How do I get a height on a site model

[unearthed]

In other software - QGIS, Sketchup etc. - there are handy tools when one just needs to know a spot height for a particular place. Does VW have that?, or via  plugin that works in 2018?

[E|FA]

I seem to remember from a Coffee Break webinar that you can use a Data Tag to do that.

[twk]

You use the stake tool, and set the parameters accordingly.
(Mode=Set eleve to site model)

[Benson Shaw]

Drop a stake … doh! @twk said it first. Adding that Send To Surface might be needed. For me anyway sometime the stake snaps to layer plane. 
 

-B

[Christiaan]

You can also add a 3D loci

[unearthed]

Thanks twk and Benson, that works .. most of the time, and sometimes drops thru. to Layer Plane, as do 3D loci sometimes.

 

E|FA That sounds ideal but I've never Data tags and it looks quite a mission to set up.

 

 

[Jonathan Pickup]

@twk and @Benson Shaw are using the technique I use .

 

in 2026 the sake object can also give you a spot elevation to an object.