Slopes and Berms used to be objects created in the Landscape tab. However, with version 7.5, Punch! moved their functionality to the Terrain Designer, and so they are no longer available for editing outside the TD except for users of the original Punch! AS18 (version 7.0).
Berms and slopes act by changing the elevation of various points on the terrain in predictable ways. In addition (a pun!), slopes and berms effects on the terrain are additive - if a berm is drawn over a point, that point's new elevation is its old elevation plus the additional height of the berm.
For more information about the older slopes and berms see The Ten Commandments of Punch! Terrain, and the newer Terrain Designer is discussed in The Ten Commandments of the Terrain Designer.
The full slope tool set an overall slope for the entire Punch! plan. The slope is indicated on the plan (Landscape tab) by an arrow. The butt of the arrow indicates the place where the slope crosses the zero reference plane. That crossing is actually a line, not a point, and it extends perpendicular to the arrow and passing through the butt point. Since there can only be one full slope in a Punch! drawing, InSync can only change its parameters. It is included in InSync for completeness' sake. The slope properties editing display is depicted below to the left.
Angle sets the maximum angle that the slope differs from the zero reference plane (and that angle is measured along the arrow).
Limited slopes, as opposed to full slopes, only affect a strip of the ground that runs perpendicular to the arrow the tool draws It is bounded by the perpendicular lines at he head and the butt of the arrow. The limited slope's effect is that elevation are increased linearly from the butt to the arrow, starting at zero and running up the desired angle up to the arrow head, and holding the height at all places beyond the arrow's head. The effect is spread uniformly to the right and left of the arrow. This creates a slope wave in the terrain. Limited slope edits are identical to those of the full slope.
Berms are areas of local change to the terrain. Within a berm the terrain elevations are the berm's height higher (or lower, if the height is negative) than would otherwise be the case. The berm properties editing display is depicted above on the right.
Height sets the additional height added to the terrain by the selected berms.
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