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posted 10/08/08 by Ove Cervin Stage Storage - a sample
Yes!
Finally, yesterday, I was able to call a person who 6 month ago called me and asked about if it was easy to calculate the volumes up to a certain level in a Pond. I then told him that this was possible, but not, at that time, fully automatic.
Now, today, all Subscription customers are able to download and use the new Stage Storage extension. This easy tool directly gives the volumes of a pond to all levels of interest. Subscription center is the place where to find it.

Below is a sample pond.
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Bottom is at elevation +73m
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To get the volumes we start the extension in the Toolbox.
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Give it a name (optional) and then choose calculation method. There are, as you see, also other settings.
Choose the "Define Basin" button.
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In my case I use the "Define basin from contours" in this dialog.
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When we select a contour line on the pond/basin Surface we get a number of white Contours presented.
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Then we get the report - smooooooth...
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We get the areas for each contour line, the volumes between each level, incremental, of contours and the total, cumulative volume up to that level.
If you need the volumes up to, let's say, +77.25m - just change the Style for your Surface to match that interval and do the calculation here again! Eeeeeeasy... ;-)

Note: As all units are at the moment in imperial. The easiest way to get them metric is using the resulting ASCII-file and put it in to Excel.

We also get a ASCII-report that can be saved.
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Go try it out!

Cheers / Ove C

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  • Stage Storage Extension

    Posted 09/04/08 by Ove Cervin

    Hi all,
    I hope you have seen the new tools available on Autodesk Subscription center.
    What I had in mind here is the new extension called "Stage Storage Extension".

    Here is a description on what it does:
    Stage Storage Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009 – Download

    The Stage Storage Extension for AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009 is used to calculate incremental and cumulative volumes of a basin from an AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface. Polylines that represent the basin contours or Civil 3D surface contours can be selected to calculate basin volume and area values. Volumes are calculated by average end area as well as conic approximation. Volume and area analysis tables may be saved as .AeccSTT files, inserted into the drawing as an AutoCAD tables or sent to a .txt report file.

    This extension is only available to AutoCAD Civil 3D users. The extension is available in English and will install on all language versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D.

    There are also a number of new Subassemblies on Subscription center. Check them out! Hopefully they can help you in you daily work ;-)

    I am also glad to tell you all that our colleague Jack finally had a son. Congratulations !!
    Maybe we will see a shifted focus here on this blog in the future? A more soft "baby skin" feel to the postings ? ;-)

    I'd also like to remind you going in to the AUGI webpages and review the whishlist for next C3D. Please do.

    Until next time, take care! / Ove C

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  • GENIO Import Tool for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008/2009

    Posted 05/30/08 by Jack Strongitharm

    Hopefully this is not necessarily new news to you all, as your Communication Centre in Civil 3D should have already alerted you to this new import tool for GENIO files into AutoCAD Civil 3D.

    For those that have to deal with files from other design and survey companies etc that come in GENIO format you need a method to bring that into Civil 3D. Also if it is a design file that contains, surfaces and alignment and profile geometry wouldn't it be nice to actually have them converted to Civil 3D objects!

    Well that is what this tool does!

    GENIO files orginated from 'MOSS/Mx' and has been used in the industry for many years for transferring data with design and survey data.

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    So where do you get it, well this tool is for you guys that are on subscription as an additional benefit to what came in the box software.

    You need to login into http://www.autodesk.com/subscriptionlogin and download it from there.

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    If you don't know your login details, please contact your IT department who looks after your Autodesk software and or your reseller who supplied you the software.


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