Mastering AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012

Working with Grading Feature Lines

There are two types of feature lines: corridor feature lines and grading feature lines. Corridor feature lines are discussed in Chapter 9, “Basic Corridors,” and grading feature lines are the focus of this chapter. It’s important to note that grading feature lines can be extracted from corridor feature lines, and you can choose whether or not to dynamically link them to the host object.

As discussed in Chapter 4, “Surfaces,” terrain modeling can be defined as the manipulation of triangles created by connecting points and vertices to achieve Delaunay triangulation. In Land Desktop (LDT) and other software, this is often done with the use of native 3D polylines. In Civil 3D, the creation of the feature line object ...