smooth contours

[rstiles]

good morning,

I am trying to make my contours look like the contours I do when I digitize with plines. I have very angular unnatural looking contours. I have my style set to smooth and spline curve. it helps a little. I have areas that look stepped where a straight line would be sufficient it zigzags. any help would be appreciated

[cadtag]

the contours are a result of your surface triangulation. You may need more information in the surface definition, additional edits, or add additional breaklines to control the tinn lines (and then the resulting contours)

[Michael.Shurgalla]

There is also a smooth surface feature in surface eidts. I saw a good presentation on how to use this at AU in ten practially awesome grading exaples by Eric Chappell. I think he published a users guide.

[rstiles]

thanks i will have to look that up.

[kiwigraham]

You may be able to solve the problem by "swapping edges" under your edit surface menu. It really depends how many changes you need to make, but it'll work.