Understanding surface styles

Importing our survey data and creating our surface models for sheet preparation is one thing (which we accomplished in the previous section). Understanding what we’re looking at by applying different surface styles is a completely different ballgame.

In this section, we’ll familiarize ourselves with the various surface styles available to us and learn how to display our surfaces under different circumstances.

For this section, let’s leave the Survey Model.dwg file and open the Survey Model_DisplayStyles_Start.dwg file located in the Practical Autodesk Civil 3D 2024\Chapter 6 subfolder. Once it’s open, you will notice that it should look very similar to where we left off in the Survey Model.dwg file.

Note

Since we will be running various tests on the new file we have opened, it’s best practice to leave the original as is to avoid introducing any type of file corruption. The common practice for setting up these...