A project boundary marks your site, so Giraffe can measure site area and clear existing 3D buildings and trees from it. Every project needs a location before you can create it, either a boundary or a single point. Most of the time you draw the boundary while you create the project.

Set the location when you create a project

Pick parcels for the boundary

Start from your parcel data so the boundary matches the lot lines exactly. Picking parcels is also how you combine several parcels into one project.

Set up the parcel layers once. A workspace admin opens Workspace Settings, finds New Project Layers, clicks Choose layers, and picks your parcel layers. These layers then show on the map every time someone creates a project. Members only see the layers they have access to.
On the Home screen, pick a template. OR open the main menu and choose New Project, then pick a template.
Search for an address, or pan the map to frame your site.
Click Pick a parcel.
Click each parcel you want. Click a selected parcel again to remove it. If more than one parcel sits under your click, a list opens. Choose the parcel you want from the list.
Click Use selected (or Use 3 selected), or press Enter. Press Esc or click Cancel to stop picking.
Name your project, then click Create project.

The Pick a parcel button only shows when your workspace has at least one parcel layer set under New Project Layers. When you pick several parcels, parcels that touch merge into one shape.

Draw a boundary

On the Home screen, pick a template. OR open the main menu and choose New Project, then pick a template.
Search for an address, or pan the map to frame your site.
Click Draw a boundary.
Click the map to place each point, then click your first point again to close the shape.
Giraffe moves you to the Project details step. Name your project, then click Create project.

Press Esc to stop drawing.
To replace the boundary, click Previous and click Draw a boundary again.

Polygon boundaries automatically clear existing 3D buildings and trees from your site. Open the 3D buildings layer to edit or remove the exclusion boundary if you need them back.

Drop a pin instead of a boundary

Don't know the exact site yet? Set the project's location as a single point, and add the boundary later.

In the Where's your project? step, search for an address and pan the map to your site.
Click Drop a pin.
Click the map where your project is.
Name your project, then click Create project.

You can add a boundary to the project later.

Create projects from data layers in a Space

In a Space, you create projects from the parcels and sites in your data layers, so each project's boundary matches the parcel exactly.

Create one project from a shape

In a Space, turn on a data layer, like a parcel layer.
Right-click a shape on the map.
Choose Create New Project.

Create projects from several shapes

Select the rows you want in the Data Table.
Click Add selection to new project to make one project from every selected row. OR click Create multiple projects from selection to make one project for each row.

When one project uses several parcels, parcels that touch merge into one shape. Parcels that don't touch stay separate shapes in the same boundary.

Create a Boundary