks for the input.

[Joe-Bouza]

What version? I have trouble in 2014 with the wall sub

[SigridJD · Accepted solution]

I use Autocad civil 2014. Now I have updated to 2015. 

The retaining wall still hase no surface, but when imported into 3ds max with civil view, it has a surface. So I will use 3ds max for rendering.