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Drawing

Drawing Accurately

Smart Geometry

Flow Builder

Podium

Townhomes

Mixed Purpose Floors

Wrap

Core & Shell

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You can build Anything in Giraffe! Here are some examples:

Core & Shell

Wrap Development

Podium Development

Mixed-Use Development

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 start with a generic polygon and apply a usage later.

Rectangle

Click the tool in the draw palette, then select the Usage you would like to apply.

Click once to initiate the shape and a second time to define the width. Pull to specify the length. Click to end tool command.

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Spine

In the draw palette, select the diagonal 2-dot icon next to the Usage you would like to apply.

Click at each corner of the line. Double Click at the final node to exit the tool.