Create shapes

CityEngine provides tools to draw and modify shapes.

You can use the following drawing tools when creating shapes:

Polygonal Shape Creation	Draw a polygon and switch between arcs and lines.
Rectangular Shape Creation	Draw a rectangle.
Circular Shape Creation	Draw a circle and change how many sides it has.
Push Pull	Use Push Pull tool to create volumes out of 2D shapes.
Guide Creation	Use guides to draw parallel and with an offset to existing features.
Texture shapes	Manually texture shapes and individual faces.
Cleanup shapes	Cleanup shapes to simplify geometry such as faces, vertices, and edges.
Align shapes to terrain	Align shapes to terrain.

You can use the following additional drawing options:

• Crop image
• Snapping
• Force a new shape
• Draw planar
• Close shapes automatically
• Modify shapes