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Input

• Group containing edges.
• Raw edges or faces.

Only edges will be embedded.

Operation

Direct

1. Pre-select valid inputs, per above.
2. Run Embed.
3. To adjust result, type values.

Embed is a Pick command.

Embed with Caution

Embed tries to give all edges in your selection a representation in the terrain. Even edges that are very short.

However, like with any Sketchup geometry, Landshape terrain does not like tiny edges. Tiny edges may break the integrity of the terrain mesh.

Therefore, always avoid embedding tiny edges.

If you run Embed on input containing tiny edges, Embed will try to warn you.

Always clean external edge input

Edgework from external sources, such as *.dwg imports from e.g. Autocad, often contains lots of tiny edges and other bad geometry.

To try to automatically remove tiny edges from your input, select your input and run Clean. Currently, Clean only works on edges that are connected to a face.

It is best practise to

However, it can be hard to discover tiny edges just by looking at linework.

If you have created some simple input yourself, using native tools like rectangle, or circle

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Clean.

Find for tiny edges

It is best practise to

Inspect Edges.

1. Define

Why Embed?

1. Define a border between different terrain materials

For instance to separate a gravel path from surrounding grass, or to separate the golf green from its fairway, also when they share the same elevation.

2. Define a sharp feature in the terrain

For instance along a retaining wall, a flight of steps, or the intersection of the terrain with some other built feature.

To embed with Fences, see Embed Fence.

Try Embed Yourself

Basic – A Simple Golf Green

First, create a new Landshape terrain, using Plot or Form.

Then, create a circle using Sketchup's circle tool. Group the circle. Paint it with a green color. Select the circle.

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Advanced – Retaining Wall

Let's say you have a slope, and wish to create a terrace by adding a retaining wall, made of corteen steel, ¼ inch thick. In Landshape, remember that terrain may have any slope, as long as it's not vertical. This includes a 89.9° precipice.

Draw a circle in the model void, group it, and rotate it in green or red, using standard Sketchup tools.

Select the group, and run Form. This should create a new Landshape terrain plot.

Now, model your corteen steel sheet using standard Sketchup tools. It can be rectangular or sinuous. If you do a series of planar curves, select them and offset them 1/4 inch, and connect the ends to close the loop and make a face. Pushpull the face to make it an extruded solid, group the geometry. Position the object in the model at desired position.

Then, enter the group, and Select only its upper face. It should be a single face 1/4 inch wide. A face by necessity is bound by edges. These edges we are going to embed. With the face selected, run Embed Fence.

Landshape will now project the any edge in the selection into the terrain, and enmesh it there, and make the appropriate new faces. This gives the terrain the required local definition.

The final step is to shape the terrain. In this case, we wish to move into place two existing terrain areas, that of the upper and that of the lower terrace. There are several ways. Here, we'll show two.

A. If you prefer the expressivity of brushes, you can may use Level Brush. Here, you can click Alt to sample e.g. the upper part of the corteen wall, amd while in Level Brush also right-click and pick Stop on Fence, and keep brushing. Use e.g. 100% strength and 50% falloff.

B. If you prefer the accuracy of pickers, first make some target geometry. In this case, it could be two groups with a rectangle, one for each terrace. Make sure to leave a gap where the retaining wall is. Now, select both groups, and run Fit. Make sure to use 100% strength and no falloff.