Cut fill volume with hide boundaries

[RobertEVs]

What is the best way to determine volumes when I have several hide boundaries? I will typically use volume dashboard and create several bounded volumes then do the math to subtract those from the total. Easier way?

[ecfernandez]

Hi, @RobertEVs, Interesting question. Let me ask you. What would that situation look like? Is it for a site project? a road?

Can you post a screenshot?

Regards!

[RobertEVs]

This is what I'm after. Need a volume surface of the purple area without the yellow (remove) areas. I would typically bound the large area, then bound each yellow area independent and subtract them from the purple area. Just wondered if there was an easier way to do this, not that this method is impossible.

 

[jroot]

You can add the yellow areas as Hide Boundaries (polylines) of the Volume Surface.

[JDB423]

If you create your volume surface from your 2 surfaces, you can then add those hide boundaries to it after, it will update the values in your volume dashboard when you add them.

[RobertEVs]

Hide boundaries remove the surface data from a volume report automatically? I have these areas set up as hide boundaries so then no need to create a bounded area of these as long as they are set to hide? 

[RobertEVs]

Thanks I'll test this

[MichaelH13]

Yes, I'm pretty sure it works this way.

Easy to test - look at the volume surface stats total without the hide boundaries turned on. Then, turn on the hide boundaries on the relevant surface and reload the volume surface. In the Stats tab the total value should be less. 

[Joe-Bouza]

Pretty sure if there are no triangles there is no calculation