I always have difficuly working with Chief's Terrain Tools. Driveway and Swale Desired

[KnotSquare]

I always have difficulty with terrain tools in Chief. I want a sloping driveway to the diagonal yellow lines crossing corner to corner in the driveway midway between the Barn and Garage  from each location with a SMOOTH swale between the buildings at the 45 degree angle.

 

At this time, while putting the final touches on the house, mainly setting elevations all around at this time in elevation, I am working with a small "Mini Terrain Perimeter" as the property slows this model down significantly. I will likely copy the plan when done and have a separate model with the full terrain.

 

For now, I just want to understand how to get the results I am after.

 

In the plan view included, the Magenta Topo Lines are in an AutoCAD as well as the shaded driveway that extends beyond the Mini Terrain Perimeter. The terrain I am working with shows up as Green in the image. The brown line is in AutoCAD and will be the compacted road base commonly used around this area for the long and circular driveway once I bring in the full property perimeter. I am not so much concerned about this at this time and just want to know how to work out these minor issues for now.

 

I created two shapes and then converted them to Raised Areas, the left side 6" higher than the right side. I do not know how to smooth this out first of all, but secondly, this unexpected result would work well as the swale in the larger model if I could figure out how to smooth it out.

 

I am looking to understand how to connect two raised areas such that then smoothly transition as a slope and how to create a shallower and smoother swale. Lastly, how to transition smoothly into the Garage entrances themselves.

 

Assistance much appreciated.

 

I can see if I can reduce the model down to the basics to attach here if anyone needs a copy. Just let me know.

 

Mark

[KnotSquare]

I got rid of everything but the roof and exterior walls. I left on the CAD overlay of the site on the AUTOCAD SITE layer.

Peck Final CDs (Reduced 4-4-24).zip

[Mark3D]

See if that give you some clues to get you moving in the right direction.

I edited this post and added a file with drain

 

Peck Final CDs (Reduced 4-4-24)MB.plan

[KnotSquare]

Hey Mark,

 

Long time. Hope all is well out there. Must be nice to live in a land where you don't have the types of choices we have coming up.

 

I was unaware that I could just add elevation lines that started and stopped within a drive that would have such a decent result.

 

I moved your swale over to where I have the 2, hard to see, yellow lines that run inside corner to the inside corner and adjusted it to be gentle. It does not want to work there at all,let alone allow me to make it smaller. Is this why you placed it on the opposite side of the property>

 

Thanks again,

 

Mark

[Mark3D]

See if that is what you are looking for.

 

Peck Final CDs (Reduced 4-4-24)MB.plan

Edited April 5 by Mark3D
Update file

[para-CAD]

Terrain video today

 

 

[KnotSquare]

Gorgeous Mark. Just a darn line. Elegant and simple, thank you again.

 

Mark

 

para-CAD,

 

Seeing Rabbit on this video makes it a must watch. He has a lot of tricks. This will be saved and viewed once spring has come and went in Montana.

 

Mark

[Doug_N]

John is the hero of this particular video toward the midpoint.  He has some very useful techniques for massaging the terrain elevation controls for achieving some pretty remarkable results.  Rene was talking about removing this video after a few days, but I sincerely hope that he doesn't or that someone at CA does an instructive video that covers some of these issues.