topic Re: Automatically apply different rules to roads and sidewalks in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Automatically apply different rules to roads and sidewalks

ThibaultThibault1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:06:28 GMT

Hi,

I have a CGA file named "street.cga" with 2 rules :

@StartRule
Road --> ...

@StartRule
Sidewalk --> ...

I imported polyline shapes from a file GDB representing my streets.

In my Streetnetwork , in one shape, I manually select the road (the middle part) and apply the "street.cga" rule and assign the "Road" starting rule. I manually select both sidewalks (both part on the road side) and I apply the "street.cga" rule and assign the starting rule "Sidewalk".

I have the expected result for one shape of my Streetnetwork. But I have 600 shapes and I would like to find a way to automatically select the road or the sidewalk and apply the related starting rule.

I can't figure out how to do this automatically.

I have tried with split and comp, but without success.

Do you have any idea how to do this ?

Thank you.

Re: Automatically apply different rules to roads and sidewalks

MatthiasBuehler1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:24:15 GMT

Hi !

Why are you using 'Road' and not the default which is 'Street' ?

Street and Sidewalk are the default Start Rules which are set by CityEngine. So if you have according start rules in your code, then everything works automatically.

Of course you can override those defaults, but it just makes your life harder.

-->

1] create your street shapes
2] select 1 shape > RMB click > select shapes in same layer
3] drag and drop rule on those selected shapes
4] done.

Note that drag-n-drop automatically triggers the model generation if the @StartRule annotations are well-defined.

ok ?

Re: Automatically apply different rules to roads and sidewalks

ThibaultThibault1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:27:32 GMT

Thanks Matthias,

It works as you described it.

In my case I had to :

Select all shapes in my Streetnetwork

In the Cityengine main menu, click "Graph"

Select "Reset Shape Attributes"

I have tried with a fresh new import from a file GDB and your scenario works well.
For other begginers like me, may I had one step in between steps 3 and 4 :

On the "Set Start Rule" window, choose "Skip"

The help page about this topic.

After setting the rules properly, I guess for the generation to be error free, all the default start rules must be defined :

Street

Sidewalk

Crossing

Junction

JunctionEntry

Thibault

Re: Automatically apply different rules to roads and sidewalks

MatthiasBuehler1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:30:05 GMT

correct. 🙂

m.