Mastering Snippet: Surface Borders

In case you haven’t purchased a copy of Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010, I want to give you a few snippets from the book in the coming weeks. The snippets are what I believe are some keys to learning, and mastering, Civil 3D.

This snippet is from Chapter 5, “The Ground Up: Surfaces in Civil 3D.”

In the previous exercise, you fixed some minor breakline issues. However, in the data presented, the bigger issue is still the number of inappropriate triangles that are being drawn along the edge of the site. It is often a good idea to leave these triangles untouched during the initial build of a surface, because they serve as pointers to topographical data (such as monumentation, control, utility information, and so on) that may otherwise go unnoticed without a visit to the site.

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