Quick Answer: How do you add contours in Civil 3D?

How do you show contour lines on a surface Civil 3D?

Check the Surface Style.

  1. In Toolspace Palette > Prospector Tab > Surfaces.
  2. Select the working surface > right click> “Surface Properties…”
  3. Information tab, check the surface style settings by selecting the button next to the surface style: On the Contours tab, make sure the correct Contour Intervals are set up.

How do you get smooth contours in Civil 3D?

To smooth the contours, go into the style the surface is using and, on the contours tab, toggle the option to smooth the contours to True. Once you have this toggled on, you can select the type of smoothing you want to apply to the surface as well as how aggressive you want the contour smoothing to be.

How do you make a contour map?

Open Google Earth. Click File | Open, select the KML file, and click Open. The contour map is loaded and displayed over the aerial photo.



How To Get Contour Lines On Google Earth?

  1. Open Surfer.
  2. Create the map. …
  3. If available, the coordinate system information is automatically entered for the Contours layer.

How do you edit contours in Civil 3D?

Grip-Editing Contours in Civil 3D

  1. Select your surface. …
  2. In the Extract Objects from Surface dialog box, clear all check boxes except for Major Contours and Minor Contours. …
  3. Click on a polyline representing your major and another representing your minor contours. …
  4. Add the polyline contours to your surface.
  5. Grip edit.
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