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Working with Split Point Resolution

Working with Split Point Resolution - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Working with Split Point Resolution

- [Instructor] To fully understand how feature lines interact, you need to understand split point resolution. Let's take a look. I've got two feature lines in this drawing, one that's red and one that's green, and what I'm going to do is raise up this green feature line, I'm going to use the raise/lower command, and let's raise it up a value of 10 feet. As you would expect, and as we learned a few videos ago, the change in this feature line has affected this feature line. So the green is driving the red, the red is following the green. Now, let's make a change to the red feature line. I'm going to again use raise/lower, but this time I'm going to lower it 10 feet, so minus ten. Watch carefully, watch the green feature line. It stays right where it is. Even though we've modified the red feature line, the green feature line was not affected. It's kind of like, no matter what happens, the green feature line wins. It gets to keep its elevations, or cause the other feature line to adopt…

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