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berginarchitect

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On my site level, I turned off everything but the toposurface and the building pad.  The building pad is not cutting the toposurface, however when i roll my mouse over the pad, it shows the outline of the volume it should be cutting through the toposurface, but it is not.

I know i'm doing a building pad...I can get it to work just fine in other project files, it just won't work for this one!?!?!  Is there some setting that I'm missing?  This seems so incredibly straight forward that I cannont fathom why it's not working...

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berginarchitect

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This is getting extremely frustrating...

I've verified that all of my foundation walls are facing the correct direction, I've deleted and recreated the toposurface and building pad at least 5 times, I added a concrete slab to the basement floor and I even tried creating a small building pad separate from my building on the same toposurface...nothing works.

I've attached an image showing the outline of the building pad/toposurface cut line cube highlighted, so I know it's there.  Everthing is set to the same phase (existing).  The most frustrating part is that the building pad cuts the toposurface PERFECTLY when I try modeling it in a new project file...What can I do?  Recreating the model from scratch is not in our budget!

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berginarchitect

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SUCCESS!!!

WWHub, you were right!  When I first started modeling the site plan, I must have created a toposurface on the "new construction" phase, however my view was only showing me the "existing" phase because afterall, this is an existing building.

So I toggled some settings and bam, there is the rogue toposurface on the new construction phase!  And wouldn't you know, the freakin building pad was cutting throgh that toposurface!  I deleted the rogue surface and recreated the building pad and now I'm all set! 

I knew it had to be something stupid like that...thanks for your help!

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