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Create and edit surface

Create and edit surface

- [Narrator] In the previous videos, we learned some different individual techniques for creating and editing surfaces. Now let's put it all together. I'll start by creating a new surface. And I'll do that by clicking the prospector tab, right clicking surfaces, and picking create surface. We'll call our surface EG Sample to match what we've seen in the previous drawings. Now I'm ready to add some data to EG Sample because right now it's kind of an empty shell. I'll expand the definition section and I'll right click point groups and pick add. Now it just so happens in this drawing that all of the points in my drawing are good candidates for creating my surface. So I can choose the all points point group. In most cases, you're probably going to choose a subset of your points. In which case you might choose one of these other point groups. I'll pick all points and click okay. And right away, we see the contours appear in…

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