Building a Surface

AutoCAD Land Desktop Tutorial

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Building a Surface

In this exercise, you will build the surface using point, contour, breakline, and surface boundary data.

  1. On the Terrain Model Explorer, in the left pane, select Area1, and then right-click and click Build to display the Build Area1 dialog box.

  2. Enter Area1 for the Description.

  3. In the Surface Data Options section, clear the Use point file data check box and select the Minimize flat triangles resulting from contour data check box.

  4. Click OK to process all of the surface data and build the surface.

  5. As the Build Progress dialog box is displayed, click OK to end the command.

    The surface data for surface Area1 is displayed in the right pane of the Terrain Model Explorer. You now have a surface model generated from point, contour, and breakline data representing actual terrain conditions.

  6. When you have finshed reviewing the data in the Terrain Model Explorer, close it.

This concludes the Terrain Model Explorer lesson. In the next lesson, you'll learn about editing surfaces.