These tutorials will get you started working with land surfaces. A surface is a central object for AutoCAD Civil 3D, and can be referenced by alignments, parcels, and other objects throughout the design process.
All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorials drawings folder . If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Tutorial Data folder so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding Surfaces.
Topics in this section
- Tutorial: Creating and Adding Data to a Surface
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a TIN surface, and then add contour, breakline, and boundary data to the surface.
- Tutorial: Working with Large Surfaces
This tutorial demonstrates several features that can help you manage large surfaces efficiently in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
- Tutorial: Changing the Surface Style and Display
This tutorial demonstrates how to change and constrain the surface styles and display.
- Tutorial: Editing Surface Data
This tutorial demonstrates some common surface editing tasks, including edge swapping, TIN line deletion, and surface smoothing. You will also hide part of the surface using a hide boundary.
- Tutorial: Creating a Watershed and Water Drop Analysis
This tutorial demonstrates how to create two kinds of surface analysis: watershed and water drop.
- Tutorial: Generating Surface Volume Information
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a composite volume surface from a base surface and a comparison surface, and then perform composite volume calculations.
- Tutorial: Visualizing Surface Data
This tutorial demonstrates how to add multi-view blocks to a surface and render it using a sample of the visualization techniques included with AutoCAD Civil 3D.