Creating Surfaces in a Drawing

Before you create surfaces in a drawing, set up your environment to take advantage of the settings and options AutoCAD Civil 3D offers for automatically labeling surfaces and surface objects.

To work even more effectively, save the styles in a drawing template. For more information, see Creating a Drawing Template for Surfaces.

Create a new drawing		Create a drawing based on the desired template.
Select surface creation settings		Use surface settings to specify the default behavior for surface-related commands.
Select default surface styles		Surface styles control the way a surface is displayed in a drawing.
Select surface label and table styles		Surface label and table styles control the way a surface’s labels and tables are displayed.
Create a new surface or import a surface		Create Grid or TIN surface or import a surface from a TIN or DEM file. Watch video: Create a TIN Surface (1 minute 2 seconds)