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P3D v4 Blender Issue - can't make a solid object

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Colin Gray

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Good afternoon,

Pretty sure that my subject line doesn't quite say what I want it to. I've been following Bill Womack's tutorial on making ground polys. I'm using Blender 2.79 as that what he used in those videos. When I try to trace the apron using vertices, everything seems okay until I press 'F' to fill it. Only part of the object turns grey. If I use my mouse wheel to tilt the image of the airfield, I can see some of the object is tilted. Some of it is below the image, the rest is above.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is - once I have inserted the image of the airfield (file > import > images as planes), how do I follow the next steps of making the base asphalt layer? I've set Z to 0m. To rotate the plane of the airfield, I'm using pressing the scroll wheel of the mouse while dragging the mouse. I rotate it so that the the blue arrow is pointing right at me. The green and red arrows are 90 degrees to each other. I'm in ortho mode. No matter what I do, I can't make it so that the poly I'm making sits flat on the plane of the airport.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance.

Colin
 
This is what I get when I try to make a polygon:

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I've tried using the snap to surface function, but it seems to attach it to the opposite side only.
 
I would sugget to rotate the polygon until it is as flat as you can get it with the terrain. Check from all three orthographic angles to adjust the polygon while using x-ray view. Move and rotate as appropriate. Once you are happy with the alignment, then press Ctrl-A and reset rotation and scale. If it attaches to the opposite side only, then you can flip the normals of the polygon.
 
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