From the course: AutoCAD Map 3D 2021 Essential Training
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Stylizing raster layers - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Map 3D 2021 Essential Training
Stylizing raster layers
- [Instructor] Raster images cannot be styled, but raster surfaces can. Raster surfaces can be color-coded, based on elevation, slope, or aspect. In this lesson, you will use a pre-can palette, based on the USGS, United States Geological Survey, color palette. Let's add the DEM now. Click data, connect to data. Let's change the connection name to DEM, and let's browse, to the GUELPH EAST.dem. Click open, click connect, click add to map, and once it's added, we'll close the data connect window. The default green color, does not express the elevations very well. You can barely make out the elevations, with the green. So, by using a palette, we can change the colors. So, in two dimensions we can see the various elevations. So, let's double click on Guelph East, where the band says one, under a theme, pick the drop down and choose theme again. Under specify theme, check the palette, in the drop down box, pick the USGS…
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