It’s often necessary to compute the volumes of materials associated with corridor daylighting. These materials may include things like topsoil, rip rap or seeded grass. In today’s installment, we’ll look at a way to calculate material volumes like these using Civil 3D’s “Place Lined Material” option.
Place Lined Material represents a setting available on every daylight subassembly provided with Civil 3D. Simply turning this feature on allows up to three slope dependent materials to be assigned to specified daylight links. (Options include Fill Links Only, Daylight Links, and All Links.)
The next time you need to calculate topsoil (or other daylight related materials) associated with a corridor, try experimenting with the Place Lined Material option. You may find that it provides an easy out-of-the-box way to apply and compute these material volumes. If you are interested, I’ve created a quick video below that will help get you started!
-Jeff