I know this was published 8 years ago but, for me, this just became very important and GREATLY helpful! I am in the process of learning AutoCAD for residential design (which includes a bit of civil engineering type drawing). This will be indispensable for drawing site plans. A fellow student found this vid and we spent some class time figuring this out together. Showed our results to our instructor and he thought it was a great way to deal with this issue. I just want to say THANK YOU very much!!! (Btw, I am working with AutoCAD 2016.)
WOOOW... thanks.. you know for some reason revit is not loading on my laptop so I was condemned to use autocad to make this complicated terrain... but men ... you saved my day .. great turorial
What if you have different elevations in different spots like a real contour lines? I did hit command loft but did not select all lines and I could not make the terrain.
How did you make it work..? it keeps telling me "1 surface cannot be thickened with specified value. Object intersects itself." Please some help..! Thank you
Hey. I wanted to ask is that a standard AutoCAD version? And after you gave the topography thicknes can i export it to STL file? Thank you very much 🌺🙏😊
Hey man, awesome. I have a question. The thing I want to do, is make from a 2D map, a 3D model. Is there a way I can import the map, and make a landscape on it? Later on I know I can export that model to photoshop and then lay the 2D Map over the 3D Model as a surface. ( I have not experienced it, I have seen it on youtube). Can you tell me if the first part of my question is do-able for a beginner like me? THanks!
thx. cool, seems really easy, at least with not too complicated polylines... though my terrain is a bit more complicated. how do you deal with many hills and lower areas..., when i loft areas like that, landscape goes into many different directions and creates impossible in real life structures.... is there any way to simplify the process...? the
Make sure you don't have a polyline that has duplicate points on it...sometimes if you try to do some command with AutoCAD and your subobjects have "issues" (like duplicate segments or overlapping/self-intersecting/crossing elements/points) it can cause mathematical problems for commands to modify those objects or turn them into something else (like a 3D Solid).
Hi. Please help. I am using autocad 2012 and the subtract option. Nothing happens. Could you please give me some more instructions on it. I did everithing i tipe in SUBTRACT and select the cube than the terrain and then hit enter. Nothing.
When you use the subtract command, you click the object you want to remain first, then hit enter. Then, click on the object you want to remove, then hit enter. it should work then.
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I know this was published 8 years ago but, for me, this just became very important and GREATLY helpful! I am in the process of learning AutoCAD for residential design (which includes a bit of civil engineering type drawing). This will be indispensable for drawing site plans. A fellow student found this vid and we spent some class time figuring this out together. Showed our results to our instructor and he thought it was a great way to deal with this issue. I just want to say THANK YOU very much!!! (Btw, I am working with AutoCAD 2016.)
I even went so far as to put this on my "Favorites" bar so I can access it at will.
WOOOW... thanks.. you know for some reason revit is not loading on my laptop so I was condemned to use autocad to make this complicated terrain... but men ... you saved my day .. great turorial
The best vídeo on youtube about this topic!
You are one from the best TH-camrs
You are THE best! Saved my life!
What if you have different elevations in different spots like a real contour lines? I did hit command loft but did not select all lines and I could not make the terrain.
You are a freaking GENIOUS!!!! Infinite thanks to you buddy.
EXCELLENT explanation & tutorial. Well done! Thank you so much.
Thanks, now I can calculate the volume of earthwork
Awesome! Helped me alot! Thanks!
nicely done sir
very useful. thnx
simply the best...thanks a lot!!!!
How did you make it work..? it keeps telling me "1 surface cannot be thickened with specified value. Object intersects itself."
Please some help..!
Thank you
+Oscar Vega i just so your comment. maybe the problem has to do with the vertices of your shape, maybe are overlapped
thank you ... good & useful tutorial .
It can only deal with simple shapes once the contours start looping back on themselves or form closed loops the whole landscape gets problematic
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Hey. I wanted to ask is that a standard AutoCAD version?
And after you gave the topography thicknes can i export it to STL file? Thank you very much 🌺🙏😊
Man, it's Fucking amazing! Very practical!
helped a lot! thank you so much.
Hey man, awesome. I have a question. The thing I want to do, is make from a 2D map, a 3D model. Is there a way I can import the map, and make a landscape on it? Later on I know I can export that model to photoshop and then lay the 2D Map over the 3D Model as a surface. ( I have not experienced it, I have seen it on youtube). Can you tell me if the first part of my question is do-able for a beginner like me? THanks!
Cool
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thank you so much!
Very helpful! Thank you.
Thanks you so much!
excellent. do you have idea on how to create profile from this surface?
thx. cool, seems really easy, at least with not too complicated polylines...
though my terrain is a bit more complicated. how do you deal with many hills and lower areas..., when i loft areas like that, landscape goes into many different directions and creates impossible in real life structures.... is there any way to simplify the process...? the
thankyou thankyou so much :) .... can you send some more such video please :) like it very much
Thank you so much!
goooodddd!!! thanks...
thicken isnt working with me, it keeps telling me object intersects itself.
Make sure you don't have a polyline that has duplicate points on it...sometimes if you try to do some command with AutoCAD and your subobjects have "issues" (like duplicate segments or overlapping/self-intersecting/crossing elements/points) it can cause mathematical problems for commands to modify those objects or turn them into something else (like a 3D Solid).
good!
acad show the reply "1 surface cannot be thickened with specified value. Object intersects itself."
I can't thicken a surface with acad 2011 ?
Nice :) Thank You.
thanks good tutorial
I get the same too!
Thanks
error 98011 and 95025..What is that for?
anyone know why when i separate didn't work?
Hi. Please help. I am using autocad 2012 and the subtract option. Nothing happens. Could you please give me some more instructions on it. I did everithing i tipe in SUBTRACT and select the cube than the terrain and then hit enter. Nothing.
When you use the subtract command, you click the object you want to remain first, then hit enter. Then, click on the object you want to remove, then hit enter. it should work then.
Thanks a lot. I figured it out eventually. Yeah that was it i did not hit enter. Thanks again.
Burlacu Leonard You're welcome, it's always that one step that throws you off. :)
My thicken doesnt work