Save your progress so you can come back later or share with your team.

Saving your Work

When you open giraffe, you probably started in Scratchpad. Scratchpad is an area where you can play with layers and geometries without saving your work - just like a back of the napkin sketch!

To save your work, you need to create a Project.

Once you create a project in Giraffe, your changes automatically save.

Start a new project

If you have work already on the map, like layers, lenses, or geometries, that you would like to save, proceed to the next section to define a boundary ( The Project Boundary)

If you have not already been working in scratchpad, or you want to start from a blank slate, you can click “New project” in the top bar. Select the project dropdown > New Project.

<aside> 🚨 Note: Clicking new project will clear all geometries, lenses, and layers from scratchpad!

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The New Project modal will appear.

Click one of the Templates to apply those settings to your new project. You can also start from the Giraffe defaults by clicking “Blank”

Define a site boundary

The project boundary is an important metric. It drives FSR/FAR, open space ratios, and more.

There are multiple ways to The Project Boundary.

Option 1: Draw a boundary manually before defining a project.

1. Click “Draw Boundary” in the top right

1. Draw your boundary. The boundary drawing tool works the same as for any other shape in Giraffe.

2. Finish or save

   

   Click Save project as to create a new project.

Option 2: You can set the boundary to a map geometry.

1. Right click on a map element and click 'Set' on the contextual menu.
2. You can merge multiple geometries into one boundary by right clicking on them and clicking 'Merge' on the contextual menu.
3. Finish or save

Click Done to finish editing

Or Click Save project as to create a new project.