Giraffe is a tool for expressing your ideas.

We’ve tried to make that as simple as possible. Giraffe is a data creation tool. Draw, 3D, areas.

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Adding new elements

Use the "Draw Bar" at the top of the screen to create something

1. Draw Buildings

   List of all Building Section type Usages in the current project

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   How to Draw Buildings in Giraffe

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2. Draw Horizontals

   List of all Landscape, Paving, and Road/Path usages in current project

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   How to Draw Landscape in Giraffe How to draw parking in Giraffe and How to Draw Roads and Paths in Giraffe

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3. Draw Land Use

   List of all Land Use and Lot/Parcel usages in current project

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   How to Draw Land Use in Giraffe

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4. Generic Shapes

   Draw a rectangle, polygon, line, or point with no usage applied

   

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   Rectangle, Polygon, Line, and Point

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5. Flow Shapes

   Draw complex geometries created from the Flow Builder (Legacy)

   

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   Flows and Flow Builder (Legacy)

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6. Annotations

   Add Markers, Arrows, Blurred Line, and more

   

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   How to Use Annotations

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7. Measure

   Quickly ‣ something on the map or place permanent Dimensions

   

8. More

   1. Select - Marquee Select, Lasso Select, and more
   2. Clipboard - Copy/paste, Delete, and more
   3. Move - Basepoint Move, Basepoint Rotate and more
   4. Edit - Split, Union, Mirror and more
   5. Group - Edit and create Groups
   6. Snaps & Grids - Snap Settings and Grid
   7. The Project Boundary
   8. Design Library
   9. Command Line

Drawing Methods

Giraffe offers 3 methods of generating building geometry:

• Rectangle: Start with a 90° rectangular shape. Great for regularly shaped geometry.
• Spine: Start with a single line. Great for long buildings or L- and U-shaped geometry.
• Irregular Shapes: Start with existing geometry and edit using the standard toolset, or choose the polygon draw method.

Choose what you want to create in the draw bar, then start drawing by clicking on the map.

Option 1: Select the usage (eg. Residential) and start drawing an element of that type directly

Option 2: Draw a shape first, then add a usage later. Rectangle is a convenient tool for drawing polygons with right angles.

<aside> 💡 Hold down the S key on your keyboard to snap nodes to existing features as you draw.

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<aside> 💡 For precise distances, type a number on the keyboard, and hit enter. Learn more about Drawing Accurately

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Rectangle