Here’s an overview of the tools available in the Massing toolbar:
Tools in the Massing toolbar
- Buildings — tools that let you create building forms
- Basic Buildings — for fast conceptual massing
- Using Parametric Layout
- Line Buildings — for parametric and structured layouts
- House — for row houses and residential developments
- Site automation — design automation that lets you quickly generate and explore site and building layouts
- Modeling — tools that let you model complex geometries
- 3D Sketch Buildings — for buildings with advanced and complex geometry
- Generic — tools for modeling other geometric elements (not new buildings in your project) that will affect your analyses
- Volume — for flexible custom massing
- Surface
- Line
- Areas — tools that let you designate specific areas
- Site Limit — the boundary of your project site
- Zone — any area with a special function
- Constraint — a bounding box that your building cannot exceed
- Surface Parking
- Site — tools that let you model landscaping, terrain, and transportation features
- Tree Lines and Areas
- Terrain Pads — to create a level area on a portion of the site
- Roads
- Railroads
- Annotations
- Measure Distance
- Label
- Import model — from other modeling tools
Choosing Which Tool to Use
- Often, there is more than one way to create the same building form.
- The choice of tool depends on the level of control, speed, flexibility, and the type of analysis or development required later in the workflow.