Design

Design

Design Tools enable designers to test and compare spatial, environmental, and performance criteria directly within parametric models. The tools are divided into three categories: Road Tools, for generating and refining street geometry and sections; Parcel and Building Tools, for shaping parcels, extruding buildings, and managing design attributes; and Viewport Tools, for visualizing density, height, and other spatial performance metrics in real time.

Road Tools

Tool	Function	Input			Output
		Initial	Name	Description	Initial	Name	Description
Offset Tool	Offset curve based on categorized width	Crv	Curves	Input curve to offset	U	Union Result	Union all offset curves
		Wd	Widths	Offset widths for each curve	O	Offset Curves	Offset curves
					Wd	Widths	Widths for each offset curve
Chamfer Tool	Chamfer curve based on relevant offset width	U	Union Curves	Union curve to split	C	Chamfer Radius	Chamfer boundaries
		O	Offset Curves	Offset curves for intersection	J	Join Curves	Connecting curves
		Wd	Widths	Widths for each offset curve	R	Result Curves	Chamfered closed curves
		R	Ratio	Chamfer circle radius ratio
Fillet Tool	Fillet curve based on relevant offset width	U	Union Curves	Union curve to split	C	Chamfer Radius	Chamfer boundaries
		O	Offset Curves	Offset curves for intersection	J	Join Curves	Connecting curves
		Wd	Widths	Widths for each offset curve	R	Result Curves	Chamfered closed curves
		R	Ratio	Chamfer circle radius ratio
Road Section		Hc	Headway Count	Number of headways per side	Rects	Section Rectngles	Closed rectangles for each section parts
		Hw	Headway Width	Width of each headway	Geo	Embedded Geometry	Embedded car/geometry placed on suitable sections
		Pc	Ped Count	Number of pedestrian path per side
		Pw	Widths	Width of each pedestrian path
		Cw	Curb Width	Width of curbs
		Iw	Island Width	Width of center island
		H	Lane Height	Height od section rectangles
		T	Text Height	Height of font

Parcel & Building Tools

Tool	Function	Input			Output
		Initial	Name	Description	Initial	Name	Description
Recursive Split	Splits planar boundaries recursively using subdivided curves	C	Curve	Base curve boundary	Sort	Sorted	Sorted input segments
		F	Fraction	Subdivision domain fraction (0.0 to 1.0)	S	Splits	All splitting curves
		N	Iterations	Number of recursive iterations	B	Boundaries	Joined closed curves
Extract Parcel	Extract Parcel by substracting deisgned road and site boundary	Rd	Roads	List of closed road curves	P	Parcels	Resulting parcel curves
		S	Site	Site boundary curve	Ct	Centroids	Center points
					A	Area	Area of closed curves
Calculate Parcel	Calculate parcels for areas, GFA, FAR, BCR, etc	ctBld	Building Centroids	List of building footprint centroids	Fp	Footprint	Footprint area per parcel
		areaBld	Building Areas	List of building footprint area	BCR	BCR	Building Coverage Ratio
		floorBld	Building Floors	List of building floors	GFA	GFA	Gross Floor Area per parcel
		P	Parcels	Tree of parcel curves	FAR	FAR	Floor Area Ratio per parcel
					MaxF	Max Floor	Maximum floors per parcel
Extrude Building	Extrude building curves based on types and floors	C	Curves	Footprint curves	All	All Extrusion	All extrude volumes
		T	Types	Building types: landed or tower	Landed	Landed Extrusions	Extrusions for landed buildings
		F	Floors	Floor count for each cruve	Tower	Tower Extrusions	Extrusions for tower buildings
		H	Floor Height	Height on one floor

Viewport Tools

Tool	Function	Input			Output
		Initial	Name	Description	Initial	Name	Description
Foreground Bar	Create custom foreground bar preview	Pos	Position	Start location for drawing bars
		Labels	Text Items	List of text to display
		Val	Values	List of segment values
		C	Color	Rectangle fill color
		Rd	Radius	Radius of the pie chart
Viewport Pie	Create custom pie preview	Pos	Position	Start location for drawing bars
		Labels	Text Items	List of text to display
		Val	Values	List of segment values
		C	Color	Rectangle fill color
		Wd	Widths	Maximum rectangle width in pixels

Tip

These tools are flexible, allowing road detail inputs to be modified through the provided .csv input files. This enables users to customize parameters, update design assumptions, and test multiple scenarios without altering the core model logic.