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Editing Terrain Objects

time of 3D views. The time required is Lights and symbols can be placed outdoors
affected by the quality of the terrain, the and included in 3D views when the terrain is
amount of elevation data and number of generated. These objects can also contribute
terrain features present. For information to the time needed to generate 3D views. See
about surface triangles and how they “Rendering Tips” on page 1088.
influence terrain quality, see “General Panel”
on page 1216.

Editing Terrain Objects

Before a terrain object can be edited, it must • Elevation Lines, Elevation Splines and
be selected. All terrain objects can be Terrain Breaks are edited like other line-
selected in floor plan view. In addition, the and spline-based objects.
Terrain Perimeter and Terrain Features can • The shape of a Raised Region, Lowered
be selected in 3D views. See “Selecting Region, Hill, Valley, and Flat Region
Objects” on page 213. can be edited like a spline.
A selected terrain object can be edited using • Terrain Features are edited like other
its edit handles, edit tools and specification spline- and polyline-based objects.
dialog. See “Specification Dialogs” on page
42. Using the Edit Tools
Any time elevation data is changed, the A selected terrain object can be edited in a
terrain must be rebuilt. This can be done by variety of ways using the buttons on the edit
selecting Terrain> Build Terrain , and toolbar. The edit tools available for a terrain
occurs automatically when a 3D view is object depends on the type of object selected.
created. See “The Edit Toolbar” on page 38.

Using the Edit Handles Note: If you copy terrain objects from one
plan to another, you cannot view the pasted
Terrain objects can be move, resized, and objects in 3D unless a Terrain Perimeter
reshaped using their edit handles. How a exists.
selected object can be edited depends on
what type of object it is. See “Editing Using Dimensions
Objects” on page 207. Like many other types of objects, terrain
• The Terrain Perimeter can be moved, objects can be resized and moved using
resized, and reshaped like a polyline- dimensions. For more information see
based objects. “Moving Objects Using Dimensions” on
page 479.
• Elevation Points can be moved in floor
plan view using the Move edit handle.

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