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Originally Posted by JoestForEver
Thanks for comment pal. I had quite a lot of trouble trying to create elevation and I had to give up on that. After I draw a hill, I cannot color the track without painting all sections of the hill into the same color.
Also do you know how to draw armco/hard barriers around the track in Sketchup?  |
Ok, regarding walls:
1. Draw a line where you'd like the wall/barrier to go (around gravel or tarmac runoff, Pitwall etc.) using the line or arc tool.
2. select the whole line (so it's all blue).
3. Select the offset tool, click the line, and move the cursor either side of the line. Type your desired wall thickness (I use 0.3 meters) and hit enter.
4. Join up either end of the lines to create the wall outline. Paint the shape.
5. Use the push/pull tool to extrude the wall upwards (I use 1.3 meters).
It is an annoying long-winded process, and can be quite time consuming. But I still enjoy designing the barriers as part of the overall circuit design.
It took me years before I even attempted hills, and even then it didn't turn out very well!