Darron,
You can copy a surface but there are some sublte behaviors that are
different between "Copy" and "Crtl-C/Copy Selection". The second is
basically "Wblock" behavior. There is a topic in the help file called
"Supported AutoCAD Commands" that you may want to take a look at. This
documents the supported AutoCAD commands and some notes as to the expected
behavior for all the Civil 3D Objects.
If you select the surface and use "Ctrl C or Copy Selection" and then paste
it to the original coordinates, you should get a copy of the surface with
all your edits preserved. However, you will also get copies of the
breaklines and COGO points (if they were used in the definition) - not sure
if that is what you expect. I did notice some pecular behavior if you Copy
the surface and transform the location of the surface.
Try this and see if you get the expected surface definition
(Surface->Properties).
Daniel Philbrick
ISD Civil Development
"Darron Agawa" wrote in message
news:40354515$1_1@newsprd01...
> What's the best way to copy a surface. I need to paste surfaces and don't
> want to accidentally lose the edits I've already done to one surface.
>
> The help files mention checking a surface out from the associated project,
> but I don't find that very efficient. Why do we need to keep checking
them
> in and out in order to do this? Why not just a right-click "Copy" like in
> LDT TME?
>
> --
> Darron K. Agawa
> Civil Engineer
> Town of Windsor
>
>