Volume between two surfaces

[Anonymous]

How can I determine the volume between two surfaces??? What commands are used???

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Method 1

Surfaces > utilities > Volumes

Base Surface = original ground , comparison surface = secondary surface to
compare against og

Method 2

Surface > Create surface > pulldown type set to: Grid volume surface and the
set your base and comparison. The go to prospector and right click on the
created grid surface and you can view the cut fill volumes.

Robert Howell

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How can I determine the volume between two surfaces??? What commands are
used???

[Anonymous]

Hi,

To clarify, use method 1 if you want only to query and obtain information about a surface volume or bounded volume. Use method 2 to create a persistent surface object. Therefore, you can display cut and fill contours, cut and fill points, add labels to it, and add it to a project., etc.

Regards,

Jonathan Burgoyne
Autodesk, Inc.

[Anonymous]

G'day,

How do you determined the stripping volume? (i.e. I want to strip 0.5'
of existing material from the entire site before I determine cut/fill volume
to finished grade). Right now, w/ civil 3, I used the 3D surface area in
the Extended Surface Statistics in TME.

Thanks in advance,
Jim
Win XP, SP2
1.69 GHz, 1.00 GB RAM
LDD 3 w/ Civil 3 (AutoCAD 2002)
(Upgrading soon to: 2006/ Civ 3D YEA!!)

wrote in message news:4874431@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi,

To clarify, use method 1 if you want only to query and obtain information
about a surface volume or bounded volume. Use method 2 to create a
persistent surface object. Therefore, you can display cut and fill contours,
cut and fill points, add labels to it, and add it to a project., etc.

Regards,

Jonathan Burgoyne
Autodesk, Inc.

[nzeeben]

I would suggest creating a copy of your surface and then using edits, lower the surface by -.5'. You can then do a volume calc between those two surfaces.