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Creating a feature line

Creating a feature line - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Creating a feature line

- [Instructor] So now that we understand what feature lines are and how they interact with one another, how sights play a role with feature lines, let's go ahead and create a feature line in our next exercise here. 12-0-2 Feature Line Create. And in this drawing we see three circles that have been numbered. We're going to use those to draw our feature line. So from the home ribbon create design panel, we have the ability in the middle left, feature line, create feature line. And so, as we've discussed, it will ask us about which site to put it in. We can create a new site, or we can also place it in no site at all. This one we're going to leave in the Creek site or container. Which style, what to name it. Here's an interesting fact about feature lines: they're one of the few simple 3D objects that you don't have to name. Naming comes into play to make it somewhat unique, but again, remember that feature lines are very advanced. They're 3D polylines on steroids. Have you ever named…

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