How to create a stream or mill race

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For those lucky enough to have the need to show a mill race, canal or river bank.

Its best to create the stream as a separate building.

On the ground floor, define your ground floor area. Texture this area with grass.

Create a basement floor using the menu Floor>New Bottom Floor. On this basement floor we will add the walls to the mill stream. Use the curve wall function to get a natural look.

Set the floor height to be 1m (default is 2.8m) and then set the height above ground floor level to be –0.9m. This will then project your wall from the basement just above our grass.

We now use the Define ground area cut-out tool to cut out the grass that is currently filling in the stream.

We will now add the water by inserting a block object and then applying a water material to the block.

The completed canal ready for building next to. I suggest you next use a new building to build your actual building on.