{"id":700,"date":"2012-08-06T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=700"},"modified":"2012-08-08T08:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T08:38:02","slug":"modelling-utility-networks-in-cityengine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Modelling Utility Networks in CityEngine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Updated 08\/08\/2012 : New image added this time with large Pylons and 4 cables<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a quick note, I&#8217;ll post an example rule file later&#8230; basically you can model utility networks like electricity cables and pylons by using a graph network and instead of modelling a street with trees and lamps you model cables and pylons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_neighbourhood_3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-704  \" title=\"Large Pylons modelled using a Graph Network\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_neighbourhood_3.jpg?resize=645%2C406\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_neighbourhood_3.jpg?resize=1024%2C644&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_neighbourhood_3.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_neighbourhood_3.jpg?w=1069&amp;ssl=1 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Pylons modelled using a Graph Network (added to post 08\/08\/2012)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_2012_1_new-version3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-701\" title=\"cityengine_2012_1_new version3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_2012_1_new-version3.jpg?resize=645%2C391\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_2012_1_new-version3.jpg?resize=1024%2C620&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_2012_1_new-version3.jpg?resize=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_2012_1_new-version3.jpg?w=1757&amp;ssl=1 1757w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cityengine_2012_1_new-version3.jpg?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this example I&#8217;ve made sure the graph\/street segment &#8216;y&#8217; vertices are at a height of 12m (or whatever you like). \u00a0Then I&#8217;ve placed a pylon every 20 metres, which are offset down by 10m (so they sit on the ground and the cable rests on their arms). \u00a0 Then at the same time drawn a simple black box down the centre line of the graph. \u00a0 It&#8217;s crude I know but the results look quite good I think.<\/p>\n<p>You could use this technique for anything, for example pipes\/ducting underground. \u00a0 Has anyone tried a road tunnel I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 08\/08\/2012 : New image added this time with large Pylons and 4 cables Just a quick note, I&#8217;ll post an example rule file later&#8230; basically you can model utility networks like electricity cables and pylons by using a graph network and instead of modelling a street with trees and lamps you model cables and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,116,145,25,54,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arcgis","category-arcmap","category-city-creation","category-cityengine","category-planning","category-tips","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}