Hi All,
I’ve extracted solids from a corridor and was wondering if there is a specific node that lets me extract the length of those solids in plan?
Hi @sobeshan.pillay ,
Could you define “length” in Solid?
A solid can be a lot of different shapes with a various amount of faces.
Similar to the alignment baseline that the corridor was modeled on.
I see,
Since a Solid doesn’t really have a defined length you would have to “create” one yourself.
You could perhaps use the vector of the Baseline to see which point would be the entering point into the solid, together with the vector.
Then, after transforming your solid into surfaces, you could project that point, using the vector from before, to find the other intersection point. Now you have two points.
However this is just one of the possible options.
You could also perhaps use the surfaces of the solids, find the biggest one which is vertical and use its normal vector to get the intersection point of the other “big” surface.
can you show the properties of the baseline as shown in the Design and the Extended Data tab?
Hi @sobeshan.pillay,
I believe the best way to do this is to assign the property set data when creating the solids. Then you can read the start and end station values and compute the length.