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Editing the surface

Editing the surface - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Editing the surface

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- [Instructor] Many times after you've created a grading surface, you'll need to tweak a few things and fix a few issues. Let's look at some examples. If we take a look at the contours we've created in this grading surface, we'll notice a few things that don't quite look right. First of all, we notice there are some weird bends in these contours, indicating there's some kind of rift in the shape of the surface that isn't quite right. And then if we look closely at the entrance, we see some pretty serious zigzagging in the contours, and I can tell you that when people see this, they are going to question, you know, what's going on here, why are there so many zigzags in the contours? Now, to take a look at what's going on, to kind of unravel the mystery, we're going to change the surface style to one that shows triangles. So I've got one here called Contours and Triangles, which is really just the same contours, but I've added the triangles in as well. So when we look at this, when we…

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