Creating Surfaces
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About Creating Surfaces
You can create a surface that comprises a combination of points, breaklines, boundaries, and contours.
About Creating a TIN Surface
A TIN surface comprises the triangles that form a triangulated irregular network.
To Create a TIN Surface
To Create a Surface From a TIN File
About Creating a Grid Surface
A grid surface comprises points that lie on a regular grid.
To Create a Grid Surface
To Create a Grid Surface From a DEM
About Creating a TIN Volume Surface
A TIN volume surface is a composite of points in a base surface and comparison surface.
To Create a TIN Volume Surface
About Creating a Grid Volume Surface
A grid volume surface is a difference grid surface based on user-specified base and comparison surfaces as well as grid spacing and orientation.
To Create a Grid Volume Surface
To Create Surface References
To Create a Surface From GIS Data
To Create a Surface from Point Cloud Data
About Creating a Cropped Surface
Use the Create Cropped Surface command to create a surface that is a copy of a polygonal area of a source surface.
To Create a Cropped Surface
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Surfaces