I'm trying to decide whether or not the tool will be useful to me from a takeoff perspective digitizing cross sections. Most jobs we run end up being phased based off of an offset from center line and I would like to be able to breakout takeoffs by station and offset. Would that be a custom report perhaps I could create?
When you run the corridor earthwork report you can select a boundary to limit the calculations. You can use the create boundary command and the alignment corridor option to define a boundary based on two offsets and a beginning and ending station. It will follow the alignment to give you a consistent shape. It will even adjust automatically if you change the alignment. Note that the excel report option will give you more information and will also report the surface areas of the materials within the boundary.
tim
Do you know if this functionailty works even if the corridor is a takeoff built from digitized cross sections?
I don't see why not.
This is something that I am looking as well. if you have built in your subgrade into your corridor, it will not create a correct report when using your subgrade. I recently ran a report to use my subgrade for a surface to surface and my subgrade surface had to many spikes. Made incorrect quantity. Mine was due to my subgrading stepping pass my edge of pavement. If there was a quick way to copy a corridor, you could delete one side.
When you run the corridor earthwork report you can select a boundary to limit the calculations. You can use the create boundary command and the alignment corridor option to define a boundary based on two offsets and a beginning and ending station. It will follow the alignment to give you a consistent shape. It will even adjust automatically if you change the alignment. Note that the excel report option will give you more information and will also report the surface areas of the materials within the boundary.
tim