How to Determine what makes up a surface?

[cattjake]

Hello,

I had a question regarding surface definitions. I have been working on a few sites that were modeled by someone who is no long with the company. And i am trying to make heads or tails of what different entitites are added to build there surface. They have multiple sets of contours and breaklines. We are running CIVIL 3D 2010, is there anyway for it to select what polylines/featurelines/countours were used for each definition entry? I can do the zoom to, but it just zooms to the surface and doesn't actually show you EXACTALLY what was added to the create the surface.

Thanks,

Jake

[AlmasSuljevic]

Just to get the discussion rolling. Zooming only works on object and will not show entities that created it. The best you can do is to either look under definition node in Prospector tab or go into Surface Properties>Defintion tab. There you may see chronologically what entitities are used for creation.  See image:

[cattjake]

Thank you for your comment,

I guess my responce is how do i highlight, know, define, what line is "test" that was added to the surface definition if it is say a 2d poly with no name?

[AlmasSuljevic]

If you go into Defintion inode in prospector tab, and click on, let's say, Breakline, down in list view you will see listed breaklines with names. Right-clicking on them will allow you to zoom in. There not much more you could do except for doing it this way. See image for reference: