Exercise 2: Adding Point Data to a Surface

For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Contours.

This exercise continues from Exercise 1: Creating a New TIN Surface.

Import point data into the current drawing

1. Open drawing Surface-1A.dwg , which is available in the tutorials drawings folder .

   This drawing contains an empty surface definition, which is named EG.

2. Click Modify tab Ground Data panel Surface.
3. Click Surface tab Modify panel Add DataPoint Files.
4. In the Add Point File dialog box, under Format, select PENZD (Space Delimited).
5. Under Source File, click .
6. In the Select Source File dialog box, browse to the tutorial folder . Select EG-Surface-PENZD (space delimited).txt. Click Open.
7. In the Add Point File dialog box, click OK.
8. At the command line, enter ZE.

   The surface, which contains the imported point data, is displayed in the drawing.

   

To continue this tutorial, go to Exercise 3: Adding Breaklines to a Surface.