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Thanks @Katarina Ollikainen! That worked The 2D Style is named 2D Contours (colored elevation). Is there a way to display the contours as lines, in addition to the colored analysis? Like this, where I have put the snapshot under the site model

OK. Sent by email By the way. Tried to make a snapshot from this model in order to save an "easy access colored elevation". In Multipane view the snapshot turns into a 2D-object

I'm trying to display my Site Model with the Colored elevation both in 2D- and 3D-Style. The 3D Style is working fine, but the 2D style is not correct. The colors are not correct and the contours are not displayed. I've tried different colors and grays, but the 2D Style is not following the wanted outcome. Any clues?

Is your 3D poly on the class Site-DTM-Modifier? The "magic class"... Another approach would be to draw the pathway as a site modifier, or simply use the object you already have created as a pathway, an ...Create Objects from Shape. Using the Site Modifier > Path -mode. Then you can play around with the longitudinal profile to make it follow the correct elevations

You could try to draw the 3D poly between the Stake objects as well. And maybe turn on the triangels for the Site Model in your 2D Display, to check the triangulation of the model. You may need to add modifiers in order to force the triangulation, and thereby the contours, to do what you want them to do

Glad that it helped! We use Simplification tolerance between 0,01 and 0,025 for most of our projects, depending on the need for accuracy in the specific project. This also applies to Site Modifiers and Hardscapes 🙂

Hi Have you tried to adjust the simplification tolerance to anything higher than 0? For example 0,01. It can make a big differance in the complexety of the LA, especially for the shape you have with no straight lines. The triangulation of the LA must be very dense and complex. I can greatly affect the filesize as well. And stability for the file.

I have a hardscape that is not showing the fill of the 3D components. The hardscape is in Draped configuration. If I change the hardscape to Planar Pad configuration, the hardscape is displayed correctly in the section view. However, the elevation of the hardscape is no longer correct. We do all our modeling based on creating a Site Model from Site Modifiers and then to drape the Harscape on top of the Site Model, so we would like to ceep the workflow like that...

Hi I'm trying the Grid Line tool, but it will not accept the letters I and O. I got to H, but then the next grid line jumped to J. When i try to type in the letter I in OIP, the error message is: "You have entered a label value that is not incrementable". Small caption letter "i" is OK. FIne! So I go on again until i reach "O". Same thing happens. After N it jumps to P. In this case both O and o is rejected...! Is there a way around this?

I don’t know about a Site modifier that can do that. A suggestion: - create the modifier that has the correct cut. It will reult in both cut & fill. - Make the Site Model display Cut & Fill. The standard setting will show cut as red and fill as blue. - in Top view, draw a Polyline across the parking lot along the border between the cut & fill (red & blue). Follow the fill around the parking lot. - use the polyline to modify the border your Site Modifier (clip) - convert the polyline to a Grade Limit (create objects from shape), and this area of the parking lot will follow the existing slope - update Site model

Good idea. The check-button for Cut the site model can also be used as a refresh-button for Hardscapes. On/off or off/on. A few less clicks 🙂

That is a good approach @aage.langedrag! In this case, the volume I extracted from the hardscape was the calculated volume underneath the hardscape. The cut and fill to prepare the site. Before the hardscape-layers are layed out. So I needed theese parameters from the hardscape calculations :)

Thanks Pat. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my formula before I took a look at your file. When I opened your file the formula in column E looks like this: =VALUE(SUBSTRING(C4; ' '; 1)). My formula in column D looks like this: =VALUE(SubString (C4,' cu m', 1)). So the seperator inside the formul is ';' (semikolon) and not ',' (comma). As i turns out, column D works fine when replacing the , with a ; . Even without changing the delimiter from ' cu m' to ' '. Both formulas works. I dont understand it, but it works... It looks like the help-text is using commas, so not very helpful there either. It would be nice if the actual volumes that are taken out of the site model inside VW Landmark could be used in calculations directly, @Scott Campbell and @Katarina Ollikainen. It's not records from an outside plug-in, but within Vectorworks. In my view this should be records that can be drawn directly from the model and summed up without having to solve it like this...

Sorry about late response to this. I got caught up in other issues for a while... I tried your fix, only usin a space in the delimiter, bit it didn't work for me. Can you post back the file with your fixec formula, or post the formula here?

Thanks a lot, Pat! I was really excited at first when I created the worksheet and was able to extract the cut volume and the fill volume from Hardscapes into a Worksheet. But when I tried to summarize the columns I ran in to the problem with the numbers being text-strings. I tried to format the cells to a number format but it didn't help. That led me to the forum and to this thread. I have also tried to read the other threads related to this, but as you can see, I am not familiar with formulas and strings 🙂 I have posted a file with a few hardscapes and the worksheet Worksheet - Cut and Fill Hardscapes.vwx