Use the Surface Creation settings in the Edit Feature Settings - Surface dialog box to specify surface-related settings before you create surfaces.
For example, before creating or importing surfaces, you may want to specify the default surface style and default surface label styles.
If a closed lock appears in the Lock column for a property, the property is locked at a higher level of the Settings tree and cannot be changed at this level.
If you change a property value, a check mark appears in the Override column. This override is also reflected in the property table for related objects higher up the Settings tree, where an arrow appears in the Child Override column.
To the change surface creation settings
- Do one of the following:
- To edit settings for all surface-related commands: In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, right-click the Surface collection and click Edit Feature Settings.
- To edit settings for a specific command: In Toolspace, on the Settings tab, expand the Commands collection under the Surface collection. Right-click the name of the command for which you want to change settings and click Edit Command Settings.
The Edit Feature Settings - Surface dialog box is displayed.
- Expand the Surface Creation property group.
- To specify the default surface type, edit the Surface Default Type settings.
- To specify the default grid surface spacing and orientation, edit the following settings:
- Grid Surface X-Spacing
- Grid Surface Y-Spacing
- Grid Surface Orientation
- To specify the default name format for a surface, expand the Default Name Format property group and edit the Surface Name Template setting.
- Click Apply.
