Terrain/Grade Lines in Elevations

[SHCanada2]

after fiddling with terrain on elevations, and on my last job actually had to draw a line in because it looked like this:

 

I finally decided once and for all to implement a terrain feature that is really slim, in my template plan, to allow control of the grade showing in layout without having to move the camera and fiddle around

 

I have four of these elevation features, one for each elevation. This is the downside, it means a separate layer set for each elevation, but because I have these elevation already in my template layout, its not that big of a deal, as I changed them there as well:

 

Layer sets in plan:

 

 

then in my template layout I have, for example, for my left elevation layout box:

 

and the layerset has for the above:

 

Note the "terrain perimeter" is off. That is on purpose in order to not show the terrain, but to show the terrain feature slice instead.

 

The terrain feature on the plan is shown below (4 of them, one for each elevation)

 

Each is assigned a different layer (I used "Terrain Featureslice bottom PL", ..top to PL, etc. I named them PL erroneously as I copied these from another plan where I had to provide grade at PL)

 

The thickness(which is actually how deep the terrain feature is below the top of the terrain) is that large of a number so the bottom of this feature is well below the bottom of a basement.

 

You can then move them to wherever you would like on the plan for the grade to show on the elevation.

 

The elevation on layout using the layer "terrain perimeter" (normal method):

 

The elevation on layout using the terrain feature and the terrain perimeter layer turned off 

 

A much cleaner look.