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Creating Maps with the 3D Massing Model

Published by City of Toronto

This is the City of Toronto’s document, as published on its website on 20 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice

Type: Form
Published by: City of Toronto
Also called: Creating Maps With the 3D Massing Model
For: designer
Building types: All building types
Pages: 8

Overview

The City of Toronto's SketchUp guide for producing the map image used on a development application notice sign, the option taken where a 3D massing view would not represent the intent of a proposal such as a policy amendment. It covers joining model tiles, turning on the parcels tag to find the subject site, drawing and cleaning a closed polygon over the property, colouring it orange, raising it off the ground, unhiding layers, establishing a viewing point, exporting a JPEG and painting out the tile seam in Photoshop.

What it covers

Open the model that contains the location of your site in SketchUp
Select parcels for the subject site
Creating a closed polygon of the subject property
Clean up the closed polygon
Highlight your application model
Raise the subject property slightly off of the ground
Unhide the hidden layers
All layers visible again
Zoom out and up
Establish a suitable viewing point
Export your view as a jpeg file for final editing in photoshop
Save settings for jpeg file
Finishing touches in photoshop
Import final rendering into sign master template and label

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