mcrump Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I'm designing a chemical plant that has two sunken loading docks on each side of the building. Each dock will support two semi trucks. Truck wells wide enough for two trucks are normally 48" deep, 24' wide and an 80' long flat concrete surface before sloping up to the street. This length allows the trailer to dock perpendicular to the loading dock wall. Is this even possible? Has anyone ever tried to depict a flat, then sloped depression in a terrain? Would I be better off building the terrain out of a primitive and subtracting other primitive shapes from it? Understand this is for illustrative purposes only. I plan to export the model into Lumion and render a fly over animation for the client. Using X7 beta by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrump Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Is this even possible line should have been at the end of the second paragraph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Michael, It's very easy to do something like this with a terrain. Is this what you are after? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLDrafting Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Like Glenn Said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrump Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Holy Cow! That's exactly what I'm after. You guys are amazing! Would either of you care to enlighten me on the technique to accomplish this? Many thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLDrafting Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 I don't have a step by step answer, but 1. Hole in terrain, 2. Block foundation wall, 3. Cross section view to create polyline solid for the ramp. The guardrail is required and is a fence. The slab is just a slab drive. There is a sump at the bottom (not shown exactly). There are design guides for truck wells online. The actual project has a leveler installed that I did not do for the graphic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 My approach was a little different. I used Terrain Breaks to form the vertical steps. Elevation lines to shape it all. Terrain feature for the concrete. wheel wells.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 My approach was a little different. I used Terrain Breaks to form the vertical steps. Elevation lines to shape it all. Terrain feature for the concrete. I would take Glenn's approach, but I am sure both approaches would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrump Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Thanks all. It was a great help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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