How to hide a surface layer in viewport

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to hide a surface layer in viewport.

I created a surface from a point cloud, now I'd like to have two layout viewport, where on of them only will have the surface displayed.

Is that doable?

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> I created a surface from a point cloud

Are you speaking about a Civil 3D surface? Or did you connect to data via _MAPCONNECT?

• In first case you can VP-Freeze the layer of the surface
• In second case you can create a different map and use command _MAPASSOCVPWITHMAP to assign the each map to a viewport (and so assign a map that does not contain the surface to the viewport you do not want to see it).

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Hi Alfred,

Thank you for your reply.

I use AutoCAD Map 3D. I loaded a point cloud using _MAPPOINTCLOUDMANAGER command, created a point cloud using .xyz data, then added to a map and after that I created a surface using _MAPSURFACEMANAGER command and added it to a map.

By doing so the newly created surface appears in the Display Manager list of layers.

I've got a question with regards to _MAPASSOCVPWITHMAP, when I execute this command the following message pops up: 'Specify a display map', what is that referring to?

Thank you

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> 'Specify a display map', what is that referring to?

One of your defined maps (defined by command _MAPNEWMAP or _MAPDUPLICATEMAP (more >>>details<<<).

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Hi Alfred,

Thank you, I didn't expect that to be so easy. 

The mapping side of AutoCAD Map 3D is still a bit complicated but I'm getting there slowly.