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Perform a surface analysis

Perform a surface analysis - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Perform a surface analysis

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- [Instructor] In the last video we ran a slope analysis on our finished ground surface. Let's take a look at how to display those results on screen. The answer is actually really simple. All we need to do is select the surface go to surface properties and choose a style for our surface that will display those analysis results. So I'll go to the information tab and I'm going to choose a style called slope banding 2D. Now to show you why that style works, I'll go ahead and click the edit icon here and we'll take a look inside of that style. And the key is on the display tab. You'll notice on the display tab, if I scroll down near the bottom, the slopes component is turned on. Now there is another part to this. If I go to the analysis tab and expand slopes, we see some of the behavioral settings that are going to affect how the analysis is run. Color scheme which if you recall, from the last video we went and edited…

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