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Using Point, DEM, Contour, Breakline, and Boundary Data in Surfaces
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Working with the Terrain Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . 65
Creating Surface Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Creating Breaklines to Use in Surface Generation . . . . . . 67
Creating Contours to Use in Surface Generation . . . . . . 68
Creating Boundaries to Use in Surface Generation . . . . . . 69
Building Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Creating Finished Ground Data for Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 73
Editing Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Edit History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Creating Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Creating Contours from a Surface . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Calculating Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 5 Working with Alignments and Parcels. . . . . . . . . 83
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Working with Alignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Multi-User Alignment Database . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Drawing Alignment Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Defining an Object as a Road Alignment . . . . . . . . . 86
Making an Alignment Current . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Editing a Road Alignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Drafting Road Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Working with Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Drawing Parcel Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Defining Parcels to the Parcel Database . . . . . . . . . 94
Managing Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 6 Listing and Annotating Plans . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Listing Object Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
CAD-Based Inquiry Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 100
AutoCAD Land Desktop Inquiry Commands. . . . . . . 101
Labeling Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Label Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Editing Label Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 7 Importing and Exporting Data in LandXML Format . . . . 111
Using the LandXML Import and Export Commands . . . . . . 112
Exporting Data in LandXML Format . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Importing LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115