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Creating a New Grading Group

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Use the Prospector tab of Toolspace to create a new grading group.

Grading groups are used to organize gradings into named collections for surface creation and volume computations.

You can choose whether to automatically create a surface from the grading group, and you can identify a base surface for volume calculations.

You can also create new grading groups while using the Grading Creation Tools command.

To create a new grading group

  1. In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand Sites, then expand the site to which you want to add the new grading group.
  2. Right-click Grading Groups Create Grading Group.
  3. In the Create Grading Group dialog box, enter a name and an optional description for the grading group.
  4. Optionally, to create a surface for the grading group, select Automatic Surface Creation to activate additional options for the output surface and the base surface. It also creates a surface in the Surfaces collection in the Prospector tree.
    Note

    When you create a surface using the Automatic Surface Creation option, the Grading Group is listed on the Definition tab of that surface’s Properties dialog box.

  5. Optionally, if you plan to do any calculations of cut and fill volumes for the grading group surface, select Volume Base Surface and select the base surface from the list.
  6. Click OK.

Toolspace Context Menu

Prospector tab: Right-click Grading Groups collection Create Grading Group

Command Line

CreateGradingGroup

Dialog Box

Create Grading Group


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