Civil3d 2009 Contour Lines

[dmallette]

I have been using AutoCAD since R14 but have never had to do civil drawings dealing with contour lines.

 

I am new to Civil3d and am starting with Civil3d 2009. I am having some trouble, which I attempted to stop by purchasing a few books to help with my learning of this program.

 

I have elevation points and am needing to get contour lines on a civil drawing and can not seem to find how in any of these books to do so.

 

I've see how to do it from google earth to civil3d 2009 but google earth is outdated and majorly off on it's elevations.

 

ANY assistance will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you,

 

Dewey Mallette

[BIGAL]

If you have Autocad`"points" these can be read straight in to form a DTM go to "General" toolspace Survey definition pick "points" done!

 

Otherwise do you have a txt file with 3d points use the "Points" option to read the txt file and then you can make a point group that you contour.

 

hope this helps

[dmallette]

I created points in Civil3d 09 using Create Points Misc - Manual.

 

What's the best way to enter them using AutoCAD?

I'm new to 3d completely. I've done basic civil drawings

in the past and usually manually entered points using a

circle on a grid then mtext the elevation of each point.

[lpseifert]

In what format is your point data, an ascii/text file?

 

Under Help, there are a number of tutorials for Civil 3D, you may want to look at the Points and Surfaces tutorials.

[rustysilo]

After establishing what format your points are in as queried by lpseifert you will need to get the points imported, create a point group, and then create a surface to add the point group to. Then you should have your contours.

[CyberAngel]

The catch here is that you don't create contours per se in C3D; you create a complete surface. You can show a set of contours associated with the surface by editing the surface style.

[dan0123]

How do ylou post a thread pertaining to similar information?