Building Bridges

[Jose Antonio Dorado]

Post here your questions and comments about the Building Bridges tutorial.

[phxdwl]

I have a bride alignment that is in a civil view alignment and I have a civil view existing grade surface that is not flat. Is it possible to calculate the base points and the scale of the bridge pillars using the surface in the expression?
i have rail clone pro

[Paul Roberts]

Hi!,

Thanks for the question. Though there are no surface variables in the expressions editor, you can still use the XSplineCoords.z variable because internally the base spline is being conformed to the surface. You can see some solutions and example files that may be of use on this thread.

Also attached to this post are some examples that use theses techniques with a surface to illustrate how this can be done. In the first example the pillars are scaled using a spline for the top and a surface for the bottom.



In the second example the pillars are scaled between two surfaces. Note that in the top RC object has been rotated by 180 degreed to project onto the surface above.



I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any further questions.

Many thanks,

Paul