Importing Surface Data

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When you begin working in info

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drainage importing background surface information is

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not required but it does provide a good starting point for your project

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to import existing surface data. You could use the import tab on the ribbon

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but you can also do it from the tree view.

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In the tree view, right click surface and select load surface

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in the surface data dialog box

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from the create surface panel,

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choose which data type you want to import.

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There are a variety of choices including spreadsheet files, cad files,

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X Y Z coordinate files, land xmL files and A S. C. Or P W. F. Files.

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You may even see other file types here

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depending on your local standards and location.

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Essentially all of these file types provide East ng northern and level

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or elevation point data that creates a surface that you can work from

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for this exercise, click the load from option,

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then browse to the info drainage data files which have the file extension dot I D S X.

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Select the file surface one dot I d S X. And then click open

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this,

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simply loads the data because it is

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already formatted correctly rather than importing it,

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which requires a file conversion process during the import

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back in the surface data dialog you can see that

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the points have been loaded under the elevation points columns

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at this point it is good practice to save the surface

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from the toolbar click save as

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and then browse to the save work here folder and open it

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name the file such as imported surface for this exercise and then click save

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back in the surface data dialog, click OK

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now that the surfaces in the info drainage format,

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you can see it listed in the tree view

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from the tree view, click the surface box to see the surface in the plan view.

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If you cannot see it, you may have to zoom and pan the view until you can see it.

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Or in the tool box, click view extents

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Keep in mind that your view of the surface may not look exactly like

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it does in this example because the default view settings can be changed.