Use this command to report total volume calculations within the
site boundary polyline. The report includes the cut and fill
quantities, slope and horizontal area, average and max strata cut
depth and max cut/fill depths and locations. Also in the report,
strata and topsoil quantities if the site has strata and topsoil
defined. Besides reporting the total quantities for the site
boundary, Area Of Interest polylines can be used to report
quantities within named perimeters.
Before running this command, the existing and design surfaces must
be created and the boundary polyline must be assigned. Also,
the strata surfaces, topsoil and Area Of Interest polylines need to
be set before this command if those features are to be
reported.
The Volume Options dialog box shown here offers options for the
final report. Here you can select four different types of reports:
Standard Report Viewer, Custom Report Formatter, Expanded Auto
Format, and Compressed Auto Format. The Cut Swell Factor is
multiplied by the cut volume and the Fill Shrink Factor is
multiplied by the fill volume. Report Cut/Fill Depth Zones breaks
the Cut/Fill volumes up by user-defined depth intervals. The Report
Units setting chooses between English and Metric quantities for the
report. In Drawing Setup in Takeoff, you set the drawing units as
either English or Metric. The Report Units will default to match
the drawing units but you can change the Report Units to the other
mode and the program will apply the conversion between English and
Metric for the report. So you can have a drawing in English units
and create a report with Metric quantities.
Note: As the quantities are calculated within each area, the area
is hatched with a solid fill as a visual verification that the
right area is being processed.
Shown here is an example of a Standard Report Viewer.Use Customs Report Formatter to
customize or "user define" the reporting options. The Report
Formatter Options dialog box shown here offers a variety of output
options including Excel. You can choose the fields to report from
the Available list and set their report order under the Used
list.
For the Compress and the Expanded Auto Formats, the Report Cut/Fill
in Color option will color the cut values in red and the fill
values in blue in the report. Also, the Page Settings button has
more controls for these auto formats including whether to output
the report to PDF or to a drawing layout.
The Expanded Auto Format is shown below.If
drillholes have been located on the drawing and strata types and
depths have been defined, a calculate Strata Depth Zones Volume
option becomes available. Here strata volumes are broken down by
user-specified depth intervals. The depths are either determined
horizontally (By Level) or by the area of the deepest cut (By Zone
Area).Shown here is an example of the report if strata depth
intervals have been defined.
The Balance Cut/Fill option vertically raises or lowers the design
surface to balance the cut and fill. The report states how much the
design surface was adjusted for the balance. When the drawing has
grade entities, these entities can be adjusted for the balance. For
example, pad polylines created by the Elevate Pads By Grade Rules
can be raised or lowered for the balance. After the volumes report,
the program asks whether to save the changes for the balance. This
will update the grade entities and the design surface files for
Design Surface After Zones/Topsoil (-sg) and Design Surface After
Subgrade Zones (-zn).
With the balance routine, you can set import or export volumes. Use
these options if extra material is available or needed
elsewhere.
Pulldown Menu Location: Takeoff Prerequisite: Existing and design surfaces and a boundary
polyline Keyboard Command: tin_volume