Adding Contour Data to a Surface

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About Using Contour Data in Surfaces
Contours are graphical illustrations of surface elevation changes. You can create a surface from contours drawn as 2D or 3D polylines where each unique polyline contains points that are all at the same elevation.
To Add Contour Data to a Surface
About Weeding and Supplementing Factors for Contours
Use weeding and supplementing to add or remove vertices along a contour.
About Supplementing Missing Contour Information
When you create a model from contours and then generate contours from this model, in some cases, AutoCAD Civil 3D may not generate the same set of contours.
To Edit Contours
About Inserting Contour Data Into a Drawing
Insert contour data into the drawing as AutoCAD polylines using the Insert to Drawing command.
To Insert Contour Data Into a Drawing

Parent topic: Adding and Editing Surface Data