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• Open Site Context app from Coordination or Construction

• Enter the address or the lat/long of the site (partial addresses are generally accepted)

  • Suggestions will populate as you type, which you can click to autopopulate your address

  • Depending on where you live, you may not get an address populating, in which case you can use Google to access your latitude and longitude

    • See Section At End of Page (Google Lat/Long)

• Your map will load into the UI

• You can swap between satellite and street view

• You can swap between elevation and flat

• You can also generate the site context model from this point

• Click Generate and the model will load

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• Your model loads with a 3D marker to point out the exact address, and 4 arrows to allow you to expand your site context model in case the default size is not big enough

• Click an arrow to see that a second tile loads in next to this site context

• These arrows will go away when you excavate or save and reload the file, which means if you save and reload before you are done expanding the site, then you will have to generate a new one at the same location

• You can delete the building models without issue

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Site Context Tools - Define Site and Smooth

• To adjust elevation by either flattening or smoothing, you can select the site context model

• Here you have options in the BIM properties to Define Site (flatten by area) or Terrain Smooth (create smoother sloping for hills/sharp edges)

• Click the Define Site tool

  • You will be drawing similar to zones here, by clicking points so that the area you create will be flattened

  • You can select a height for this to be at initially, and you can also adjust the slider later to your preferred elevation

• Click a minimum of 3 points in the scene

• Finalize by hitting ESC

• The section is flat

  • Adjust the Height slider or enter a number for preferred height

• Click the Terrain Smooth tool

• Click and drag around the outer edges of the elevation change you made with Define Site

  • We’ve found that dragging from a lower elevation to a higher elevation tends to create acceptable slopes

  • The direction you drag the smooth brush well affect the outcome of the smoothing

• You’ll see the edges begin to smooth and slopes forming

• You can adjust the size and strength of the brush as well for more accuracy, smaller brush and lower strength means more accuracy but slower brushing

  • We’ve found that for smoothing out site definition, it’s best to go high strength with a wide radius, but the smaller sizes are available for more fine control

Misc. Info

• The arrows to expand the tiles of site context will disappear on save and reload. This is to prevent accidental undoing of work, since define site will be undone by generating more tiles, and the arrows are clickable through everything. You can gain the arrows back by reopening the site context app, allowing you to expand even after save and reload.

• Site Define and Terrain Smooth brushes will disappear from Site Context model after making an excavation on it

Google Lat/Long

You may not be able to see your address populate, especially if the address you’re working with doesn’t exist yet or in some cases where international locations won’t populate.

1. Open Google maps (http://google.com/maps )

2. Type in your address - or - if one doesn’t exist yet type in a nearby address

3. Click on the map where your site is or will be

   1. Alternatively just right click and context menu appears with lat/long which you can click to copy to clipboard

4. Blurb opens at bottom of page which you can click and drag to copy

5. Open Site Context app in Fuzor

6. Paste (CTRL + V) your copied lat/long into the Project Address field

   1. It will auto populate lat/long fields and start generating a map!