Landmark_SIG_080 Special Interest Group October (am) 2015
Main topics: hardscape grade limits grade tool car parking
Main topics: hardscape grade limits grade tool car parking
In this session we looked at the report from the earlier landscape session, but the users pointed out that the previous report only look for flat objects which is not much use on a sloping site. So the session took the report from the early session in tried to update…
In this session we wanted to look at the ability to create reports. In particular, the user wanted to look at how to create a report with areas of hardscapes along with volumes of hardscapes.
Intermediate Tip – Pathway mode – With this mode you are setting the centerline of a path. This mode makes it easy to create paths with a consistent width.
Hardscape Areas – A hardscape object is a polygon-based object that is designed to represent hard landscaping. This object represents a flat area on the site and it can be used to create a three-dimensional object that has thickness, the graphic representation, border areas, and it can also be used as…
Intermediate Tip – With this mode you are setting the overall shape of the Hardscape – the outline of it.
Intermediate Tip – The 3D settings on the hardscape object allow you to create the 3D part of the hardscape where you can choose to create a slab, site modifier or texture bed.
This session looked at the best tool to use when creating planted or landscaped areas: Plant tool, Landscape Area tool, Hardscape tool, or Texture Bed tool and how to edit them (e.g. content, plant types, spacing, as well as visually). Both the Plant and the Landscape Area tool enable plants…
In this session we looked at how to create a Site Model by importing a Shapefile and how to use a Hardscapes as a Site Modifier. We started by importing a Shapefile, simplifying it (Simplify Polys command), editing its crop and importing more Shapefiles to create kerbs and buildings. Shapefiles come…
Intermediate Tip – These settings control the way that the hardscape appears in plan. You can control the main pattern, the border, tag and hardscape name. Most of these settings can be edited on the Object Info palette, but detailed control of the settings is on the Hardscape preferences dialog…