Trimble Business Center

How am I able to see materials on my takeoff report that are outside of my Areas of Interest? I check the box saying "Include Remaining Area" but I do not seem to have all site improvement materials included in the takeoff report. If I run a takeoff report without consideration of my areas of interest I am not able to differentiate easily what materials are allocated to what locations on my site. How may I go about finding the totals of all materials on my site, as well as a breakdown of the material totals within the areas of interest?

When you look at a Takeoff Report the following is true (I am talking about the Excel Report here)

1. The Mass Earthworks section of the Report will report in the AOIs that you define as well as the Remaining Area
2. The Site Improvements part of the report is broken into AOIs if you select the AOIs - It does not report Site Improvements that fall outside the defined AOIs (I will put in a request to change that as I think that is wrong). My recommendation is that if for example you have a project and you define a North AOI but no South AOI that you do in fact define a South AOI to cover the remaining area of the project, or that you define a "Whole project AOI" so that you capture the Site Improvements correctly.You can also run the Report without AOIs to get the entire list of Site Improvements for the Project. Be aware that if you have overlapping areas that the quantities will get reported 2x not once as you would likely need. Also be aware that the more AOIs that you define the longer the computation process will be for the Takeoff report.

Hope that this helps

Alan

That is the path I ended up taking. I ran a takeoff report including the areas of interest, and then again without, deducting the quantities to get the remaining totals. However, it doesn't seem like it would be unreasonable to show both in the same report. The quantities included in the AOI's and then the site improvements in all other areas. Otherwise, I have to define every site improvement within some Area of Interest in order to show all quantities in one report. This doesn't always make sense for me to do.