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Define surface soundaries

Define surface soundaries - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Define surface soundaries

- [Tutor] Surface boundaries are used to contain surfaces and control where they are and where they aren't. Let's see how they work. I've got a surface in this drawing and as you can also see, I've got some rectangles here. And I'd like to use these as boundaries for my surface. So to get started I'll locate my surface which happens to be called boundary test. I'll expand boundary test, expand definition and here I can right click boundaries and pick add. Now there's another way I can do this. I can select my surface and on the contextual ribbon tab I can go up here to add data and then boundaries. Either one will work just fine. I like using the method in prospector because I don't have to select the surface to complete the command. So right click boundaries and pick add. And you'll notice that there are four different types outer, show, hide and data clip. We're going to start with an outer boundary. And just to…

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