Sites - Model View Options – MyCi Knowledge Base

The Sites tool has several Model View Options (MVOs) available so that you can set the appearance for Sites Elements to be different in each view, rather than having to change their settings every time you want them to display differently.

The Sites MVOs are split into two broad Categories:

Boundaries

This covers settings for the Site Boundary elements, and is split into 2 groups:

Lines
Labels

Cutout Plants

And this area covers the Cutout Plants elements, and is made up of 5 parts:

Trees
Shrubs
Ground Cover
Protected Trees
Labels

Let us explore these individually

Boundaries

Lines

These Lines Relate to the Site Boundaries created with the Sites Tool. The interface is setout as follows:

Controls if the Yard Setback line should be displayed
Sets whether the Boundary is labelled
These settings control the Pen Colour and Linetype of the Boundary Line
Controls the Pen colour of the Setback line, and the Linetype of it
Controls the Pen colour of the circles at the end of the boundary lines
These Settings Relate to the settings for the contents of the Boundary Labels (if turned on in (2))
And finally these settings control the Formatting of the text for the label

Labels

This sets the Contents of the Labels for Straight Boundaries. The available options are:
- Basic Label - this shows just the Length, Direction, and Envelope Data
- Custom Data - This lets you customise the data to be displayed. Set the Text Lines field to how many lines of text you want, and Above boundary defines the amount of those lines which are above the boundary line (the rest will display below it).
  Then Select the line you want to edit from the drop-down below that, and how many data elements should be in it. Then in the fields below, set the Prefix, Value, and Suffix for each data element
- or Listed Data - this works similarly to Custom data, but elements are presented in a list which can be dragged to wherever you want it, rather than centred about the Line itself
This sets the custom data for any Curved Boundaries - the available options are the same as in (1) above)

Cut-out Plants

Trees

Plan View Symbol Preference - the options available are:
- Photographic Image - displays a photo of a top-down view of the plant.
  Note: currently not all plants have Photographic plan view images, the plant shape will be displayed for any objects which do not have a top-down photo available
- Plant Shape - a silhouette of the plant in plan-view:
- Circle:
- None:
- Organic (random rotation and varying size) -this applies a percentage deviation in size as specified in the object settings and a random rotation to have a more ‘organic’ representation
Shadow Settings
Toggle On or Off displaying a shadow in Plan view, and set the Fill Type and Pen to use for it:
- Shadow Off:
- Shadow On: