Contours from shp files...what is going on with the elevations?

[shannonbeth]

What happened to being able to import polygons as closed polylines for shp files that maintained their elevation? I went from using 2011, to 2014 and now i have to query data in order to get contours from Pennsylvania' mapping website to come in with elevations? Seems like it just became a longer process, maybe ill just skip it and use the las file instead. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas for me? Can you confirm this change - or am i missing a step as it has been a while since i imported from anothe rsource in order to get surface data?!?!? Thanks!

[ToddRogers-WPM]

Go to Surfaces in the ribbon and choose Create Surface From GIS Data.

[antoniovinci]

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shannonbeth wrote:

Can you confirm this change

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No change there, sir.

Still you can import polygons as closed polylines at their own Z, as long as you have a "true" shape 3D i.e. carrying physical elevations.

If you have a 2D shape with elevations within the Object Data, you put the contours on the right height only by a "draw query".