DesignSeries.pngCalculating Grade for a Site Model

The Grade tool is available in all Vectorworks Design Series products, but its site model functionality requires additional features that are available only in the Landmark product. For information on creating solid sections from grade objects, see Creating a Solid Section from Grade Objects.

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The Grade tool is in the Site Planning tool set (Designer and Landmark workspaces) and the Building Shell tool set (Architect and Spotlight workspaces).

When used for site planning, the Grade tool annotates terrain slopes on site plan documents.

Networks of grade objects can be created to show slope characteristics across a surface. Grade objects can be used in conjunction with a site model, and can modify the site model. In addition, 3D loci can be generated from grade object elevations, and used as the basis of creating a site model.

The Grade tool has three modes:

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Mode
Description

Insert

Draws a grade object based on set elevation parameters or a site model

Edit Elevation

Changes the elevation value of one or more existing grade objects

Update

Updates all grade objects in the drawing, applying current preference settings and updating any overlapped elevation points

Preferences

Sets the default global preferences for the grade object

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Specifying Global Grade Object Preferences

Inserting Grade Objects

Editing Elevation

Analyzing Grade

Creating Loci from a Grade Object

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