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Contour and Surface


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Hello all

 

How could I separate contours from a surface. I want to pick each contours separately for editing. At the moment Contours are attached together-as-one!

 

thanks

 

Jackie

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Quickly, I would say, make a copy of you surface and explode the copied surface you should have your contours on whatever layers they are on individually. It might take a lot of space though.

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What about the contours do you want to edit? You might be able to acheive what you want to do using breaklines or something like that? I am always extremely hesitant about exploding things, as was said above it will make your drawing bigger and will make it less convenient to use.

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The general concept in Civil 3D is you don't edit the contours, you edit the surface definition.

 

You CAN extract contours from a surface, then simply change the contours. But if you simply change the contours without changing the underlying surface, you impact all the other things that you can do with a well-built surface, such as calculating volumes, creating profiles, etc.

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The general concept in Civil 3D is you don't edit the contours, you edit the surface definition.

 

You CAN extract contours from a surface, then simply change the contours. But if you simply change the contours without changing the underlying surface, you impact all the other things that you can do with a well-built surface, such as calculating volumes, creating profiles, etc.

 

That is very well put.

I know different software need contour or 3d faces but that all can be extracted from the surface to be used as a stand alone dwg.

 

my 2 cent.

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