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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.
Bottom is at elevation +73m
To get the volumes we start the extension in the Toolbox.
Give it a name (optional) and then choose calculation method. There are, as you see, also other settings.
Choose the "Define Basin" button.
In my case I use the "Define basin from contours" in this dialog.
When we select a contour line on the pond/basin Surface we get a number of white Contours presented.
Then we get the report - smooooooth...
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.
Go try it out!
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