How do you draw contours in Autocad Civil 3D?

How do you draw contours in Autocad Civil 3D?

In the Prospector tree, expand the Surfaces collection Definition. Click the Contours collection. The contours with their descriptions are displayed in the Prospector list view. Right-click a contour operation in the list view and click Insert To Drawing.

How do you create a contour style in Civil 3D?

In the Surface Style dialog box, click the Information tab and enter a name and description for the surface style. To define the display of surface borders, click the Borders tab and specify the settings. To define the display of surface contours, click the Contours tab and specify the settings.

How do I create a contour plan?

The two ways to establish a contour map are the cross-section method and the trace contour method. To use the cross-section method, set a control or reference line at the center of the lot, then lay out and stake a grid; the elevation is determined at each stake in the grid relative to a benchmark.

How do you make a contour section?

Lesson Summary

1. Put a strip of paper along the cross-section and make a mark on your paper wherever the contour lines intersect with your paper.
2. Take that strip of paper and put it on a clean piece of paper.
3. Draw dots on the elevation lines defined by your strip of paper.
4. Draw a smooth line connecting the dots.

How do you convert polylines to contour lines?

Converting Contour Objects

1. On the command line, enter EXPLODE, select a contour, and then press ENTER.
2. Enter LIST and select the same contour.
3. Press ESC and then close the text window.
4. On the Terrain menu, click Contour Utilities, click Convert Polylines, and then select the contour polyline and press ENTER.

How do you make a surface into a polyline?

Yeah. Turn your border on within your surface style, select surface and within contextual ribbon there is a extract objects icon, then a dialogue will pop up asking what you would like to extract. Uncheck everything except for border, hit ok. Border will be extracted as a 3dpolyline.

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