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If you are working on a project that has a complex site condition that might require several
building pads at different elevations, you should be aware that the pads cannot overlap;
however, they can share common boundary edges. To help avoid this situation before you get
too involved in modeling any of the pads in your project, try using detail lines in your site plan
to lay out the pad design first.

adjusting the Section poché for Topographic Surfaces
if you would like to customize the settings for the fill pattern and depth of poché, click the dialog
launcher at the bottom of the Model site panel in the Massing & site tab of the ribbon. This will
open the site settings dialog box, shown here.

as you can see in this dialog box, you can change the section cut Material and the elevation of
poché Base settings. Note that the elevation value is in relation to the Revit project Base point.
you can also adjust the display format of contour lines shown on topographic surfaces, as well as
the units displayed by property lines.

Generating property Lines
Property lines are used to delineate the boundary of the lot within which your building will be
constructed. These special types of lines are different from simple model lines or detail lines
because they can be tagged with standard property line labels that will display segment lengths
along with bearings. The property line object can also report its area in a special tag.
You can create a property line in one of two ways: by sketching lines or by entering distances
and bearings in a table. In the following exercise, you will create a simple property line by
sketching and converting the sketched property line into a table of distances and bearings for
comparison:

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