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Terrain mesh - Archicad Tutorial

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Terrain mesh

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- [Voiceover] Now let's add a terrain for our project. So I'm going to go here to the basement and I'm going bring a .dwg file that I have here on the exercise file called Terrain Contours. I'm going to just drag and drop in here. ArchiCAD is going to ask what was the unit that we used when we did this drawing? It was millimeters. And here we have our 2D drawings with the contours. I know that this was the zero zero point so I'm going to drag it to the zero zero point of our project as well. And then I'm going to explode this into our current view. I don't want to keep the original, and make sure you choose here for layers, Use Drawing's Layers instead of importing all the layers from the .dwg. Now I don't have the original anymore but I do have all the lines here grouped together. Notice that this is a very dense group of lines which will generate a mesh with a lot of polygons which is not a good thing because it might make our drawing heavy. Ideally, we would redraw these using the…

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