Coloring in a landscaped lawn area
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Hello all,
I am a Landscape Architect and new to SU. I have been drawing over a JPG of a house and landscaped yard that I drew in Autocad. I have been able to place boulders and trees but when it comes to filling in (coloring) the free form lawn area, it doesn't fill. I have been using splines to create the shape but I have no luck with the face. Any ideas of how I can do this would be greatly appreciated. I am using the free version of SU 8.
Thanks
Rick -
Hi Rick,
It could be that the lawn area isn't quite coplanar (flat), or perhaps there is a slight break in the perimeter, or it could be that SU is simply being a nuisance and refusing to fill it in.I would suggest checking the first possibility to start with. I'd also suggest moving the entire lawn area a set distance to one side while you work on it...to get it out of the way...then move it back when fixed. There is a Flatten ruby script that will make sure that all the outline is, in fact, flat.
Once you have done that, you can attack the other two possibilities in the same way...by drawing diagonals across the lawn until you get sections of it to fill in. You can then delete those diagonals when it is filled in.
If there is no break in the outline, you will get the entire lawn to fill-in. If there is a break, you'll gradually zero-in on the faulty section, because you'll get everything but that section to fill-in.Or you could post the lawn outline here, for us to take a look at.
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Thanks Alan,
Those are great suggestions. I too had thought about the coplaner thing and the perimeter break and tried to correct them
but it didn't work so I thought something else might be wrong. I will try your other good suggestions.
Thanks again,
Rick
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