Adding Breaklines To The Surface - Autodesk CIVIL3D - CIVILDESIGNCOMP 2007 SLM CD User Manual

5.1.6

Adding Breaklines to the Surface

1. Select Ribbon: Home ⇒ Layers ⇒ Isolate.
2. Pick one of the breaklines and one of the contours from the surface to isolate the Breaklines-
Survey and C-TOPO-Survey layers.
3. Confirm that the Definition under the Surface Survey is expanded on the Prospector tab of the
Toolspace.
4. Right-click on Breaklines under the Definition and select ⇒ Add.
5. Enter a Description for the breakline set of
Collected in Field.
6. Confirm that the Type is set to Standard.
You will not use any Weeding or Supplementing factors
in this exercise. These options allow you to remove or
add vertices to breaklines respectively. These are useful
options if you have breaklines that have been over
digitized and may have thousands of extra vertices very
close together or if you need to add vertices to a
breakline that has long distances between vertices.
7. Click <<OK>>.
8. Select the Breaklines with a crossing window.
9. [Enter] to add the breaklines to the surface.
The surface is now updated to include the new breakline data.
10. Select Ribbon: Home ⇒ Layers ⇒ Unisolate to restore the
previous layer state.
11. Save the drawing.
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Chapter: Building a Survey Quality Surface
Lesson: Building Surfaces from Survey Data