Not directly. I recommend drawing around the settlements with the tool, then placing individual trees after that along the edges to give a tighter fit (And finish off with a sort symbols in map to arrange them properly.)

There is also the exclusion commands, this allows you to specify areas to exclude, but this only work with polygons, not symbols.

1. Generally don't overwrite things, make a copy and edit it instead.
2. There are a lot of things you can change from within the program that you could make a backup off, such as Symbol Catalogs (.fsc files, live in the @Symbols directory), Drawing Tools (.dto files, lives in @System\drawtools), templates (*fct, @Templates), symbol catalog settings (.sis, @System\Symbol Catalog Settings), Symbol Catalog Master Filters (.sif, @System\Symbol Catalog Master Filters)
3. No. There isn't a way to reset other than reinstall or restore from backup.

Note that the files you are most likely to change (accidentally) are drawing tools. Symbol Catalogs can only be changed by loading the symbol catalog as a drawing (instead of into the symbol catalog window) something most people don't do and pretty much guaranteed wil never happen accidentally. Same with templates, you need to load these as a drawing to change them, changes in a drawing never change the template it is based on. Symbol catalog Settings are also somewhat easy to accidentally modify, if you click advanced in the select symbol catalog window.

Things that only affect the current drawing are changes to fill styles via the Fill style dialog, as well as editing symbols via the symbol manager. The latter only edits the copy of the symbol in the drawing, and not the global symbol catalog.

Try installing the latest update. After doing that, if the buttons are still missing, manually run CC3MenuConfig.exe found in your CC3+ data directory.

This happens if in Tools -> Options, you deselect the "Select with right button context menu" option.

The reason it pops up when you click in your map is that clicking in your map without a command active will automatically repeat the last command, and if the option mentioned above is unset, this will pop up if the command require a selection.

It is a bit difficult to see the end result. Could you make it a bit more visible to be closer to the visibility of the paving on the pier?

Thanks Jim.

Maps are now in the atlas. Thanks for contributing.

Well, that's the main idea behind making maps, isn't it?

A map doesn't have to be some sort of artistic masterpiece to be a great map, a map should fit the intended use case. Visually stunning doesn't always make for a good map.

If they are pixelated, it is usually because the scale for the fill in the fill style dialog is way to large. Try reducing it for the fill styles in question.

You can also force CC3+ to use a higher resolution version of the file through the Display Speed Settings.

May want to wait for Summer then...

For symbols, instead of copying from the symbol editing window, you can just place the symbol, then use :CC2EXPLODE: on it to turn it into it's basic entities.

You can also make symbols that place on multiple sheets: