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Surface display styles

Surface display styles - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Surface display styles

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- [Instructor] Let's look a little closer at surface display styles. Remembering back, you build a surface, first starting out with an empty container, and then just adding information to it. The surface display style determines how that information is represented back to us, so the options that we have there are everything from the 10 lines that we see now to contours to gridded map or elevation changes, and so on, so let's look at the service properties and look at some of the out of the box template styles that we have. We're currently looking at contours and triangles. If we want to see how this is built, we're going to use this button here, and this will edit the current style that's listed here on the left, and that works for any time you see this in simple 3D, that's what's going to happen. Some simple things about the information, the name of it, just so we can find it and know what we're going to be displaying, description, very straightforward. Who created it, so since this…

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