Learn about enhancements to surface workflows.
New in 2025.2
Surface editing with triangles or points enabled
- Added support to automatically enable component display when adding a surface line or adding/moving a surface point.
New in 2025.1
- Surface editing command optimisation
- Sorting the Volumes Dashboard enhancements
- Added the ability to sort alphabetically.
- Added the ability to keep the last sorted column order if a drawing is saved and reopened.
- Added the ability to export a Cut/Fill Report using the column order as sorted in Civil 3D.
New in 2025
- Added a reduced surface level of detail to improve performance when working in drawings with large surfaces. For more information, see Modify the Level of Detail of Surfaces.
- Contextual commands to change the surface level of detail added to Prospector tree, in canvas, and the ribbon.
- Default setting for Reduced Surface Level of Detail added to the Edit Feature Settings - Surface dialog box.
- Level of detail commands are available from the command line.
- AllSurfaceLODLow
- AllSurfaceLODHigh
- SurfaceLODLow
- SurfaceLODHigh
- Performance improvements when saving surface MMS files.
- The MMS file will not update if there is no surface geometry change.
- The dref surface will not update when the host drawing is saved.
- Performance improvements during multithreaded contour regeneration on both TIN and Grid surfaces.
- Opening Drawings. When the drawing contains surfaces styles using contours display component
- Surface Editing. When the drawing contains surfaces styles using contours display component
- Changing Surface Style. When the drawing contains surfaces styles using contours display component
- Surface Creation. When commands trigger the computation of contours.
- Contour Extraction from Surface.
- General performance improvements when working with surfaces.
- Improved Zoom/Pan performance for when the level of detail mode is off in Conceptual/GSF mode (shaded, and shaded with Edge).
- Surface will not regenerate if there is no surface geometry change (such as the changing name or description of a surface in the surface properties dialog box.