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Chapter 5 Working with Surfaces
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You can use the Manage Styles tab to save contour styles to an
external file and also to load contour styles from an external file.
This is helpful when you want to use the same contour styles in
more than one drawing or in different projects.
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You can click in the Preview window on the Contour Style
Manager and adjust the view angle of the previewed contours by
moving your pointing device.
To create contours from a surface
Steps
Use
to look up
1
From the Terrain menu, choose Create Contours
to display the Create Contours dialog box.
Create Contours from a
Surface
2
Select the surface for which you want to create
contours. By default, the current surface is
displayed in the Surface box.
3
Specify the elevation range for which you want
to create contours.
4
Specify at which vertical scale you want to create
contours.
5
Specify the minor and major contour intervals.