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Inquiry tool - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Inquiry tool

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- [Instructor] One additional pallet that's part of the Civil 3D interface is the Inquiry Tool pallet. We can find the Inquiry Tool pallet on the Analyze ribbon, and if we go all the way over to the Inquiry panel, we have our standard AutoCAD Inquiry, along with a few Civil 3D Inquiry tools, including the Inquiry Tool pallet. I'm going to click on this button, and it opens up the Inquiry Tool pallet. Now this is a pallet. I'm going to right-click near the name and choose to make sure Allow Docking's unchecked, and I'll slide it over here. Now what this does is it allows us to query or get information about Civil 3D objects. Surfaces, alignments, profiles, sections, corridors, and so forth. So for example, let me expand our pallet a little bit. And I'm going to choose a surface, expand that out, and then choose Surface Elevation and Grade at Point. When I do so, it asks me for a surface from this location. I'm going to choose the Osceola Road surface. Now that is this proposed grade…

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