Creating Civil 3D Surfaces from Selected Drawing Objects

On occasion a Civil 3D project may require data from a “legacy” drawing. This might be a DWG file for which you do not know (or have) the original authoring application. In cases like this, Civil 3D can re-create design data from drawing entities. In this session we’ll learn how to build a surface model from selected objects.

[lztoniolo]

How much I miss a video from you Jeff. You are simply the best human to explain this wonderful piece of software to another human.

[TronFan]

Fantastic! Straight to the point, excellent audio and exactly what I needed!

[michafranczak]

One of the best, clear and easy tutorials out there! Thank you!

[sergiorivaslamas]

Impresive use of civil 3d tools. Eng. Bartels.!!!
I didnt see the motivating way to use such range of options to achieve one goal.
I am trying to keep UP with your videos in your blog.
We wish you continue teaching a World of students eager to fully understand and apply this wonderful software.
I know is to much to ask. But I wish you can model a full project of a rural road from the very beginning to the very end. In your unique way of teaching.

Thank you very much.
Congratulations from Bolivia plurinational state of.

[Steve_Just_Steve]

Your videos are incredibly good and easy to follow. I've never seen anyone present a software's features and the workarounds for the features it's lacking as well as you can. Do you have videos on controlling layers properties separately in different MODEL viewports? Say if I wanted to view certain layers in a 3D view and different layers in a 2D view at the same time side by side. Or is it even possible to do Civil 3D 2018?
Thanks for all you share.

[MrJamesmac]

I'll add to the previous posts and just say thanks again for you and your team.

[kaackster]

another great informative and instructional video. great to have you back on youtube again. looking forward to many more.

[willymejia]

good video on construction of surfaces through objects thanks for sharing greetings from Peru

[civildesigntube]

Hellow jeff I've got alot from your videos its clear and complete to understand thank you.
And then please make one on surface modeling with 3d faces

[fcamargo]

Jeff your vídeo is amazing.!! Thanks🙏🏾🙏🏾

[nsikakobongeyakz]

Thanks a lot for the simplicity of your video

[MrJamesmac]

oh yeah....LINEWORKSHRINKWRAP command. Never seen that before. Will be adding to the toolset.

[zagvot]

Another great video from you...
thanks for the free tutorial...

[naserazad]

Thank you very nice and clear and easy to follow.

[andykeller]

You don't have to do the data shortcut trick. If you go to surface properties -> definition -> build -> and change the "Copy deleted dependent objects" to yes you can delete all you want.

[garywu]

please do one more, how to make one from points/test with x, y, z

[bastange]

Great video. Just one thing to note though. Isolating layer did not hide my other layers for me. It just locked them. Selecting would however for some reason also select the layers I did not want selected.

[mdatifrahman]

How to convert polyface mesh to surface in civil 3d
please need help.

[mdatifrahman]

I have polyface and polyline both in this drawing

[matejkostial]

Hi Jeff,

thanks for the video
could I have just one question? Is there a difference between selecting the lines as "Drawing Objects" and "Breaklines"?

Thank you in advance!