Trimble Business Center

Hello All,

I am trying to find a less clunky way of reporting the collective volume inside multiple boundaries simultaneously.

The obvious answer for this is use the AOI (Area of interest) command, this can sum the collective volume for multiple closed polygons:



This issue is that the TBC takeoff reporting is incredibly slow and painful still. I have found it is much much quicker and less confusing to simply run earthworks reports with multiple boundaries selected between my produced takeoff surfaces. The drawback is it can only report the volume for one closed boundary at a time and does not do any summation or calculations across multiple polygons. I could do this manually in excel however that opens up the risk of making a mistake and is time consuming.





I'm only looking for simple volumes between 2 surfaces (bulk earthworks), I don't always need to know every material and site improvement. I feel like the "Earthworks Volume" report should be updated to allow it to be used with AOIs, forcing new users to use the takeoff routine is off putting and time consuming.

Another note on the "Earthworks volume" reporting, I would be hugely more efficient if instead of many bloated A4 pages it could just output an excel row with headers for each closed polygon. Pretty much all other software works this way. Also computing the totals at the bottom of each column would be very useful and help us to get to the key information much more quickly than at present.



Hopefully that all makes sense, Happy to do a screen capture to show the issue in more depth.

Many thanks for any help!

Cheers

Sam