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Battering a driveway edge?

Anonymous
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I have a driveway cut into a hillside and would like to batter the edges, the batter is only about a meter deep, so a 1.5 meter wide batter would do. The slope of the drive coming down the hill is about 15deg. The hillside is a mesh and the drive is a roof slab.
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Anonymous
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You could add points to the mesh and modify their elevations, or use another roof above your driveway, on a layer that is normally turned off, with sloping sides (angled fascia) and use Solid Element Operation subtraction.
A screen shot of what you are trying to achieve might be handy to help understand what you are after.

Hope this helps.
Anonymous
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Thanks for that the fascia will do the trick nicely.
__archiben
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there's always the excellent 'archiTerra' from cigraph. if that's a typical aspect of your project work it may be a worthwhile investment. it'll automatically create the cuttings and embankments when you place a 'road' onto an archiTerra terrain . . . and more.

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Anonymous
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Thanks Ben
I have been looking into that today, as link also suggested that Archi-terra was the way to go.