Calculating and displaying grade and elevation
The Grade tool is available in all Vectorworks Design Suite products, but its site model functionality requires additional features that are available only in the Landmark and Architect products.
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Tool |
Workspace: Tool set |
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Grade
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Design Suite, Architect, Spotlight: Building Shell Landmark: Site Planning and Dims/Notes |
When used for site planning, the Grade tool annotates terrain slopes on site plan documents.
Networks of connected grade objects can be created to show elevation and slope characteristics across a surface. Grade objects can be used in conjunction with a site model (automatically picking up the elevation from the site model), and can modify the site model. If the site model does not yet exist, 3D loci can be generated from grade object elevations, and those can then be used as the basis of creating a site model.
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Mode |
Description |
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Standard Insertion
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Draws a grade object based on set elevation parameters or a site model |
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Edit Elevation
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Changes the elevation value of one or more existing grade objects |
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Update
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Updates all grade objects in the drawing, applying current preference settings and updating any overlapped elevation points |
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Preferences
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Sets the default global preferences for the grade object |
