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Combine surfaces

Combine surfaces - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Combine surfaces

- When grading a project you usually don't design the whole project at once. Instead you do it in smaller parts. At some point you'll need to combine those parts into one overall surface. That's what we're going to talk about in this video. As we look at this drawing you'll notice that we've got the grading all completed. All of the lot grading is completed. You'll notice an interior pond here. There's even a little area here. That's been graded along the daylight line between lots 73 and 76. Currently these are all different surfaces. There are five or six different surfaces in this drawing. In fact, if we go to prospector and expand surfaces we'll see them all here. Now, as I said in the opening there comes a time when you want to put this all together as one final FG or finished ground surface. So let's do that. I'll start by right-clicking surfaces and then picking, create surface. I'll call this FG final. And…

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