Exercise 1: Editing The Surface Style - Autodesk CIVIL3D - CIVILDESIGNCOMP 2007 SLM CD Tutorials Manual

Surface styles are managed the way all object styles are managed in AutoCAD
Civil 3D, by using the Toolspace Settings tree. All objects have a standard
object style grouping on the Settings tree, called an object style collection.
You can create, edit, copy, and delete the styles for an object.
Surface styles define how the surface components are displayed in the drawing.
If you want to change the appearance of a component, either apply a different
style or edit the style.
The surface styles contain the following component parameters and component
display settings for the creation of surface data objects:
Borders
Contours
display
Grid
Points
Triangles
Watersheds
Analysis
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Surface Styles and
Display.

Exercise 1: Editing the Surface Style

In this exercise, you will hide the display of the points on the surface and turn
on the display of depression contours.
Depression contours form closed loops around areas of descending elevation.
These are areas where lakes or ponds can form if the rainfall and soil conditions
are right.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Surface Styles and
Visualization.
Edit the surface style
1 Open Surface-3.dwg, which is located in the
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Interior and exterior border and datum display
Minor, major, depression, and user-defined contour lines
Primary and secondary grid display
All surface points for the TIN or Grid surfaces
TIN face information
Watershed analysis display
Directions, elevations, slopes, and slope arrows
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