J. Wallace

It looks okay when viewed with open GL.

New day... new challenge. I have a site model which I applied a texture to(half dead grass). It was looking good up until this morning when some strange distortions occurred. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks Ray I do import .dwg files from other consultants. I will keep this in mind.

Thank you Peter... I abandoned the shapes and went with the walls and roof. Easy and quick to edit, thanks!!!

Thanks for your advice... I will start over and move forward... by the way the auto working plane decided to start. I'm going to leave this alone for now.

I understood that the method I was using was a quick and easy way to build a concept building within a landscape. You are saying that this is not the case and I should start over..... yikes.

Hello I am part way through a site model thanks to previous help on this forum. I created a concept building using extrudes and the shell solid tool, this way I cut out windows and doors. Initially I had a challenge getting the working plane to shift to automatic in order to work the various sides of the building. That got sorted out and worked out well. Now our client has requested a few man doors which I'm trying to create using the rectangle tool which I push/pull and subtract. Well the working plane shifts to auto but nothing is selected on the building. No layers or classes changed. I can even go back to an earlier file and get the working plane to shift into auto. I copy paste the older bulding version into my current drawing and the same issue occurs. The working plane is stuck on the ground (it states its in auto mode) and will not allow me to work on the building. Any help would be appreciated.

Great information thank you everyone. I ended up installing the wall w/retaining wall site modifier and it worked well. The trick, as mentioned, seems to be separating this modifier from any other pad. Now I have to edit the wall location which is easy, the hard part seems to be moving the site modifier. Any ideas on how one moves the footprint of this as the wall moves independent to the modifier.

Thanks for that... Just to clarify, you make a pad for the wall first, and in doing so make this nearly vertical. Not sure how I would make this nearly vertical? I already have a pad for the parking and structure already, can I leave this and place the wall pad next to it? If I do the model contours are already heading down to the base of this. Does that make sense?

Hello I have made a site model, placed a large pad to accommodate a building and parking area. Everything looks great... now I have to add the retaining walls which will make all of this possible. They vary from 2-5m high. If I place a wall (12"poured in place) and create a retaining wall site modifier from this it places the modifier on top of the pad which borders the site. Question is how I get the proposed contour lines and model to run into the back of the retaining wall rather than terminate on the pad below? I started moving the pad inside the retaining wall modifer but this does not seem to yield the correct results. If I knew how to attach an image here I would.

Thanks Benson... that works very well.

Hello Hoping someone can answer this question. I'm building a site model with plants, a warehouse and other 2d/3d items. Pad and some texture bed are in place and behaving. Can I keep the buildings and plants in another layer and have them appear in the model? It appears the align layer command helps with this, but does not help if one is using the flyover tool. Thanks in advance

Thank you so much... back on track.

Thanks to both of you. Great info. Here is an image of what I'm dealing with now. Texture bed sits on the pad but punches a hole in it and then has no file or texture? http://jaandesigns.ca/page/example

Thanks Tamsin... That did the trick. If I can't texture a pad do you have a suggestion how I can add a asphalt parking are to this? 3d polgon?

Hello I am having some challenges with a DTM. The model was created and a pad w/retaining edge added and massing model placed onto it. All is great... First I have tried to add a texture to the pad without sucess. I can texture the model no problem. Tried to add a texture bed to display asphalt road and parking. Attached is a small texture bed I added. It punches a hole in the model and then sits well above. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I will try that Art, thanks...

FYI The civil engineer sent me a R14 type file which worked.

Hi Just wondering what everyone uses/does to tweak there design sheets. My question stems from elevation drawings we will provide to commercial clients. We drop in the architects elevation and add some side views of plant images, vehicles, people etc. It seems to me that some additional work could be done with an illustrator type software that would enhance some surfaces like asphalt or lawn. I look forward to some feedback, thanks.

I am using Landmark 2011 sp5. In the middle of a project. I have imported several .dwg files,from the civil firm, during the past few months without any problem. The final site plan just arrived and it will not import. I select the file to import and I get the spinning wheel of death. Tried another computer in the office same thing. The file in question was exported from Autocad 2011 and has been resent in 2007 and 2000 versions. All behave the same. I have also tried the same file in a .dxf format with similar results. Any help would be appreciated...

Thank you very much Tamsin... that fix it.

Occasionally I get some strange behavior while placing plant symbols. I go to place a symbol and it ends offsetting itself from the desired spot. Not all symbols do this, and the offset is different from symbol to symbol. Any ideas???

I have encountered the same behavior. I have not sorted this out yet and would welcome some advice.

Thanks That was a huge help, and a very simple fix.

How would you like me to send this, it's about 6mb