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Title: Create a pitched roof warehouse style building from a footprint?
Post by: JL4017 on March 10, 2023, 05:17:23 PM

Hi

Does anyone know if it's possible to create a pitched roof warehouse style building from a spline footprint in Railclone?

I'm looking to create something like the image below. 

All samples / tutorial videos I've seen of buildings from splines are flat roof only.

thanks

Neil

Title: Re: Create a pitched roof warehouse style building from a footprint?
Post by: Paul Roberts on March 10, 2023, 05:22:13 PM

Maybe this extract from one of our webinars is of help, although it does use pre-size modular buildings.

https://www.youtube.com/live/AKIJanGuo88?feature=share&t=898 (https://www.youtube.com/live/AKIJanGuo88?feature=share&t=898)

Best,
Paul

Title: Re: Create a pitched roof warehouse style building from a footprint?
Post by: JL4017 on March 13, 2023, 12:17:21 PM

Thanks Paul,

I'm looking to create the buildings from a spline footprint, but the important thing is having a pitched roof, ie. If i have geometry like this (see image), can I cleanup the location where the geometry joins at the top of the roof somehow? highlighted in red
 

Title: Re: Create a pitched roof warehouse style building from a footprint?
Post by: Paul Roberts on March 13, 2023, 12:59:10 PM

I'm afraid there's not a way to clean that area up, RailClone isn't able to detect that intersection. If your warehouses are always rectangular, a simpler approach shown in the attached file might be suitable.

(https://i.imgur.com/6bBra5j.gif)

Cheers,

Paul

Title: Re: Create a pitched roof warehouse style building from a footprint?
Post by: JL4017 on April 03, 2023, 10:33:28 AM

thanks Paul! will have a look at this file

Neil