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NEW: Compare objects with Project Explorer

NEW: Compare objects with Project Explorer - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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NEW: Compare objects with Project Explorer

- [Narrator] In the previous video you learned how to edit objects using Project Explorer. Now let's take a look at comparing objects. I'll start by selecting a corridor. I'll click the corridor tab and select our subdivision roads corridor here. And you'll notice in the top right there's a dropdown called compare to. I'll click the dropdown and I'll pick my EG surface. And here you can see the EG surface represented in the preview as a green dashed line. And this just gives me a visual way to see where my corridor is compared to that surface. And of course that will work at whichever station I pick along the corridor. Now let's take a look at a different example. I'll go to my feature lines tab, scroll down until I find the retaining wall feature line, and then I'll click the compare to dropdown for that object, scroll down near the bottom of this dropdown list and pick EG once again. Now this time we won't see anything…

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