Hi,
i have the area of the bottom of a stockpile, and i have the area of the top of the stockpile, and i have the elevation at the top and bottom. It is 2d geometry in autocad, how can i make this into a solid so i can find the volume of this stockpile. I also have auto cad Civil 3d, if it would be easier to do it in that. i am new to civil, but have worked with autocad quite a bit.
thanks for the help.
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You need to set the lines representing the top and bottom areas of the stockpile at the proper elevations (Z-values). In Vanilla AutoCAD, you can generate a surface between the two polylines. In Civil 3D, it is similar. You create a surface and then add the lines into it as breaklines. Either method will yield a volume. The volume you get using only top and bottom areas and the elevation difference will be the roughly same as doing a quick hand-calculation of the volume using the average end method, which would be much quicker.
Volume calcs are super-simple on Civil 3d. You just make a base surface and a stockpile surface, then compare them on the Volumes Dashboard. Thusly:
Eric Colburn has a great video Here.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada