Terrain back to flat

[gboheman]

So I input a wrong height on my terrain slope and it shows up in my building.  How do I either change the height to a lower number or start back at zero.

Thanks
Greg

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Greg,

If you drag the mouse over the Terrain you will see an arrow that represents your original draw of the Slope. Select this and right click and you can then select Properties and change the height or you can delete it and start again.

In Settings / Program Settings you can also select the Location (defaults to Ground Floor) which will cut the Terrain out of the inside of the building.

Allan

[gboheman]

Okay, so I had the terrain thing all figured out then I dont know what I did but I had to set the height at 1' instead of the 10' I had it at because something happened and made it show up to almost the top of the wall when it was set at 10'

Also on the rooms there are 3 of them that show a blue line around the perimeter, what does that signify?


Thanks Greg

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Greg,

You actually have two slopes inserted in the same place one is 12' and the other 1'. Because they add to each other you actually have 13'. You should delete one and set the other to the slope you actually want.

The only blue lines I can see in some rooms are the floors. There is a problem here however. Some rooms have many floors! You should switch to 2D Designers View (so you can see and select the floors) and delete all the extra ones - just click in each room  and delete until it goes white in that room. Then insert the floor you want. You will have to do it to all the rooms as many have extra floors. They will cause problems later. They could corrupt the whole model causing it to crash and at the very least will cause funny patters in the floor where two textures are 'fighting each other' to show.

You can see the multiple floors in the image below. The one on the left has four floors and the one on the right has seven. It looks as though you are adding new floors instead of just changing the texture on the original floor if you want a different finish.

Allan

[gboheman]

Thanks Allan

I am working through changing the floors but noticed when I went to framing view and looked from a lower level to the floor above that the floor joists are broken up.  There are gaps where the upper walls sit down on them.

Wouldn't the floor be a continuous floor and then you change the floor covering?

Thanks

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Greg,

Wouldn't the floor be a continuous floor and then you change the floor covering?

Yes and you can do that if you have Auto Floors turned on BEFORE you draw the walls It will put a continuous framed floor throughout. You can then select the rooms in 2D Designer's View and change the textures individually. If you insert a "Perimeter" or "Picking Points" floor later you can only change the whole floor surface. If you delete all floors and insert each "by room", you can of course change the textures of the surface but the floor is inserted between the walls. However, in 2D Designer's View, you can select the individual floors, right click and select Move Edge and you can then move the edges of each side of a floor so that they join in the middle of the walls. The framing will move accordingly and butt up to that in the adjoining floor.

Allan