topic landscaping in Modeling

landscaping

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 22:22:32 GMT

Where is the survayors data file located ?

Re: landscaping

Barry Kelly — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:20:19 GMT

If you mean an 'xyz' data file that you have received from your surveyor then you can save that anywhere you like.
Then use the 'Place mesh from surveyors data" command and browse to where you saved the file.
Archicad will read the data and create the mesh - you don't need the data file anymore - unless you want to go through the process again.

Barry.

Re: landscaping

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:43:37 GMT

I never open the xyz location , sure this will work.

landscaping

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:36:58 GMT

How do I apply slop and elevation to a landscape design ?

Re: landscaping

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:17:39 GMT

Hi everyone,

we do our site from the surveyor data. But went we do that and we have level let see of 100 feet we are going to have 100 feet of mesh. is there a way to have the right finish level but without thickness of 100. We know that we can display only the top but if we can't only have 8 feet under the top this will be fine.

Any solution will be appreciate

Re: landscaping

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:58:25 GMT

sampson wrote:
How do I apply slop and elevation to a landscape design ?

By using the Mesh tool for your site.

Barry.

Re: landscaping

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 04:09:53 GMT

mhoude wrote:
Hi everyone,

we do our site from the surveyor data. But went we do that and we have level let see of 100 feet we are going to have 100 feet of mesh. is there a way to have the right finish level but without thickness of 100. We know that we can display only the top but if we can't only have 8 feet under the top this will be fine.

Any solution will be appreciate

You should be able to adjust the skirt height and then either set a level for the base (bottom) or simply drag it vertically in 3D or section/elevation to suit our model.

Barry.

Re: landscaping

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:21:35 GMT

Almost perfect , but Morph does a better landscaping than MESH that does not have a CURVE . But where is MORPH thickness and SOLIDITY ?

Re: landscaping

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:50:59 GMT

sampson wrote:
But where is MORPH thickness and SOLIDITY ?

A morph is as thick as you want it to be.
It doesn't have a uniform thickness - you have to create it by extruding or adding surfaces.
A morph can be a simple line, a plane (or series of planes) or a prism (or in fact any combination or all 3).
If it is a prism and all the surfaces (planes) are closed (i.e. it is sealed and there are no empty surfaces) then it is automatically considered solid.

Barry.

Re: landscaping

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:51:12 GMT

Hello Barry,

We did that and it still keeping the surveyor data level. We did try 0 to see what happen and it didn't do anything it is just keeping the height.

Re: landscaping

Barry Kelly — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 01:49:52 GMT

mhoude wrote:
We did that and it still keeping the surveyor data level. We did try 0 to see what happen and it didn't do anything it is just keeping the height.

If the 'Z' heights for all you mesh nodes are 100+ feet then to reduce the 100 foot skirt you will need to set the skirt height to a negative value - say -90 to make the skirt around 10 feet high.
Then drag the mesh (as a whole element) to the correct level in elevation (if it is not in the position that you want) - this will probably change the base level to a negative value as well.

The height of the skirt is measured from the base level of the mesh but a positive figure goes down which I think leads to confusion.
The individual top surface node heights are also measured from the base level but positive figures go up (opposite to the skirt).
The base level can be set to what ever you want which is why I just drag the mesh in section to the correct position.

Barry.

Re: landscaping

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 04:54:07 GMT

For the height I use mesh and morph for the slope , and I am having a smooth ride so far.