ladycoralie Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 G'Day. I'm experiencing problems trying to build a terrain for my plan. It is on a gently sloping block, but the only part that slopes is the back right corner, underneath the great room and the walk out basement. The rest of the back yard is mostly flat with a slight dip down to the walk out basement and the front of the block is flat. I have tried all sorts of different ways in setting elevation lines but can't get just this corner to slope down. Can anyone help me with this problem please? Thanks. Here is the link. https://onedrive.liv...433C5FEBEB7!108 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 First off, I would open the Terrain Specification dbx and uncheck Automatic for the Pad Elevation. Enter zero for pad elevation. Now all your terrain data will relate to the zero or upper floor level. (let me know if you have real world elevation data and I would suggest something else). I would then use Elevation Regions to locate all the flat areas. Follow this up with Elevation Lines to shape the rest of the terrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution HumbleChief Posted April 12, 2015 Solution Share Posted April 12, 2015 Pretty long and even includes a Chief crash but hope it helps. http://www.screencast.com/t/3Ek3wjToLptQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Larry, Thanks! That was a great video even with the crash.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chief58 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Larry great video I don't usually do terrain but with your explanation I just might give it a shot, and of course Glenn and Scott for showing you so you could show us :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hope it helps Greg and oh man Ray, if you only knew the pain terrains have caused me. I really have no idea how that worked for that plan but doing the videos is a great way to learn stuff and just recently I had a plan that a fairly complicated actually came out OK and I've learned anything short of the elevation regions will make you (and the OP I'm thinkin') nuts as you probably know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladycoralie Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Pretty long and even includes a Chief crash but hope it helps. http://www.screencast.com/t/3Ek3wjToLptQ I would love to watch this video - It looks great - but when I hit the play button, nothing happens. Any ideas on how to make it work? thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladycoralie Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hi HumbleChief! I downloaded the video with an extension, and yes, that is how you say my name. Beauty! Okay. Looks great. I will give it a go and let you know how it turns out. Thanks again. cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladycoralie Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hey HumbleChief! It worked!!!!Yay! Thankyou so much for that video. After several tries i finally got it. I didn't know what terrain regions were and so I fooled around with them as you showed and voila! Here's the link: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C06FB433C5FEBEB7%21110 Believe it or not I had to rename it as I deleted the old plan and OneDrive wouldn't let me upload it - telling me it was an empty file?????? solution was to rename it. Thanks again. I'm new to all of this. I'm not an architect, I'm just trying to design a house for my sister and I. This will be our first home and we are going to show some designs to our builder in an attempt to cut down on some costs and also let him know what we have in mind. Besides that, it is a lot of fun designing, but I'm having a lot of teething problems as I am entirely self taught and haven't got a clue what I'm doing and am learning the program as I go. I'm sure our builder will set me straight. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, and especially a big thanks to HumbleChief for that awesome video! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Sure did Larry, and I know what a pain in the A$$ terrains can be...and the only thing that would give me hard time. . But this was the best terrain video I've seen and I tried doing same on a few plans I had laying around and it was a breeze. Thanks again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainewood Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Thanks for taking time to make the video. I have saved it for future reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hey HumbleChief! It worked!!!!Yay! Thankyou so much for that video. After several tries i finally got it. I didn't know what terrain regions were and so I fooled around with them as you showed and voila! Here's the link: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C06FB433C5FEBEB7%21110 Believe it or not I had to rename it as I deleted the old plan and OneDrive wouldn't let me upload it - telling me it was an empty file?????? solution was to rename it. Thanks again. I'm new to all of this. I'm not an architect, I'm just trying to design a house for my sister and I. This will be our first home and we are going to show some designs to our builder in an attempt to cut down on some costs and also let him know what we have in mind. Besides that, it is a lot of fun designing, but I'm having a lot of teething problems as I am entirely self taught and haven't got a clue what I'm doing and am learning the program as I go. I'm sure our builder will set me straight. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, and especially a big thanks to HumbleChief for that awesome video! Cheers! Nice job/ Looks perfect. And remember those numbers I chose were pretty arbitrary, if you want to raise/lower the terrain just add/subtract from the elevations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladycoralie Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Nice job/ Looks perfect. And remember those numbers I chose were pretty arbitrary, if you want to raise/lower the terrain just add/subtract from the elevations. Thanks mate. That video was a great help. I am keeping it for future reference. Cheers Mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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