Importing contours AutoCAD file

Good Day:

I am not an MX expert so I will need to rely on one of my colleagues to provide you with pointers to the exact MX tools.  But in general terms, one of the challenges of producing a surface from contours is that the vertices on the contours might be very dense which results in a very high number of points in your target surface.  You can often filter these vertices by as much as 90% and not have a significant effect on your surface.

If there are tools in MX to allow you to filter the contour vertices before you extract them into a surface would be beneficial to your workflow. 

Alternatively, if you have access to Bentley Map there are some nifty tools in there for filtering the vertices of a linear element.  It can take an entire selection set of your contours and apply a filter and dramitcally reduce the number of vertices.  Then when you import to a surface it will have lots fewer points with a corresponding reduction in file size.

Good Day:

I am not an MX expert so I will need to rely on one of my colleagues to provide you with pointers to the exact MX tools.  But in general terms, one of the challenges of producing a surface from contours is that the vertices on the contours might be very dense which results in a very high number of points in your target surface.  You can often filter these vertices by as much as 90% and not have a significant effect on your surface.

If there are tools in MX to allow you to filter the contour vertices before you extract them into a surface would be beneficial to your workflow. 

Alternatively, if you have access to Bentley Map there are some nifty tools in there for filtering the vertices of a linear element.  It can take an entire selection set of your contours and apply a filter and dramitcally reduce the number of vertices.  Then when you import to a surface it will have lots fewer points with a corresponding reduction in file size.