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Creating a Surface From a TIN File

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Use the Create Surface From TIN dialog box to create a surface by importing TIN format data.

Importing a TIN file creates a surface object on which you can perform all the standard data operations and editing. The import operation is displayed as the operation type Import Surface. See Understanding the Surface Definition.

You can use this command to import a TIN file from an Autodesk Land Desktop project. To import the TIN file, the accompanying PNT point file must exist in the same source directory.

To import a surface from a TIN file

  1. Click Home tabCreate Ground Data panelSurfaces drop-downCreate Surface From TIN.At the Command prompt, enter CreateSurfaceFromTIN.
  2. In the Create Surface From TIN dialog box, browse to the location of the TIN file and select it.
  3. Click Open to add the surface to the current drawing.

    The surface name is displayed under the Surfaces collection in the Prospector tree. For information about adding data to the surface, see Adding and Editing Surface Data.

Ribbon

Home tab Create Ground Data panel Surfaces drop-down Create Surface From TIN

Menu

Surfaces menu Create Surface From TIN

Toolspace Context Menu

Prospector tab: right-click SurfacesCreate Surface from TIN

Command Line

CreateSurfaceFromTIN

Dialog Box

Create Surface From TIN (standard file selection dialog box)


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