From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Professional
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Use styles and settings - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: AutoCAD Civil 3D Certified Professional
Use styles and settings
- [Instructor] Now let's make a new surface style, and edit those settings. I'll right click on the surface we've made and choose surface properties. I want us to make a copy of this surface style and do our own changes. So I'm going to right click on this down arrow and choose copy current selection. What we're going to do is create a surface style that's five foot and 25 foot interval on the contours. And we're going to turn off the border. So first thing we're going to do is make sure that we name this appropriately. So five and 25. Again we can change this down here, our description to match. Alright, let's go to the contour tab, and let's choose contour intervals. Alright now our default is set to two and 10, so I'll change two to five. And it automatically updates our major interval to 25. Let's continue and see what this looks like. Alright, there's our contours and this is a hilly area and this might be the best option for contour interval. And now since the border is not…
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