From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Create an existing ground surface

Create an existing ground surface - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Create an existing ground surface

“

- [Instructor] Now that we know a little bit about surfaces, let's create one. I'll start by going to Prospector and finding the surfaces node. I'll right-click on surfaces and simply pick Create Surface. I've got to provide some information about the new surface that I'm creating. First the name. Next I can enter a description. That's optional, but I can certainly do that if I choose. An important choice is the style, so I'm going to set that to See Existing Contours. So the name of the style suggests that we're probably going to see contours when we use this style. And for now that's all we need. I'll go ahead and click OK. Now, nothing happens in the drawing. I've basically created kind of an empty container that is this surface. If I expand surfaces, you'll see EG listed beneath it. If I expand EG and then definition, you'll see a list of potential kinds of data that I can use to define and manipulate the…

Contents