Creating a Patio

Our walkout basement could use a patio. As you may recall from previous tutorials, a terrain feature creates an object that sits on top of the terrain's surface. This will work well for a patio.

Press Ctrl + Tab to return to the the basement level in floor plan view.

Click the Up One Floor

button to go to the first floor. Terrain information should always be drawn on floor 1.

Select Terrain> Feature> Rectangular Feature

and draw a rectangular feature that sits on top of the flat region. This is much easier when Object Snaps

are on.

Open the rectangular feature for specification and on the General tab, set the Height to 4 inches (placing it 4 inches above the elevation region) and set the Thickness to 6 inches (making it 6 inches thick, 2 inches subgrade). Click OK to close the Terrain Feature Specification dialog.

Press Ctrl + Tab to return to the 3D camera view.

Creating a Patio

To draw a patio