Tip To flatten an area, you can sketch a coverage and raise or lower the whole coverage a very small amount.
Creating Holes in a Terrain
Use the Terrain Hole material to render part of a terrain area as a hole. This material is useful for cutting rectangular openings with a clean edge in a surface. For example, if you are modeling a rail line, the Terrain Hole can show the station entrances under the ground.
NoteAssigning the Transparent color material to a coverage renders that coverage feature with a transparent material. If there are other coverage features (with non-transparent materials assigned to them) that cover the same area, The transparent coverage reveals those materials.
- Click
(). - In the , click
(). The dialog box is displayed and set to . You can also switch to .
- Select a style and click .
- Sketch the coverage area in the model or proposal.
| Action | Result | Visual |
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Click the starting point for the coverage area and click each corner. Double-click to finish the area. | The boundary is filled by the coverage style you selected. |  |
When you add coverage areas to the model, they appear on the master layer. View coverage information from the .
When you add coverage areas to a proposal, Infrastructure Modeler adds information (such as the area) to the section of the .
To change the style for subsequent coverages you create
- Click
if the Draw Strip is not displayed. - In the Draw Strip, click
() twice. NoteMake two separate clicks; do not double-click.
- In the flyout that displays, click a previously used style or click
(). - Select a new coverage style and click .
- Sketch the boundary of the coverage polygon in the model or proposal as instructed in the previous procedure.
To create a hole in terrain
- Draw the coverage area where you want the hole to appear.
For example, position the coverage over an underground area you want to be able to see from above.
- In the Draw Strip, click
() twice. NoteMake two separate clicks; do not double-click.
- In the flyout that displays, click
(). - Click the tab on the left side of the dialog box.
- From the drop-down list at the top of the dialog box, select .
- Click .