Giraffe is a tool for expressing your ideas.

We’ve tried to make that as simple as possible. Giraffe is a data creation tool. Draw, 3D, areas.

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🦒 In-App Guide

Drawing Accurately

Manage Drawing Layers

Hotkeys

Video Intro To Drawing with Giraffe

• Guide Contents

Adding new elements

Use the "Draw Bar" at the bottom of the screen to create something

Drawing Tools

1. Draw Buildings
2. Draw Landscape + Trees
3. Draw Roads and Parking
4. Add Annotations and Points of Interest
5. Flow Features
6. More Drawing Tools
7. Drawing Layers

Choose what you want to create in the dock, then start drawing by clicking on the map.

Option 1: Select the usage (eg. Residential) and start drawing an element of that type directly

Option 2: Draw a shape first, then add a usage later. Rectangle is a convenient tool for drawing polygons with right angles.

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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.