About the Surfaces Collection (Prospector Tab)

Use the Surfaces collection in the Prospector tree to access the surfaces in a drawing. As surface objects are created, they are displayed as named surfaces under the Surfaces collection.

Right-click the Surfaces collection to do the following:

• Create a new surface.
• Import DEM data to create a surface.
• Import TIN data to create a surface.
• Turn on or off the surface preview. A check mark is displayed next to the Show Preview menu item when the preview option is selected.
• Export surface data to DEM.
• Export the surface to LandXML format.
• Refresh the view of the Surfaces collection in the Prospector tree.

If you have added a surface to the current drawing, you can expand the Surfaces collection to view the names of the surfaces or select surfaces to display a tabular list of the surfaces in the Prospector list view.

Expand an individual surface name to display the surface components, including its masks, watersheds, and definition.

Expand the Definition collection to view and add data for the surface, such as breaklines, boundaries, and contours. The data items that are displayed depend on the surface type.