I’m wonder what is best method for calculating specified fill in areas. For instance the CLSM in this embankment detail?
I thought of using a cross sectional site improvement but I don’t think those values get subtracted from mass earthwork fill and it’s not possible to use a negative material thickness.
Is the best option to create multiple material surfaces and do more manual editing all your reports?
If that CLSM fill elevation is consistent, you can run an earthwork report from “Surface to elevation”, define your elevation as 857.
For sure, that would work fine for that scenario, just would have to manually edit the report. There are a few workarounds and maybe this just doesn’t occur often for others for it to be needed.
That detail was just the first simple example I found. I have a project where there are multiple locations with multiple depths and have had situations where being able to define a fill material for an area and/or defining depth or fill amount to a surface for a SI would be handy and save time of editing reports.
I would build that using a Corridor Model and design the inside areas using instructions and Material Layers in the corridor and then run End Section Qtys on them. If you want you can create a surface for each material layer you define and then run surface to surface qtys on the surfaces created.
Alan
