Take you project to the next level.
Create custom properties to add your specific assumptions into Giraffe.
List of Included Feature Properties
Properties in Giraffe allow you to tell your project story. Use properties to control everything from giving all the residential buildings the same buildCost to making all annotations blue. Giraffe comes pre-loading with many properties (see the full List of Included Feature Properties) or you can create your own.
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Properties can apply at both the Usages and Features level.
Usages enable you to compile a database of standards and assumptions, composed of Properties. This allows your team to apply the same data to multiple geometries within a project - from giving all the residential buildings the same hard cost to making all arrows red.
Giraffe comes with some default usages such as Residential , Road, Carpark and Annotation , and you can create your own and copy them between projects.
Each shape in Giraffe are GeoJSON features with a geometry and various Properties . Giraffe allows any property to be added to these shapes by users or apps.
Certain properties are used by Giraffe to render the shape on the map, and to perform the calculations required for Urban Calculations , so it is important that users are aware of these.
If a geometry feature has a property that exists in the feature’s Usages, the section will inherit properties from the Usage it references.
If the property is set directly in the feature, the feature-level property has priority. That is, feature properties override the Usage’s properties at the instance level.
Controls multiple features.
Edit in the Usages Editor
Use to control many objects
Controls a single selected feature
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Use to override Usages in a one-off fashion
Add a custom property to Usages or Features
If after reviewing the List of Included Feature Properties, you’re still missing what you need, you can create any property you want from scratch.
Click “Add property.” Type the property name you would like to use, then click “create”
Select which type of property you would like to create: