185 Mile Long Pipeline!
@sduffin, I don't see any problem for that size in a single model, depending you take note of a couple of things.
- Current limitation of the Model Builder is 200 km², you can easily create a model based on a 1 km buffer along your Alignment and 200 km length right now. Use AutoCAD Map 3D or Civil 3D for creating the buffer as a closed polygon and (map)export that to *.SHP for use in Model Builder.
- The Rolling Sandbox version of InfraWorks 360 goes way beyond this and if you really need to create larger base models I suggest you get yourselve listed in the beta program so you can start creating extremely large models.
- If you don't want to use Model Builder as a base model and have the right GIS data sources access, then just go for it and take note of these very good tips and tricks on the BIMagination blog.
- Also check this post from @elliott.rosenfeld and the tips shared. Elliot has personally created models of over 14.000 km² so whats the big deal?
Below also an example of an InfraWorks 360 model I created of a 300 km long stretch accross the Netherlands, from South to North:
Big, bigger, biggest
Wow John! Impressive that you've got such excellent imagery for the entire globe rendering. Or did you replace the default globe imagery? Mind sharing your process?
Last time I looked into doing a model of the entire globe was in early 2015, and I didn't go into such excellent detail at that point. Here's what I did, if I remember correctly.
- Force infraworks 360 to render the ENTIRE GLOBE using shp polygons for continent coverage areas styled grass green, then changed default terrain to blue, so that ocean areas are blue.
- Added the International Space Station to my model as a 3D model object, correctly locating it in static position. (I found a 3D model of ISS on SketchUp, and imported it as city furniture (or POI would work also, I assume). I gave it a real world coordinate location based on its current location, using X/Y for lat/long, then a vertical offset of 408,000 meters (i.e. altitude above earth of 408 km).
- Also added an <iframe> to the NASA page for the ISS.
Here are a couple of views:
publicly available data tracking ISS
ISS and globe (this used a tiny Model Builder model with the ISS added to it.)
ISS over simple continents (never tried adding imagery)
I actually never finished what I was attempting to do...got pulled away into work. My end goal was to continually refresh the location of the Space Station in my model using JavaScript or Python. I found a couple of publicly available modules that looked like they would do the trick, but I didn't find the time to play around with it.
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- public JavaScript module (https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js) that provides position and velocity of ISS. (given these Celestrak TLEs for ISS:
ISS (ZARYA)
1 25544U 98067A 15198.41643006 .00013727 00000-0 20635-3 0 9997
2 25544 51.6459 293.0637 0001430 239.1386 208.2086 15.55163969952745)
- public JavaScript module (https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js) that provides position and velocity of ISS. (given these Celestrak TLEs for ISS:
Another couple of items on my wish list for BIG InfraWorks 360 projects when I find time are:
- model the entire Pacific Ocean and associated coastlines in order to simulate Tsunami impact arrival times for earthquake/storm events.
- add a custom coordinate system for Mars to an IW360 project and use NASA imagery/terrain data for the red planet, then track Curiosity's path along the planet in realtime.
- Use simple JPG imagery from NASA to wrap JPG textures around spheres in a photo editing application, then create a scale model of the Solar System inside IW360.
Sorry to get carried away on your thread @sduffin 🙂
@elliott.rosenfeld, your ideas rock!
Let's see how far we can take this (think we need another thread )
For now, I managed to set the Moon in place, some 384400 km from Earth with a radius of 1737 km. In this image, its zenith is just west of Thailand:
I even managed to get a view of the Moon in te sky from my exact home coordinate which is in the Netherlands:
@elliott.rosenfeld anyone can start up a model and invite others to collaborate. I encourage @John_DeLeeuw to be the pioneer here 🙂
Eric Chappell
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