Color Contours by Elevation
This command sets the color of the selected contour polylines
and text based on elevation. The color to use is defined in
elevation range table.
- Auto - This button
opens the following dialog, allowing for automatic configuration of
the range of elevations and colors.
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- Starting Zone #
- Sets the zone with which
to begin the application of the settings defined in this
dialog. For Instance, if the Starting Zone was set to 10, the
settings definitions applied here wouldn't affect Zones 1-9, but
would start at Zone 10.
- Set Values - Enables
the Starting Value and Value Interval fields, which allow the user
to specify the starting elevation for the given zone and set the
zone increment.
- Starting Value - Sets
the starting elevation value for the first zone.
- Value Interval - Sets
the elevation increment for subsequent zones.
- Set Colors - Enables
the Starting Color and Color Increment fields.
- Starting Color # - Sets
the starting color number, based on the AutoCAD standard color
chart.
- Color Increment - Sets
the color number to increase for subsequent zones. So if the
increment was set to 5, and the starting color was 60, the next
color would be 65, 70, and so on.
- Note: The
Pattern, Scale, and Layer options do not apply to this
command.
- Clear - Clears the all of the Elevation fields in the
dialog
- Load - Loads previous
settings from a saved .pat file
- Save - Saves the
current setting configuration to a .pat file.
Prompts
Select polylines and text to color: pick the
entities
Define Ranges Dialog
Pick point for color legend: pick a point to a clear area of
the drawing to place a legend or press Enter for no legend
Pull-Down Menu Location: Surface >> Modify Contours
>> Color Contours
Keyboard Command: ctrcolor
Prerequisite: Contours polylines