Above is a photo of a work-in-progress landscape design I'm working on. I need help on creating the best method of handling the colored sections, a paver pool deck and the pool itself. Since landscape design is always subject to change, I created both objects as splines (joined with standard lines in appropriate areas like the steps). I needed to retain the ability to move curves around, which as far as I know is best done via a spline.
However, I simultaneously need three other things:
So I need to be able to edit the pool and the pool deck separately, yet keep the border between the pool and pool deck aligned. Otherwise, If I need to edit the shape of the pool, I then need to edit the inner edge of the pool deck to realign the two while keeping them separate in terms of area calculation.
These conditions are possible if I do one the following (but I wonder if there's a much easier way):
-OR-
Now they are quasi-separate objects for which area can be found, but as regions/polylines the curves are not easily editable...
Any advice for a noob on this? Thanks!
Make the fill-in Hatch patterns again, but this time as Associative Hatches. That will tie them to their perimeter bounding objects, so when you edit the shape of those, the Hatches will adjust accordingly. You can just pick on a Hatch pattern and see its Area in the Properties palette.
But I confess I'm not quite sure what you mean by:
Is that about a double boundary between pool and deck [the image isn't quite clear about it], that should remain in two pieces paralleling each other? If so, that's a separate problem....
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