civil 2010 and 2011 volumes of a stockpile by elevation

[rhalley]

I have a few vary large stockpile that i need to het volumes of the stockpile at 1 meter intervals- is there a quick way of doing this, other then finding the area of each elevation and calulating the volumes.

RH

[tcorey]

Create an OG and FG surface. Create a volume surface that compares the two.

Use Bounded Volume (on the Analyze tab of Ribbon) and specify each incremental elevation as a datum. You will get a volume for each elevation.

You must press D (enter) before each datum input. So if you want 120, 121, 122, you have to press D <enter> 120 <enter> D <enter> 121 <enter>, etc.

The printout goes to the AutoCAD text screen, so you can easily Copy and Paste to your work processor or the Mtext for placement on the drawing.

[rhalley]

Thank you- but I am having problems with setting the datum. I am not getting a prompt for the elevation, is there a setting i should be looking at?

[tcorey]

Are you typing D for datum? After doing that you should be prompted for the datum elevation. That's the elevation at which the volumes are calculated.

[rhalley]

I am working it from the start again to see if I am missing anything

[mathewkol]

Tim, is that feature available in 2010 and 2011? I can't remember.

[Joe-Bouza]

Sounds like an inverted pond? Would stage storage help?

[tcorey]

This feature is definitely in 2011 and 2012. I am not sure about 2010.

[BrianHailey]

I blogged about this subject using 2012 and the volumes dashboard extension. You can use a similar method without the dashboard extension, it's just a bit more manual.

http://civil3dplus.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/filling-curve-using-volumes-dashboard/