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To be able to follow along with this article, ensure dictionary items are created for all your buildings. |
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E.g. In a University Campus, you want to distinguish between ‘Student Housing', ‘Accommodation’ and ‘University Buildings’ visually on the map. Creating ‘dummy’ 3D structures' will allow the user to distinguish the buildings from one another by colouring them differently.
e.g. Student Housing are all yellow, and University Buildings are all light grey (as shown in the image below)
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3. Second shape: Draw the building with the ‘Free-form/landscape’ feature type and apply the ‘Building Structure Group A’ dictionary item
First shape: Draw buildings in Map Editor
Firstly, the user will need to draw the first shape of each building they wish to include in the group colour
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Repeat the steps above to draw all buildings that you wish to include in the group colour |
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Create Destination Dictionary for the 'Dummy' 3D Structure in Map Editor
In order to visually group buildings using colour, we will create a ‘Dummy Structure’ to assign a Dictionary Item such as ‘Building Structure Group A’ which will control the colour universally.
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7. Override dark map colour. Select a colour to override the colour of your buildings on Dark mode eXplorer Map
8. Save changes
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Second shape: Draw 'Dummy' 3D Structure in Map Editor
1. Select ‘Free-form/landscape’ feature-type in the Feature Tools (right side panel)
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Final ResultOnce you have successfully applied all the dummy structure ‘Building Structure Group A’ to all your buildings, they will all be blue colours. This is seen in the photo below on the top left. |
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