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Landscape sections and the publish set
Section lines that cut the existing and proposed ground, walls with footings, paving and planted-area build-ups, steps and plants at mature size, on their own sheets; one publish set with a sheet list, a PDF and a DWG per sheet.
Written for CivilCraft 0.8. The same help is inside the app: press F1.
Levels › Section line: click the start and the end. Sections are named A, B, C… (rename them in Properties). A section draws, along its line:
- the existing ground (dashed) and the proposed ground;
- walls with their footings, where the line crosses them;
- paving and path build-ups, and planted-area mulch and topsoil (after clipping), hanging below the finished surface;
- steps in profile;
- plants within the set distance of the line, as silhouettes at mature size.
Properties sets that distance and a vertical exaggeration. In the Sheets dialog, Sections puts them on their own sheets, up to four to a sheet, each at a standard scale that fits.
The publish set
Publish set (.zip) in the Sheets dialog makes, in one .zip:
- one PDF that opens with the sheet list and then every landscape sheet, numbered L-1, L-2… (planting, grading, irrigation, details, sections, worksheets);
- a DWG per plan sheet with that sheet's layers (
L-*names kept) and a DWG per section drawing.
Each section line on the plan says which sheet it is on (A / L-5); the number is worked out from the set every time, so adding, removing or renaming sections renumbers them.