After watching the PowerCivil tutorial ( http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Community/eSeminars/Civil/PowerCivil+for+North+America.htm) I can create a pad. When adding a grading area around the pad, as shown in the tutorial, by using the "edit/new element" command with "slope/offset from element" and "entire element" I get resulting jagged contours (see attached).
Any ideas on where I might be going wrong?
Well, that'll be the last time I rely on my memory :-)
You are correct.
When I run the wizard it assigns a boundary feature to the building. Not a big deal to change, now that I know how, but seems as though it could be set within the wizard.
Thanks again.
Thanks, you are correct. I thought I was setting the inner up as a breakline but I found the Change Attributes command and sure enough the pad was a boundary.
Now my question for my next question: Are pads set up automatically as a boundary element in the wizard or can I change it to a breakline during creation? Seems that the option would be in the "Surface Type" setting but I can't find it.
Hi,
as suggested earlier - the internal element is a "Boundary" DTM feature and the external element is a "breakline" DTM feature.
These need to be reversed and all will be fine.