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Jan 31, 2013

I've had a rather odd request come in for Volume calculations and I'm not sure how to go about it.

I have 2 surfaces: 1-Design 2-Excavation to Date

Now, the engineers would like to use a dozer to push this material down the hill but they want to do it incrementally by elevation. They would like to know how much material there is to excavate above elevation 90, then between elevation 80-90, then 70-80, etc all the way to 30-40.

I attached a sketch... what is the best way to do this?
 
AUTOCAD Civil 3D 2013
Windows 7
Processor: Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU W3565 @ 3.20GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 12.0GB
System Type: 64-bit

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