Contour lines and the magic wand

[Anonymous]

How do i change the heights of the contour lines?

I drew splines as cut lines, then clicked the magic wand on them but i cant find anything where it specifies the height.

The training guide says "change the heights of the contour lines"....not much help there

[Anonymous]

Select a contour line (also know as ridge lines)
by clicking on the line not a node, activate the
Mesh tool, click on the line and a pet pallet comes up
where you select the elevation button (the one with
the letter Z at the top of a vertical line), a dialogue box
then appears where you assign a mesh point height value
and check the button that says "Apply to all".
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

When i click on the line, the edit box pops up, but it doesnt have the z option you mentioned. Maybe i created the contour wrong. Heres how i got to the point im at...........

1. i drew a square mesh and assigned a 50' depth
2. i drew a spline from 1 edge to another edge of the mesh
3. i applied the magic wand to the spline

Is that the way a contour line is created?

When i click on the line, the original spline nodes appear, and if i click it again, several more appear.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Yes that is the way to create contour lines.
You can create contour lines by magic wanding
grouped lines, polylines, splines, etc.

What should be done after the magic wand tracing operation
is to select the drafting elements and delete them
or assign them to a hidden layer.

Now you can select the mesh contour lines.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

I cant seem to find a point on the line that activates the box you speak of. All im getting is the one that has mirror, copy, add node, move node, etc.

All i get while hovering over the line is a check mark on the nodes, and the delta symbol inbetween nodes. Both bring up the same box.

[Anonymous]

When you say delta symbol do you mean the mercedes cursor form ?

The pet pallet I am referring to has only five items and the elevate button
is on the first line next to the insert node button.

Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Yes, the mercedes symbol.

After clicking on the line in about 20 different places, i finally got the pallete your talking about, but i must have entered invalid info in because my pc locked up when i tried to go to the 3d window.

After restarting ive clicked on the line about 100 times in different places and cant get that pallete to show up any more.

[Anonymous]

When you say "cant get that pallet to show up any more"
do you mean that you can not get any pet pallet to show,
or do you mean you get the larger pet pallet that you get
when you click on the edge of a mesh,
or are you referring to the dialogue box with the elevation numeric field ?
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

The pallete im getting has the following options

-add new node to spline
-drag
-rotate
-mirror
-multiply

The pallete that has the z option is very elusive and has only appeared once in about 300 clicks

[Anonymous]

If i click on the edge of the main square mesh, the correct pallete shows up everytime. It just wont show no matter where i click on a spline