Surface Contours

It is possible to create contours for a selected surface.

Select a surface.
From the ribbon bar, select Contour.
From the Create Contour window, edit the settings to define the contour display.

Create Contour

Create Contour

When creating a set of contours for a surface the following settings must be considered:

When creating a set of contours for a surface the following settings must be considered:

Surface

Surface

Contours

Contours

Set the values to determine the drawing of the contour:

Set the values to determine the drawing of the contour:

Minor Interval, defines the distance between minor contours that are drawn.
Major Frequency, defines when the major contour is drawn. Usually this setting would be set at 5 or 10.

With a minor interval of 10 and a major frequency of 5, the contours are draw every 10 metres but at every 50 metres a major contour line is drawn.

Min. Length, defines the minimum contour line length to be displayed. Any shorter lines are not displayed.
Smoothing, allows the contour lines to be smoothed with different intensity values.

Contour Styling

Contour Styling

Contour Labels

Contour Labels

To display the labels, you must switch them on in the Layer Manager.

Exporting Contours

Exporting Contours

Contours can be exported to DXF/DWG and to XML.

Set the export flag in Layer Manager to determine if the contours are written to the DXF/DWG file.