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Hi there,
I'm struggling big time to create a custom traffic sign and then import it into Infraworks. This is my workflow:
- Blank drawing in Civil 3D. Dwt is in meters. Create shape of sign (0.60m x 0.45m rectangle with fillet on each corner R=0.05m, thickness is 0.0016m). So I start with a rectangle, fillet corners, extrude it.
- I them move the solid to 0,0,0 and rotate it 3D using the rotate gizmo to have upside down.
- Apply steel generic steel material to the entire solid by drag and drop
- Create new material from image downloaded from the internet (see below). Format is GIF. I make sure the the size is matching the rectangle (0.60x0.45) and select None for both the horizontal and vertical repetition.
- I then apply this material to one face only by holding control when dragging. I then apply Material Mapping Planar to make sure it's nicely centred.
- Everything looks fine. So I export to FBX format. Select entities, no lights, no cameras, embeded textures.
I know jump into Infraworks, open the model and select the data sources/ 3D Model. I configure the object and first of all, for some reason I have to scale it up 100 times, otherwise it's tiny (Why!?). Infraworks is set in metric system in meters. I set type to City Furniture and select Interactive Placing, and all I get it's this.
I tried several things like not embedding the materials. I created a brand new sign even using another shape and picture. Same result.
Does anybody come up with this issue? Any help would be highly appreciated.
Cheers
Javier
Hi there,
I'm struggling big time to create a custom traffic sign and then import it into Infraworks. This is my workflow:
- Blank drawing in Civil 3D. Dwt is in meters. Create shape of sign (0.60m x 0.45m rectangle with fillet on each corner R=0.05m, thickness is 0.0016m). So I start with a rectangle, fillet corners, extrude it.
- I them move the solid to 0,0,0 and rotate it 3D using the rotate gizmo to have upside down.
- Apply steel generic steel material to the entire solid by drag and drop
- Create new material from image downloaded from the internet (see below). Format is GIF. I make sure the the size is matching the rectangle (0.60x0.45) and select None for both the horizontal and vertical repetition.
- I then apply this material to one face only by holding control when dragging. I then apply Material Mapping Planar to make sure it's nicely centred.
- Everything looks fine. So I export to FBX format. Select entities, no lights, no cameras, embeded textures.
I know jump into Infraworks, open the model and select the data sources/ 3D Model. I configure the object and first of all, for some reason I have to scale it up 100 times, otherwise it's tiny (Why!?). Infraworks is set in metric system in meters. I set type to City Furniture and select Interactive Placing, and all I get it's this.
I tried several things like not embedding the materials. I created a brand new sign even using another shape and picture. Same result.
Does anybody come up with this issue? Any help would be highly appreciated.
Cheers
Javier
@Anonymous, you say your working in meters both in Civil 3D and InfraWorks but once imported in InfraWorks you have a scale problem of 100. What Coordinate system did you set in C3D and InfraWorks (DB and UCS)?
It's my guess this is initially causing your problem because I don't have any problems ussing your exact workflow.
@Anonymous, you say your working in meters both in Civil 3D and InfraWorks but once imported in InfraWorks you have a scale problem of 100. What Coordinate system did you set in C3D and InfraWorks (DB and UCS)?
It's my guess this is initially causing your problem because I don't have any problems ussing your exact workflow.
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