Plot Plan Quandry

[DRyeHD]

I'm attaching a .pln file in hopes that someone can tell me what I've done to not be able to see or manipulate what is inside my terrain perimeter.  Per the screenshot, nothing within my terrain perimeter displays.  The outside black line is my terrain perimeter.  The inside orange line is just a polyline that I'm using as my lot line (is oriented with the north arrow and displays the distance of each line).  I've done many plot plans.  This one has me scratching my head!  Any help is appreciated.

 

@Renerabbitt...tagged as requested.

Lewis4.zip

[Renerabbitt]

1 hour ago, DRyeHD said:

@Renerabbitt...tagged as requested.

Turn auto-build terrain on by opening up your terrain perimeter.
Also while selected in plan view,  convert your closed polyline to a road(perimeter) using the convert tool in the edit toolbar.
Recommend turning your terrain perimeter into a rectangle
see video:
 

Edited Friday at 08:39 PM by Renerabbitt

[DRyeHD]

On 5/29/2026 at 1:59 PM, Renerabbitt said:

Turn auto-build terrain on by opening up your terrain perimeter.
Also while selected in plan view,  convert your closed polyline to a road(perimeter) using the convert tool in the edit toolbar.
Recommend turning your terrain perimeter into a rectangle
see video:
 

 

 

[DRyeHD]

@Renerabbitt thanks for the input.  I learned several things in a short time!  I kept wandering why the terrain feature on my cursor wouldn't go away.  I rebuilt my terrain first and everythng showed up.  I did as you suggedted...turned the road into a road and the drive into a drive.  I also made my terrain perimeter square (I think I had done a consentric resize off of the lot lines).  Everything is looking good.

 

Now I find out out that the city has a 60% to 40% ratio of softscape to hardscape, so I'm going to have to redo the front drive.   Oh well, it does look nice.