paul,
for starters you can draw your site plan while in the first floor drawing or in the floor plan that will penetrate the topography
which could be your foundation plan or basement / remember you draw the site plan in "site mode"
but
you also want to do a "building outline" while you still have a floor plan in there and than do a
file / save as for the site plan.
NOTE: you want the SITE PLAN to be "IT'S OWN DRAWING"
than you can erase everything in the site plan drawing except
the building outline and site and anything that you drew in on the site mode. (btw, draw in site mode features
when the site plan is it's own drawing)
TIP: best to read up on drawing a SITE PLAN in either the "HELP" / at TOP right in softplan application
tip: if you want to put a terrain in (topography) after you draw the site polygon (it'll become shaded if it's a
complete site polygon > this is important)
now the first thing to do after you have the site polygon is to put the grade elevations in on the "CORNERS" of the polygon.
without doing this, you can't develop the terrain / topography.
now it's a matter of reading and practice - practice - practice and asking a LOT of questions.
note: go to the "start page" of 2016 plus and there are instructional videos on site on the page
or
go to splash and do a search for site
or
go to softplantuts.com and search there.
in terrain below, you can smooth it out more than is showing.
depends on how much time you want to spend on it.
I don't have much patience.
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note: snow on the roof is with a snow texture on the shingles or maybe I
UN-displayed the shingles and put it on the sheathing.
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lake on tope / waterfall / surrounding river