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Modifying grading objects

Modifying grading objects - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Modifying grading objects

- [Instructor] As you might guess, editing grading options is going to be an important skill when performing grading design. Let's see what tools are available. The first thing you can do with editing grading objects is to simply edit the feature line that they're based on. If you watched the previous video, you saw how we constructed this pond starting with this feature line as the basis. Now, everything is chained together. This grading object was built off the feature line, this grading object was built off of the previous grading object, and so on. So, everything is linked to this one feature line. So, you can modify grading objects by simply modifying the feature lines that they have come from. So, if I do something as simple as grip editing this corner, the software is going to automatically recalculate those grading objects for me based on any edits that I make, whether it's by graphically changing the grips or by using one of the tools that's specialized for editing feature…

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