End Areas

There are two types of end areas: cut area and fill area. This command allows you to digitize both cut area and fill area on the drawing and writes data to a .ew file. The command first prompts you to calibrate the section sheet by picking three points and specify their offsets to the centerline and elevations in order to determine the horizontal and vertical intervals. Corners on the section grid are preferred reference points. Then it prompts you to digitize the cut area and fill area respectively. Place your cursor at one end of the end area and begin digitizing the outline of the area. At the end of the section line, press Enter on your puck or keyboard. The end area is completed, and its area is printed on the command line, and you are prompted to digitize next end area. After you finish all the end area at one station, accumulated cut area and fill area are computed and printed out on the screen. All data of cut area and fill area at every station would be saved in the area file (.ew) that you have specified.

Prompts

Calibrate section sheet
Pick First section sheet reference point:   pick a point on the drawing
Enter offset <0.0>:   press Enter to accept the offset (or enter the offset of the point to the centerline)
Enter elevation:    1020 (enter the Elevation of the reference point)
Pick Second section reference point:   pick a point
Enter offset:    0 (enter the offset of the point to the centerline)
Enter elevation:    1030 (enter the Elevation of the reference point)
Pick Third section reference point:   pick a point
Enter offset:    50 (enter the offset of the point to the centerline)
Enter elevation:    1030 (enter the Elevation of the reference point)
3 calibration points
Transformation type:            Orthogonal            Affine        Projective
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Outcome of fit:                      Success                Exact        Impossible
RMS Error:                           11.69
Standard deviation:                2.40
Largest residual:                    14.29
At point:                                2
Second-largest residual:         14.29
At point:                                3
Digitize cut area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the cut area, 0*(0.211129 1030.76)
Digitize cut area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the cut area, 1*(11.5804 1030.49)
Digitize cut area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the cut area, 2*(17.8643 1030.73)
Digitize cut area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the cut area, 3*(19.0216 1032.35)
Digitize cut area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the cut area, 4*(-0.777246 1030.75)
Digitize cut area (Enter to end):   press Enter to finish
End area: 17.2312
Accumulated Cut Area: 17.2312
More Cut Areas [Yes(A)/<No>(B)]?   press A to digitize more Cut Areas, or press B to finish digitizing Cut Areas.
Accumulated Cut Area: 17.2312
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the fill area, 0*(-18.9614 1029.65)
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the fill area, 1*(-18.1315 1030.75)
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the fill area, 2*(-11.9592 1030.49)
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the fill area, 3*(-2.06761 1030.72)
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the fill area, 4*(-10.0082 1030.01)
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):    pick a point that is on the outline of the fill area, 5*(-18.531 1029.67)
Digitize fill area (Enter to end):   press enter to finish
End area: 8.64646
Accumulated Cut Area: 8.64646
More Fill Areas [Yes(A)/<No>(B)]?   press A to digitize more Fill Areas, or press B to finish digitizing Fill Areas.
Accumulated Cut Area: 8.64646
Total Cut Area: 17.2312
Total Fill Area: 8.64646
Store data to file [<Yes>(A)/No(B)]?   press A or B
Opened file: C:\Program Files\Carlson TakeOff 2004\DATA\Drawing1.ew
Station Number:    1 (enter Station Number)
Data Stored in file: C:\Program Files\Carlson TakeOff 2004\DATA\Drawing1.ew
Digitize another station [<Yes>(A)/No(B)]?
   B (press A or B)

Prerequisite:
Have a digitizer board and a puck connected to your computer, and have Wintab driver installed. The digitizer has been correctly set up. Have done tablet calibration for current drawing.
Keyboard Command:
digendar