I created a boundary to hide the building area contours, but that also removes the area from the cut and fill volume. Is there a way to accomplish hiding the contours in an area and still have the area included in cut and fill?
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I created a boundary to hide the building area contours, but that also removes the area from the cut and fill volume. Is there a way to accomplish hiding the contours in an area and still have the area included in cut and fill?
no, but you can make copies of your surfaces, remive the hides, and set them to not display. Then use the copies for you calcs.
I like to create a few different surfaces so that I can control the style of the surface yet be able to perform calculations or create profiles if need be.
I create a master surface, something like FINAL - FG, which I have all of my individual surfaces pasted into. Then I would create a surface that just was for the site, but not the building. Then I would create a surface just for the building. Those two surfaces would get pasted into the master surface so that I can do my earthwork calcs. I would then simply turn off the surface for the building and leave the surface on for the lot, and apply the earthwork calculations surface, to show my grid and color.
Hopefully that makes sense.
I believe this is similar to what CADtag is saying as well.
you can also extract the contours to polylines trim them from the desired areas then set the surface to no display don't need the extra surface data
You could also create a feature line around the building set at a constant elevation. This way you won't see contours under the building and you won't have a hole in the surface.
following Jeff's tip, I usually set the breakline foir the building 0.001 ft above FFE