I have a Civil 3D surface of a levee. I can import that into Infraworks but it is recognized as terrain, so it is merged into the existing terrain (DEM) that I am using so the existing aerials are being draped over the Civil 3D surface as well. I don't want that to happen. My Civil 3D surface is proposed, new, not existing. Why should it be merged into the exiting ground?
I have tried bringing it in as an .imx file and LandXML, with the same results. I don't want this to happen.
The effect I want is like what used to happen when exporting to Google Earth. I want to see a grass covered levee (from my Civil 3D surface) over my existing ground with the aerial image underneath (the aerial obviously not visible in those areas).
This seems like it should be pretty simple but I'm missing something apparently. Please tell me this is possible!
That's the way InfraWorks handles terrains.
What you can do is import your terrain and then draw a Land Coverage over it. You can apply a style to the land coverage to get the look you want and as long as you don't edit its vertices it will drape over your design surface (and OG if you draw it out that far.)
Best regards,
Tim
I suppose you can convert the Civil 3D surface to a solid and then import that as city furniture. Haven't tried it but it might work. I wouldn't do that for a complex surface though.
Thanks for the responses. I'll give one of them a shot soon.
Am I just looking at this the wrong way or does this not seem like something that should be a very simple and often used task? Everything we design in C3D is not a corridor that can be imported. We use various surfaces for design features actually way more than corridors. Shouldn't we be able to simply import a C3D surface and have it display? That just seems to me like a very basic and often used task that I assumed that InfraWorks without any doubt would be able to do, without first converting it to this, then converting to that....how about "import surface" hey look, there it is!
I'm too simple I guess.
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Yes, it would be nice if you could apply a style to any imported surfaces, allowing differentiation. Alas, not at this time.
Let's hope that one is at the top of the development list....and not just for the 360 version....
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Neil, can you share the additional steps you took?
I have been tasked to do this same thing this weekend, and I have to present on Monday. I have to build a living wall for shoreline stabilization.