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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

1 Specify the Frequency at which 2 If contour Smoothing is turned on,
contour lines are generated. Chief Architect attempts to remove
• Define the Interval between contour sharp bends and jagged sections from the 2D
lines, which is the change in elevation contour lines.
between contours. If the interval is set to • Specify the number of Passes to perform
12”, a contour line is computed for each when smoothing. The more passes, the
elevation change of 12”. smoother the contour lines become, but
• Specify the Offset value. When the Offset contours become less accurate.
is 0, a contour line will be drawn at zero Control the display of Contour Labels
elevation and additional contours will 3 in floor plan view.
generate based on the Interval value. If • Check Label Primary Contours to label
the Offset is changed to 5, a contour line primary contour lines with their elevation
will be drawn 5 units from zero elevation data using the Units specified below.
rather than at 0, and additional contours
will generate from there. • Check Label Secondary Contours to
label secondary contour lines with their
• Primary contour every__contours - elevation data.
Specify the interval for primary contours.
A value of 1 produces only primary con- • Check Highlight Negative Elevations to
tours, while a value of 5 defines every display labels of contour lines with eleva-
fifth contour line as a primary contour. tions below 0 in red. When unchecked,
they use the color set in the Text Style assigned to their layer.

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