From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2023 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,900 courses taught by industry experts.

Create an existing ground surface

Create an existing ground surface - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2023 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

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, okay. 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…

Contents