Those that have been trying out the new Labs tool for exporting your Civil 3D corridors to solids have noticed that what we export are in the form of a solid body rather than an actual 3D solid object in this release.
However I was talking to one of our top experts in the Benelux area, Cristian Otter of Breijn who mentioned to me if you export to a .SAT file and then import that file back into AutoCAD it will convert those 3D bodies to 3D solids.
I am sure there are other ways also, but this was quick and easy.
Why you want to convert? We have users wanting to merge solids together and do other creative ideas.
Give it a try
http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/civil3d_corridor_solids/
Jack Strongitharm
Great tool! Twin 4km tunnels, nominal assembly using mirrored closed polylines created from the ‘create subassembly from polyline’ tool, a quick SAT export\import, and bam… 3D Solid Tunnels.
Nice one!
Take care with the detail though: My initial corridor had assembly with about 120 nodes, frequency 40 straight/10m curves – yielded a 260MB SAT and a 80MB solid drawing, whereas dropping to about 70 nodes and freq 50/20 brought that down to an 80MB SAT and 20MB solid; much more manageable.