Hey guys, I am trying to make a site model of an area of a city that is roughly 6000ft by 6000ft or 2km by 2km (probably slightly less). I would like the site model to include the topography of the site (elevational changes) as well as the buildings and roads of the site area. I’ve tried watching …

Hi - [image] clonosis: Maybe I’ll have better luck using a plugin like Elk or Gismo. The main difference between Elk and Gismo, perhaps, is that, for Elk, you need to download the information yourself and point Elk to that information. Gismo needs a point of interest and will then download t…

I am in a similar predicament to this individual’s issue. [image] Move buildings to contour site model Rhino for Windows I’m a newbie. I’m trying to move my site buildings to the site contour model. I would like for each building to sit on the contour closest to it vert…

[image] clonosis: 135mb Well … unless you have the entire Moon in mind this is rather odd: I mean we are taking about curves here (contours + site data [ i.e. buildings, roads, cats and dogs]). Anyway … given the contours and their elevation attribute you can do a 3d “solid” (or sheet like)…

Thank you for your thorough answer! For specificity’s sake, here are some screenshots of the big contour file that I have. The size of this rhino file that includes all the contours is 723,470 kb. (the 135mb one I mentioned (actually 156,182 kb) is a version of the full contour that had been croppe…

[image] clonosis: lagging my computer. I rather predict some pain and tears (but hope dies last). Using, say, Patch (a very tricky thingy that one) for that amount of contours … well … it’s a “bit” challenging. Also have in mind that R is a surface modeller … meaning that is rather slow VS “s…

(a) 5 (b) 1 I may be too much of a newbie in both gh and c# for you to help me hahahahaha

[image] clonosis: too much You are a wise lion.

I think my classmate got these contours off of GIS, but yes, it is quite… detailed. Maybe I’ll have better luck using a plugin like Elk or Gismo.

[image] clonosis: I’ll have better luck [Screen Shot 098] BTW: if (b) was 10 you’ll need at least 100 to 200 hours of work for some sort of pro level solution for that.

Ah I see. Thank you for clarifying the differences between Elk and Gismo. It looks like both plugins can create what I need, but Gismo may be easier for me. What do you think are the benefits of using Elk over Gismo, and vice versa? Is one more detailed/accurate than the other? Is Gismo more limiti…

Hi - [image] clonosis: Is one more detailed/accurate than the other? Is Gismo more limiting than Elk in the solids/forms, etc. that it creates? Both use external data that neither those plug-ins nor you have any control over. Other than that, they both use the same geometry functions that ar…

Creating a site model with topography & buildings

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clonosis (Clonosis) September 30, 2021, 8:10pm 2

I am in a similar predicament to this individual’s issue.

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Creating a site model with topography & buildings

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