Civil 3D 2013中对曲面的.net API做了增强，可以让我们从三角网曲面中提取栅格网。先看看效果：

下面的代码演示了从一个三角网曲面中提取三维栅格网，这些栅格网是由红色是三维多段线polyline构成的。

//
using System;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using Autodesk.Civil.DatabaseServices;
using Autodesk.Civil;

// This line is not mandatory, but improves loading performances
[assembly: CommandClass(typeof(SurfaceApiInCivil3D2013.MyCommands))]

namespace SurfaceApiInCivil3D2013
{

    // This class is instantiated by AutoCAD for each document when
    // a command is called by the user the first time in the context
    // of a given document. In other words, non static data in this class
    // is implicitly per-document!
    public class MyCommands
    {
        static Document _doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
        static Editor _editor = _doc.Editor;
        static Database db = _doc.Database;

        private ObjectId promptForTinSurface()
        {
            PromptEntityOptions options = new PromptEntityOptions(
                "\nSelect a TIN Surface: ");
            options.SetRejectMessage(
                "\nThe selected object is not a TIN Surface.");
            options.AddAllowedClass(typeof(TinSurface), true);

            PromptEntityResult result = _editor.GetEntity(options);
            if (result.Status == PromptStatus.OK)
            {
                // Everything is cool; we return the selected
                // surface ObjectId.
                return result.ObjectId;
            }
            return ObjectId.Null;   // Indicating error.
        }

        [CommandMethod("CDS_ExtractGrid")]
        public void CDS_ExtractGrid()
        {
            ObjectId surfaceId = promptForTinSurface();
            if (surfaceId == ObjectId.Null)
            {
                _editor.WriteMessage("\nNo TIN Surface selected.");
                return;
            }

            using (Transaction tr = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
            {
                TinSurface surface = surfaceId.GetObject(OpenMode.ForRead)
                    as TinSurface;
                ObjectIdCollection ids = surface.ExtractGridded(
                    SurfaceExtractionSettingsType.Model);

                foreach (ObjectId id in ids)
                {
                    Polyline3d polyline =
                        id.GetObject(OpenMode.ForWrite) as Polyline3d;
                    if (polyline != null)
                    {
                        using (polyline)
                        {
                            polyline.Color =
                                Autodesk.AutoCAD.Colors.Color.FromRgb(255, 0, 0);
                        }
                    }
                }
                tr.Commit();
            }
        }


    }

}

想了解更多Civil 3D 2013 API，请看Civilized Development博客中的21WOJP系列 （21 Week Of JayPeak）, JayPeak是Civil 3D 2013的代码名。