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Adding Points to Surfaces

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Use the Prospector tree to add points directly to a surface model.

Note

TIN or grid volume surfaces do not support editing operations.

Adding points in this manner constitutes a surface edit, and can be enabled and disabled in the surface properties. This operation adds points to the surface definition rather than to the surface data components.

Note

If you are adding a point to a grid surface, you can add points only outside the existing border or to a hole with no points inside the surface area. This command uses the SNAP orientation (based on the spacing and orientation of the surface being edited).

Tip

To perform this operation, ensure that the surface style has triangles visibility enabled. See Surface Styles and Display.

Tutorial Exercise: Adding Point Data to a Surface

To add points

  1. In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand the surface Definition collection, right-click , and click Add Point.

  2. At the command line, you are prompted to select a point.

  3. Click on the location for the point.

    You are prompted for the elevation of the point.

  4. Specify the elevation at the command line.
  5. Optionally, continue to select other points to add, by clicking their locations.
  6. Press Enter to complete the operation.

    The points are added as Add Point or Add Grid Point operations to the Edits list view in Prospector.

    Note

    The Description column in the list view displays the coordinates and elevation for the points that were added.

Toolspace Context Menu

Prospector tab: Surfaces<surface-name> Definitionright-click EditsAdd Point

Command Line

AddSurfacePoint

AddSurfaceGridPoint


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