Importing Sections From Single Surfaces

AutoCAD Land Desktop Tutorial

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Importing Sections From Single Surfaces

In this exercise, you will import the two sections into the drawing.

  1. From the Terrain menu, click Sections Import Sections.

  2. Press ENTER to accept the default, Datum, for the Datum line layer.

  3. Enter 2 for Vertical scale factor.

  4. Select a point to the right side of the current view near section line AA for the insertion of section AA, and then press ENTER to accept the default value for the Datum elevation.

  5. Select a point to the right side of the current view near section line BB for the insertion of section BB, and then press ENTER to accept the default value for the Datum elevation.

  6. Zoom in on the imported imported single surface sections.

    Click here to see an illustration of the imported single surface sections.

    Use the following steps to add grids to the sections.

  7. On the Terrain menu, click Sections Grid for Sections.

  8. Press ENTER to accept the default, Grid, for the Section grid layer.

  9. Select the section datum block text for section AA (the block at the lower-left corner of the section), and then enter 2 m for the Elevation increment and 5 m for the Offset increment.

  10. Select the section datum block text for section BB, press ENTER to accept the default, 2 m, for the Elevation increment and press ENTER to accept the default, 5 m, for the Offset increment, and then press ENTER to end the command.

Click here to see an illustration of the imported single surface sections with grids.