Areas Of Interest

Areas of Interest can be used to calculate volumes and material quantities within a specified area. The Area Of Interest perimeters are defined by user-selected closed polylines and each area is assigned a name. The Area Of Interest polylines can be assigned either as inclusion or exclusion perimeters for the area. You can have any number of exclusion perimeters within an inclusion but inclusion perimeters cannot be inside exclusions. The same area name can be used with multiple inclusion polylines to combine the quantities from those polylines in the report.

The Areas Of Interest (AOI) commands allow you to Tag/Untag Areas of Interest, Identify/Report Areas of Interest and Hatch/Label Areas of Interest.

Tag Area Of Interest

This command allows the user to select polylines and exclusion perimeters that define phases of a project. Carlson Takeoff will separate each area of interest in the volume and material reports.

Prerequisite: a closed polyline
Keyboard Command: tag_aoi

Area Of Interest by Interior Text

This command allows the user to select text from the screen to name AOIs and linework to determine the area.

Prerequisite: area linework and text
Keyboard Command: txt2aoi

Untag Area Of Interest

This command allows the user to remove previously tagged areas.

Prerequisite: an area of interest
Keyboard Command: untag_aoi

Identify Area Of Interest

This command allows users to identify AOI by either picking on a polyline(s) or by searching the entire drawing. The command will then report the AOI name, layer, type, starting point, and highlight the polyline in the plan view.

Prerequisite: an area of interest
Keyboard Command: id_aoi

Report Area Of Interest Areas

Use this command to report the Inclusion or Exclusion area (SF), the name, the layer, and the starting point.

Prerequisite: an area of interest
Keyboard Command: report_aoi

Hatch Area Of Interest Areas

This command allows the user to visually see AOIs in the plain view.

This command draws a hatch with a specified color and pattern for the Areas of Interest. The purpose is to allow you to visually review AOIs to make sure that the area coverage is correct.

The command displays a dialog for the hatch pattern, color and scale. The scale determines how spread out the pattern is within the hatch. The Automatic Hatch Scale option checks the size of the subgrade areas and sets the scale to make the pattern fit. Cycle Different Colors For Each Area will give each AOI it's own color so that you can distinguish between different AOIs.

The resulting hatch areas show where the AOI is applied. Exclusion Areas of AOIs will not be hatched.

Prerequisite: an area of interest
Keyboard Command: hatch_aoi

Erase Area Of Interest Hatch

This command erases AOI hatching.

Prerequisite: hatched area of interest
Keyboard Command: erase_aoi_hatch

Label Area Of Interest Areas

This command labels the AOI name and area in the plain view.

Prerequisite: an area of interest
Keyboard Command: label_aoi

Erase Area Of Interest Labels

This command erases AOI labeling.

Keyboard Command: erase_aoi_labels
Prerequisite: hatched area of interest