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Creating a Site Plan

Bill
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I'm getting in to my first project with ArchiCAD, and would like to set up a site plan.

I have a mesh of the terrain set on the ground floor. I understand the concept of different layer combinations to toggle back and forth between the floor plan and site plan layer sets while on the ground floor in the Project Map; however, I do not understand how to set up a separate Site Plan in the View Map. It seems to me that each of the plans shown in the Drafting Plans, Presentation Plans and Floor Plans folders corresponds to a specific story - am I to set up a "copy" somehow of the ground floor plan that can be set to the site plan layer combination, or am I supposed to be doing something else?

Secondly, once I have the Site Plan set up, how do I have the mesh not show the triangulations, but simply the ridge lines of the specific contour elevations?

Thanks
Bill Szustak RA

Principal, Springboard Design

ArchiCAD 25, macOS Ventura 13.4.1
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Andy Thomson
Advisor
Djordje wrote:
Around here, a lot of them.
How are they planning to power all of those needles in 50 years?
Andy Thomson, M.Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Director
Thomson Architecture, Inc.
Instructor/Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science
AC26/iMacPro/MPB Silicon M2Pro
Djordje
Virtuoso
andyro wrote:
Djordje wrote:
Around here, a lot of them.
How are they planning to power all of those needles in 50 years?
Try 50 weeks ...

For some reason, the generator rental companies are flocking here ... wonder why?
Djordje



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