Breaking out Volumes by cut and fill line?

[travanx]

Maybe someone has figured out a way to do this after using the program longer. What I want to do is manipulate my volume data to give me the total cut or fill depending on where the cut/fill line is located. I will attach a picture example. Any ideas of how this could be automated would be great, or even how to do this in Civil 3d?

Currently I used parcel manager in Land and traced a parcel outside of the cut/fill line and then ran the volume calc. But that is very tedious if this has to be done 40 times. And I dont know how to do this in Civil 3D.

[Anonymous]

Read this from Angel. Should get you started.

http://acecivil3d.blogspot.com/2005/10/earthwork-quantities.html

Bill

wrote in message news:5462574@discussion.autodesk.com...
Maybe someone has figured out a way to do this after using the program
longer. What I want to do is manipulate my volume data to give me the total
cut or fill depending on where the cut/fill line is located. I will attach
a picture example. Any ideas of how this could be automated would be great,
or even how to do this in Civil 3d?

Currently I used parcel manager in Land and traced a parcel outside of the
cut/fill line and then ran the volume calc. But that is very tedious if
this
has to be done 40 times. And I dont know how to do this in Civil 3D.

[travanx]

i should be more specific. but see how the picture has a cut or fill number in each cut/fill line area? is there an automatic way to break out each cut or fill volume number? or does someone know how to automative what i am showing in that screenshot? i already know how to run a simple volume between an existing ground and proposed.

[Anonymous]

"What I want to do is manipulate my volume data to give me the total cut or
fill . . ."

Sorry.

wrote in message news:5462833@discussion.autodesk.com...
i should be more specific. but see how the picture has a cut or fill number
in each cut/fill line area? is there an automatic way to break out each cut
or fill volume number? or does someone know how to automative what i am
showing in that screenshot? i already know how to run a simple volume
between an existing ground and proposed.

[Anonymous]

You can use a Volume surface with the contours displaying to obtain the 0 depth contours. I would copy your current volume surface. Change the layer to a different layer to isolate the surface copy. Then explode the surface copy TWO times (the first explode gives you a block, the second polylines). Locate the 0 contours polylines and insure the polylines are closed. If not minor editing may be need to insure they are closed. You can erase all other polylines from the exploded surface.
Turn on the original volume surface layer.
Select Surfaces-Utilities-Bounded Volumes
You will be prompted to select a surface - select the volume surface
Then you select one of the closed polylines and the program will calculate the Cut/Fill of that region.

Cliff Patterson
Rocke & Associates
Fort Wayne, IN.
Civil 3d 2007, SP-3
Xeon 2.80 Ghz, 2.0 GB Ram

[travanx]

that seems faster than doing it in land. any thoughts on getting the areas on the boundaries on the outside of the project where those polylines wouldnt always close. or is that the manually editting thing you are talking about. is it possible to somehow automate this in Civil 3D? i cant wait to try this out.

[Anonymous]

?? Disclaimer: I'm NOT a Civil3D guy !!

However, the volume surface(s) can be created.
It seems that you could make the limiting lines 'boundaries' delineating
the volume surface(s). From there wouldn't it be the 'simple' task of
creating a label style that would have the right font, etc. and report
the correct value from the volume surface?

Just pushing a trial balloon out there for the brilliant ones to tie
into neat little a package.

Hope this is helpful,
MattW

travanx wrote:
> Maybe someone has figured out a way to do this after using the program longer. What I want to do is manipulate my volume data to give me the total cut or fill depending on where the cut/fill line is located. I will attach a picture example. Any ideas of how this could be automated would be great, or even how to do this in Civil 3d?
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> Currently I used parcel manager in Land and traced a parcel outside of the cut/fill line and then ran the volume calc. But that is very tedious if this
> has to be done 40 times. And I dont know how to do this in Civil 3D.
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[travanx]

Well it turns out Carlson Takeoff can do this automatically. You click create centroid and it breaks out each area automatically. You can even have it do areas of a certain volume of cut and fill over whatever amount you tell it. So if you wanted all of the areas that have over 100,000 c.y. of cut or fill it will only break those out. So thankfully I can bring a 3D version of the drawing into Takeoff and do exactly what I want. Too bad I have trouble even building the surface on the large project in land or civil 3d, but it works on the carlson takeoff package.

[Anonymous]

likewise with Agtek, but you'll have to take out a second mortgage to buy
it.

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Well it turns out Carlson Takeoff can do this automatically.

[Civil3DReminders_com]

Had to use Agtek at a previous job and disliked it, EarthGraphics is a much better program.

http://www.earthgraphics.com/