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Creating a Drape mass element
1 On the Massing tool palette, select the Drape tool.
Alternatively, you can click Home tab ➤ Build panel ➤ Box
drop-down ➤ Drape .
2 Select the polylines or AEC Polygons to represent contours, and
press ENTER.
3 Specify whether the source contours should be deleted after
creating the drape mass element, and press ENTER.
4 Specify which mesh type you want to generate.
Then…If you want…
enter y (Yes) for Generate Regular Mesh
[Yes/No].
a surface with user-defined
mesh density and mass ele-
ment size (non-triangulated
surface)
enter n (No) for Generate Regular Mesh
[Yes/No].
a surface defined from the in-
put contours and points
(Delaunay triangulation)
5 If you are generating a regular mesh, complete the following steps:
â– Specify the first corner point of the mesh.
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