Smoothing the intersect of grading

[Crass]

I am new to use grading. I am grading out two ponds at different elevations and in close proximity. Where the gradings intersect there is some weird stuff happening. From a strategy standpoint hat is the best way to smooth/control this area? My instinct is to start editing the surface to clean i up but I assume I would lose the dynamic nature of the grading criteria. Thoughts?

[rl_jackson]

Sometimes you'll need to add a featureline as a breakline to the surface to smooth things out.

[TrainingNode-01 · Accepted solution]

Hello @Crass 

When 2 grading objects are on one site they will interfere with each other where they overlap. 

What you need to do is

• Place them (their feature lines and grading) on a separate site.
• Grade the first pond to the EG surface
• Create a combined surface of the first pond surface and the EG surface
• Grade the second pond to the Combined surface.

For example:

Pond A is on Site A and graded to EG

Pond B is on Site B and is graded to a Combined surface that consists of Surface EG and Surface Pond A

[Crass]

Genius! This worked great. Thank you

[Joe-Bouza]

@TrainingNode-01 This is a great approach. Kudos. how would would you approach getting say a 10-foot flat area between the two intersecting grading 

Im thinking a 3rd grading pasting .. I hate adding partial grading with different criteria - that seems to always gum up civil3d

[Joe-Bouza]

YUP. Easy.