Drawing building volumes for layout

- Once you've constructed your city block,…you can start to lay out some streets,…and then finally, some building volumes.…I'll start with some streets,…and I'm going to make these symbols as well.…So, I've got clear representation of how many I need.…I'll press M for rectangle,…and I'm going to make a major and a minor set of streets.…I'll click once on my document,…and for this I'll put in a width of 400 and a height of 63.…Here's where this comes from.…A standard North American lane…is somewhere between eight and nine feet.…

What I'm figuring is that I've got…three lanes on either side,…one for parking, and two for traffic,…plus a center safety lane,…giving me a total of seven-lane widths.…At one pixel per foot, nine times seven give me 63 feet.…I'll press Enter to accept this,…and there's my rectangle hidden behind the transform pallet.…I use the Tab key to take out my menus…or hide them temporarily.…Now put some color on this,…and then some stripes so I can recognize it.…My color is up, and right now it's white.…