Elevation with overhanging roof.

[Anonymous]

I'm having trouble with placing my elevation line. My building has a projecting roof so I moved my elevation marker back to accommodate for it. But the mesh rises in front of the building so the bottom of the elevation is hidden by the cut in the landscape. How can I solve this so that I can have correct ground level at the base of the building and a view of the whole building?

[Anonymous]

The way I have dealt with this in the past is to turn the ground mesh off for that particular elevation.

If you want you can move the elevation line to the building face, and with the ground mesh ON select the mesh and copy to clipboard, then move the elevation line back away from the building, turn the mesh layer off (using a specific layer combination) and paste your mesh as 2D lines / fills onto your elevated view.

[Anonymous]

Great! Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

I have a follow-up question. Is there a way to make the mesh display the cut line only so as not to have all the mesh lines in the background?

Very good choice of football club by the way!

[Anonymous]

atelier wrote:
I have a follow-up question. Is there a way to make the mesh display the cut line only so as not to have all the mesh lines in the background?

If you're talking about when you are looking toward the rising mesh surface, the only lines I have showing up are the contours, and that is with either "Show all ridges" or "Show user defined ridges" selected in the mesh tool. I can live with them. (apologies for fuzzy image, had to keep reducing size to meet forum requirements)

atelier wrote:
Very good choice of football club by the way!

That was me and my family celebrating after the FA Cup final win in 2006. Not a lot to celebrate since then, unfortunately, but once a red, always a red.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your help. I'll work out what looks best using those tools.