Surface Analysis

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About Analyzing Surfaces
You can perform many types of surface-related analysis, including contour, directions, elevations, slopes, slope-arrows, watersheds, and water drop path.
To Perform a Surface Analysis
About Checking a Surface for Contour Problems
Use the Check for Contour Problems utility to identify problems with contours that are drawn according to the surface style contour settings.
To Check a Surface for Contour Problems
About Drawing Surface Water Drop Paths
Use the water drop utility to trace the path that water takes across a surface.
To Draw Surface Water Drop Paths
About Calculating Surface Catchment Areas
Use the Catchment Area command to analyze water runoff and display the surface drainage area.
To Calculate Surface Catchment Areas
To Identify the Shortest Vertical Distance Between Two Surfaces
About Surface Breakline Tools
Use the AutoCAD Civil 3D breakline tools to find, report, and correct intersecting breaklines in a survey database or in a surface to which the breakline geometry has been added.
To Find and Fix Crossing Surface Breaklines
To Work With Surface Breakline Reports

Parent topic: Surfaces