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Create site plans on terrain

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Create site plans on terrain

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- [Instructor] I'm going to use this shape here which is a building site plan. And if I use my tape measure tool, I can see that it's about 40 by 35. This shape is going to be a building site and I would like to put it on terrain. And make it a nice, level building spot on some 3D terrain. So to do that, I'm going to geo-locate it and I'm going to use the stamp tool which I can find under View, Tool Palettes, Sandbox. And this middle tool here is what I'll be using. But first, I need to bring in my terrain so that I know where to locate my building site. Under File, Geo-location, Add Location to find my terrain. You can type whatever city you'd like but I'm going to like San Luis Obispo, California, since that's where I'm from, and search. And now, I need to look on the map to find my building site. Now, it's a little bit pixelated so you can go ahead and zoom in for a more clear building site. If you're zoomed out too far…

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