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[Sam Morgan]

I'm working on a lot of projects lately where we are on steep hillsides and are required to have a surveyor provide full topo of the property for permits.  I decided after this many years its time to start learning how to do a site in softplan using that info and show clients how their home will look on the site.  (I started on V13 around 2006, so its about time!)

 

I'm working on one today where I can't get the home to lower into the ground....its floating 50 feet in the air!  I have the site with building outline in the model stack and I can see the cut area of the building outline that I have set the offset on.  I can raise and lower that and see the depth of that cut change, but the building itself will not move.  I started with the site and "copy"/"paste, hold position" onto all of my drawings thinking that would solve the issue.  I have a ticket in to support but too impatient to wait!  Anyone have any ideas?

 

 

Sam

[Jim Johnson]

Do you have the round reference circle on your site plan?

 

or

 

In your site options, do you have the box for "Building Position" checked?

[Martin Livingston]

Once I create the Building Outline and the property lines I add shot points to set the elevations determined by the surveyors. I find it is a whole lot easier to set the points a few inches to a foot from the property outline so that I don't have to keep assigning the elevation to either the building or the property. Once they are all set I move the ones for the grades at the building outline over to touch that line. Rather than using the grades referenced to a benchmark I set all the elevations as referenced from the basement floor.

 

I create a 3D site plan for every project this way.

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[Yvon Gonthier]

Two things to look at;

1. The elevation offset when you're in the site plan under Drawing Options<Site Options
2. When you click on the building outline; Attributes>Offset

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