AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Contours (Lines / Arc) - How To Create Good Surface

Feb 14, 2013

So I received a whole bunch of contours from an architect.  They are lines and arc.  big sweeping arcs.  Whats the best and fastest way to create a good surface.  I can change them globally to a polyline but I need to add vertices like every 5 or 10 feet to get a good surface.  Can I select multiple feature lines (after converted) to add vertices?

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I created a new surface, pasted my OG surface into it, set the build to exclude elevations less than and greater than but my surface still is showing every contour range. I want to only show contours at elevations of  371.5 and 370.5

Is it because it's a pasted surface?

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We've tried applying the method laid out here: [URL] ........ (and the link referenced in the bottom) but are still having trouble getting the surface to work.  We've tried offsetting as little as 0.25' and as much as 5' with the feature line draped over the existing surface, but it seemed that the greater the offset, the greater the discrepancy.

Just to make sure we even tried that correctly - should the breaklines that we add be standard or non-destructive?  (I've tried it both ways with little success either way, so I don't know if it matters much in this instance, but perhaps for future reference it would work.)

I've attached a screen shot of our surfaces.  The pink and green lines are the proposed contours, the white dashed are the existing.  The outer red line is offset 0.25'.  As I've mentioned, we've tried offsetting various amounts with decreasing success.

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Dec 10, 2013

This is the first time I have imported a .dgn file into Civil. The drawing contains contours lines with Z elevation data. When I create a surface using this geometry (polylines + some lines) the surface seems to be scaled in the Z axis by 12.

For example pline (from dgn) is at elevation 46' but the Civil3D surface is 552'

I assume this is a setting in the Surfaces dialog box, but I cannot find it.

Also the elevation field in Properties from the dgn contours is weird. For example, in one area the (pline) contours display -28', 26', -24', -22', -20', -18' in Properties but Civil3D interprets this as a downward slope - which is the actual field conditions. I don't understand the conversion going on here.

The geometry of the pline and contours generated from the surface seem to line up in a side or isometric view (see attachment).

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Nov 6, 2013

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I haven't been able to find a way to automatically just multiple labels on all of the contours at an interval in one fell swoop, so I started trying to program one...but then I got stuck with that, too.

Does any built-in method of doing what I want to do, or do I need to continue pursuing a programmatic solution?

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I have a surface with 1' and 5' contours. In model space the surface behaves normally - I can select it, add labels, change the properties, etc.

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Jul 15, 2013

Ok we have 6 identical PC's all with the same drivers, same support paths, same plotter paths. Only one PC will not print surface contours. I can open the same file(s) on any other PC and the things print w/o issue. This one PC will not print the srf contours on only a few files. Most files there is no issue...

Quite odd that it's only one machine messing up with a few files that another machine has no issue with.

Win 7 64, Xeon ES165@3.2Ghz,
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May 14, 2013

I built a corridor, then corridor surface.  Then I changed the corridor onto a different profile.  I noticed that the contours at the end were going crazy: the new profile ended before the corridor and everything was going down to zero elevation.  So I went to edit my corridor region.  I enter the required station, and my contours disappear.

Observations so far:

If I set the end of the corridor region to 2+377.91 to  2+384.54 inclusive, the contours on the surface disappear.  The triangles and boundary still display, and the surface gives a Z reading when I hover the mouse over it.  If I set the region end to something above 2+384.54 or something below 2+377.91 the contours reappear.

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However, with the exception of one of the inner boundaries, some contours are showing up inside the boundaries as well as partial contours. Why are the contours visible and how do I stop them from showing up?

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I have an existing surface and I need to creat a surface using contour lines of a at the high point on a spillway to the bottom of my pond to calculate volumes. How do I do this?

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My question is since the engineers at my work do not how to use the software, and I am not an engineer, making the profile look a certain way sometimes needs to be tweeked by me.... How to alter the proposed surface?I am pretty sure that feature lines cannot cross contours that I have selected to create the surface?

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attached is Roadway.dwg file

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May 3, 2013

I have tried multiple types of hide boundaries,etc. for this, and cant find a solution.  I'm sure it is very simple, but..

I need a corridor that transitions from 2% sideslope to 0% sideslope.  This transition occurs in a horizontal AND vertical curve.  I understand I could use EOP alignments, profiles, etc to achieve this.  I dont have the time or civil3D knowledge to figure this out on a friday afternoon...

So... my plan is to not apply the transition, and just hide the contours in the transition area and sketch them in by hand.  I want to corridor surface to remain so that when other profiles are created from this surface it is still somewhat accurate (instead of removing this portion of corridor surface, and adding simple contours to the surface).  I just want the surface hidden for +/- 50'. 

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May 2, 2012

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Mar 1, 2013

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The only thing i need to create a cut and fill model is one or several ground surfaces (existing ground, earth layers, rock etc. whatever i need) and a closed polyline/3Dpolyline that represents the level I want my cut and/or fill model.

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1. Novapoint is quite unstable and crashes alot

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3. Novapoint does not automaticly combine the start surfaces with the modeled cut/fill surface

4. A large surface made out of 3d-faces demands alot of computer power 

So I want to how I do the same that Novapoint does for me in Civil 3D? (I have access to Civil 3D 2007-2013 depending on which one you're using)I know I can take the 3Dfaces i created in Novapoint and make a surface in Civil 3D with them but I want to exclude Novapoint completely.

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