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Elevation view on a hill with mesh

sknsnw9 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:59:13 GMT

Most of my projects has been on relative flat land and / or slight slope. This is one of my first project that will be built on a hill. How do you guys deal with marker line that has been split so I can show more of the elevation view on the lower part of the hill. Yet there's a sharp lines where I highlighted on the attached image. Do you just hide the mesh and use fill and make your own "slope" or any tips on how to make this look better?

Operating system used: Windows 10

Re: Elevation view on a hill with mesh

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:25:34 GMT

@sknsnw9 wrote:

Do you just hide the mesh and use fill and make your own "slope" or any tips on how to make this look better?

In a word, yes.

I would hide the mesh in elevation view and add a 2D fill to represent the ground level as you want to see it.

If you do that you probably won't even need to stagger the section line.

Barry.

Re: Elevation view on a hill with mesh

sknsnw9 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:46:06 GMT

Thanks Barry. I was wondering if this was the best solution and that there aren't any other tricks that I didn't think of.

Re: Elevation view on a hill with mesh

Barry Kelly — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:14:54 GMT

It is not so bad when your section is looking up the hill to the building.

But looking downhill, unfortunately you will see the mesh in front of the building.

So you have to cut the section as close to the building walls as you can, but this is not always practical as you may have roof overhangs, so you have to step back a bit.

The further you step back, the more mesh you will see.

So I just add the section further back, turn the mesh off and add a fill for the ground.

Barry.

Re: Elevation view on a hill with mesh

Lingwisyer — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:43:59 GMT

I have done a lot of things on very steep slopes and manually doing the ground plane is the only practical option. It is also easier to manually draw roads and other accessways without needing to spend excessive hours trying to perfectly grade the site and cut in features...

Ling.

Re: Elevation view on a hill with mesh

BrunoH — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:21:24 GMT

Hi sknsnw9,

You can also create 2 views, one with the cut line for your project elevation where you hide the mesh, the other from a zero depth section where you display only the mesh cut where you want it. Place the 2 views on the layout the mesh drawing over the elevation one. When working you can display the cut mesh view as a trace.