Josh wrote:
Maybe David H might want to tackle it as his next Macro after he wraps on Spaces?
and then Alan wrote:
When I discussed it with Dave G. he didn't feel like it would be too tough to create ... Hopefully one of the Dave's will respond!!
ok, I'll bite ... but I have a couple other things that I am planning to do in the next several months, so wouldn't be looking at this for quite a while in any event.
The project does interest me. I'm not familiar with either AutoTURN or BricsTURN (nor with any other such software), but I'm assuming that a diagram of the actual swept vehicle envelope is the required output, and that this could be produced for various standard vehicle types (or would there be a need to allow you to design your own vehicle?)
It seems to me that there are a lot of variables that would need to be taken into account ... things that come to mind are not only the turning circle of each vehicle, but also its size and articulation characteristics, speed (and also speed at which the driver will turn the steering wheel unless we assume that he stops at the start of the turn and then turns the wheels to the required angle before proceeding again), the vehicle overhang in front of and behind wheels as well as to the side ... Maybe I'm over-complicating it, but I perceive it as being quite a complex bit of work!
I will plan to look into this further in due course, so if anybody would like to have input into the way such a macro would be designed I would be pleased enough to hear from you so that I have some basic requirements if I do get to the stage of trying to implement something along these lines.
Regards,
David H.