Surfaces Command Reference

The following table lists the surface-related Autodesk Civil 3D commands and briefly describes their functionality.

Command

Description

AddContourLabeling Adds multiple surface contour labels at points of intersection with contour label line
AddContourLabelingGroup Adds multiple surface contour labels at a set interval
AddContourLabelingSingle Adds a single surface contour label
AddEarthwork Inserts labels in a grid and tables that contain information about the volume of the earthwork between two TIN surfaces
AddSpotElevLabelsOnGrid Adds a spot elevation label on grid

AddSurfaceBoundaries

Adds a boundary to an existing surface

AddSurfaceBreaklines

Adds a breakline to an existing surface

AddSurfaceContours

Adds contours to an existing surface

AddSurfaceDEMFile

Adds a DEM file to an existing surface

AddSurfaceDrawingObjects

Adds points from AutoCAD objects

AddSurfaceGridPoint

Adds a grid point to an existing surface

AddSurfaceLabels Invokes a labeling tool used to add slope elevations or slope labels

AddSurfaceLine

Adds a new TIN line to an existing surface

AddSurfacePoint

Adds a point directly to the surface

AddPointFile

Imports a point file into an existing surface

AddSurfacePointGroup

Adds a point group to the surface definition

AddSurfaceSlopeLabel

Adds a slope label to a surface

AddSurfaceSpotElevLabel

Adds a spot elevation label to a surface

BreaklineTool

Identifies and fixes any intersecting breaklines in a drawing, survey figure, or survey database

CatchmentArea

Displays catchment regions and calculates the area of catchment regions

CheckForContourProblems

Identifies problems with contours

CreateCropSurface

Creates a surface that is a copy of the selected polygonal area of another surface

CreateSurface

Creates a TIN or grid terrain or volume surface

CreateSurfaceComposite

Calculates a composite volume between two surfaces

CreateSurfaceFromGIS

Imports data from a GIS datastore to create an Autodesk Civil 3D surface

CreateSurfaceFromPointCloud

Creates a TIN surface from points within RCS format point cloud scan files and RCP format point cloud project files

CreateSurfaceFromTIN

Creates a TIN surface from a TIN data file

CreateSurfaceGridFromDEM

Creates a grid surface from a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) file

CreateSurfaceReference

Creates a surface reference

CreateSurfaceMask

Creates a mask on a surface

CreateSurfaceStyle

Creates a new surface style

CreateSurfaceWaterdrop

Creates a water drop path on the surface

CreateSurfCntrLabelLine

Adds a contour label to a surface

DeleteSurfaceGridPoint

Deletes a point from a grid surface

DeleteSurfaceLine

Deletes a TIN line from a surface

DeleteSurfacePoint

Deletes points from a TIN surface to remove inaccurate or unnecessary data

DeleteSurfaceSlopeLabel

Deletes a slope label

DrapeImage Drapes an image onto a surface

EditSurfacePaste

Pastes a surface into the current surface

EditSurfacePoint

Modifies a surface point

EditSurfaceProperties

Edits the properties of a surface

EditSurfaceSettings

Displays the Edit Feature Settings - Surface dialog box

EditSurfaceStyle

Edits the style of an existing surface

EditSurfaceSwapEdge

Swaps the direction of two triangle faces

ExportSurfaceToSolid

Converts TIN surfaces to AutoCAD solids

MinimizeSurfaceFlatAreas

Minimizes the flat areas on a surface created from contours
MinimumDistBetweenSurfaces Identifies the shortest vertical distance between two surfaces

ModifySurfaceContourLabels

Modifies a contour label style

ModifySurfaceSlopeLabel

Modifies a slope label style

ModifySurfSpotElevLabel

Modifies a spot elevation label style

MoveBlocksToAttribElev

Moves a block to an elevation value specified in one of its nested attribute values

MoveBlocksToSurface

Moves a block object to a surface elevation

MoveTextToElevation Moves text to the elevation corresponding to its numeric value

MoveSurfacePoint

Moves a surface point

PublishSurfaces

Publishes surfaces to Autodesk Docs to reference into an Autodesk Revit model

RaiseLowerSurface

Raises or lowers the entire surface

RebuildSurface

Rebuilds a surface

ReportSurfaceVolume

Displays composite volume information for two surfaces

SimplifySurface

Simplifies a surface by removing points

SmoothSurface

Smooths the surface

StageStorage

Calculates incremental and cumulative volumes of a basin from a surface, using either a surface or polylines to define the basin

SurfaceModifyGridPoint

Modifies grid surface points

SurfaceExportToDem

Exports surface data to a DEM file

SurfaceExtractObjects

Extracts selected components from a surface

VolumesDashboard

Calculates cut, fill, and net volumes for volume surfaces and bounded areas within those surfaces