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Surface Analysis
Topics in this section
- About Analyzing Surfaces
You can perform many types of surface-related analysis, including contour, directions, elevations, slopes, slope-arrows, watersheds, and water drop path. - To Perform a Surface Analysis
- About Checking a Surface for Contour Problems
Use the Check for Contour Problems utility to identify problems with contours that are drawn according to the surface style contour settings. - To Check a Surface for Contour Problems
- About Drawing Surface Water Drop Paths
Use the water drop utility to trace the path that water takes across a surface. - To Draw Surface Water Drop Paths
- About Calculating Surface Catchment Areas
Use the Catchment Area command to analyze water runoff and display the surface drainage area. - To Calculate Surface Catchment Areas
- To Identify the Shortest Vertical Distance Between Two Surfaces
- About Surface Breakline Tools
Use the Autodesk Civil 3D breakline tools to find, report, and correct intersecting breaklines in a survey database or in a surface to which the breakline geometry has been added. - To Find and Fix Crossing Surface Breaklines
- To Work With Surface Breakline Reports
- To Create an Earthwork Construction Plan
Parent topic: Surfaces