Having a hard time making this straight flare driveway cutting the curb. Any ideas on how to go about doing it?

[snoopy1963]

I'm having a hard time making this straight-flared driveway cut the curb. Do you have any ideas on how to go about doing it? I tried different ways. Chief only creates curved flares. I did this with a polyline and converted it to a road, but it doesn't cut the curb as expected. Need some help or ideas on how to do it. THX.

[ValleyGuy]

3 hours ago, snoopy1963 said:

Need some help or ideas on how to do it.

 

You could try removing the curbs from the road and converting CAD lines into mouldings. I made mouldings and put them into my library. Mouldings allow you to mess around with the height and widths as well as the offsets. It's fairly easy to have a proper looking driveway entrance. With a little more fiddling around, I'm sure the sloped cutaway could be achieved, maybe a 3D solid??

 

  

 

 

[scottkendall]

On 3/20/2025 at 8:54 AM, snoopy1963 said:

I'm having a hard time making this straight-flared driveway cut the curb. Do you have any ideas on how to go about doing it? I tried different ways. Chief only creates curved flares. I did this with a polyline and converted it to a road, but it doesn't cut the curb as expected. Need some help or ideas on how to do it. THX.

 

 

I would not begin to know what kind of work around you would use in Chief to make it, in most modeling softwares you would use a tool for massing called a sweeping blend.  This kind of tool would allow a solid with two distinct shapes.  Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Fusion 360 (has a free version). Then import into chief.   Attached is a driveway apron with various file types that can be imported into Chief and a few that cannot.   Driveway Apron.zip