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Editing feature line curves

Editing feature line curves - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Editing feature line curves

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- [Narrator] Civil 3D has some specialized feature line curve editing commands that you'll want to know about. Let's take a look. The first thing I want to show you is what happens if you try using a plain AutoCAD command to modify a feature line, for example, fillet. I'm just going to type in the letter F for fillet, and I'll select this feature line. And what happens is nothing. It doesn't even recognize the object as an AutoCAD object. It keeps prompting me to just select the first object, so, right off the bat we see that AutoCAD commands just simply aren't going to work with feature lines. But that's okay, because we have specialized feature line commands that we can use. In fact, if I click this feature line, you'll see that here in the bank of edit geometry tools, there is, in fact, a fillet command. This is not the same fillet command that you would use in AutoCAD, it is specifically designed for feature lines. Now, if I launch this command, I can select a PI, and it even…

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