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Vectorworks Tip 280 – Site Modeling – Recession Planes

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image001If you going to create recession planes for your site model so that you can see the restrictions on your site in 3-D, make sure you place stake objects at the point where the surveyor has taken on the measurements. This will improve the reliability and accuracy of your recession planes.

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