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Its April fools day and being part of Autodesk I cannot give you statements on our products that are not true, so as a twist on the idea here is a mad idea for cut and fill volume analysis.<\/p>\n Where I live I now at StrongiFARM have two horses in my little field, both are creating plenty of organic matter.<\/p>\n I was thinking of removing the muck heap that is piling up and asking a local farmer to bring his tractor and trailer to remove the heap.<\/p>\n However, how many loads do I have? So to answer the question I will get asked, I need a volume of muck that I need shifting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, camera at hand I took some photos of the heap. As I don\u2019t have my quad copter now I also raised my camera above my head and photos at two elevations which was high enough to get above the heap.<\/p>\n Posting the images to Photo on ReCap 360, I registered a known length of the wooden pole I included in the scene.<\/p>\n This scales the data.<\/p>\n So with results looking good, I exported an .RCS file.<\/p>\n Bringing that file into AutoCAD Civil 3D (2014), I make a surface from the point cloud.<\/p>\n I have no noise in this example and ReCap 360 removed the horse walking around me being nosey.<\/p>\n Next I draw a reference polyline around the heap at a set elevation and make a surface.<\/p>\n Looking at the long section, I can see where I want to dig out the heap to.<\/p>\n Yes I could use grading, but its a pile of muck, I don\u2019t need grading slopes From the Volume dashboard, make a TIN Volume surface and there we go my results are clear.<\/p>\n I have a lot of muck to clear<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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