In the process of making a surface model, you can easily select the figures to use as breaklines.
Tutorial Exercise: Creating Surface Breaklines from Figures
- In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, right-click Figures
Create Breaklines.
- In the Create Breaklines dialog box, click the Select Surface drop-down list and click a surface name or click
to open the New Surface dialog box, where you can create a new surface. Figures are displayed in the list view part of the dialog box.
- In the Breakline column, click the check box next to the figures that you want as breaklines. Optionally, to prevent a breakline from being created from a figure, in the list view, click the check box and set the value to No.
Note: Click

to set the breakline property for all figures to Yes. Click

to clear all the breakline property check boxes.
- Click OK to create the breaklines.
- In the Add Breaklines dialog box, enter a Description for the breakline operation, specify the Type of breaklines, or specify the Mid-ordinate distance for any breaklines that have curved segments.
- Click OK. The breaklines are inserted into to the drawing, or if necessary updated if they already exist in the drawing.