To Add a Volume Surface to the Volumes Dashboard for Analysis

There are two ways to add surfaces to the Volumes Dashboard. You can create a new volume surface to analyze, or you can add an existing volume surface to the Volumes Dashboard to analyze.

To create a new volume surface in the Volumes Dashboard

1. Click Analyze tab Volumes and Materials panel Volumes Dashboard.
2. In the Volumes Dashboard, click Create New Volume Surface.
3. Use the Create Surface dialog box to set up the volume surface and click OK.
Note: You can set the default volume surface type that is used in the Create Surface dialog box for this command by changing the Volume Surface Creation settings in the VolumesDashboard command settings.
Note: Data-referenced volume surfaces cannot be added to the Volumes Dashboard directly. However, you can create a volume surface in the current drawing that uses data-referenced surfaces for the base and/or comparison surfaces.

To add an existing volume surface to the Volumes Dashboard

1. Click Analyze tab Volumes and Materials panel Volumes Dashboard.
2. In the Volumes Dashboard, click Add Volume Surface.
3. Select the volume surface and click OK.

After you add a volume surface to the Volumes Dashboard, you can add a bounded area if needed.

Each volume surface and bounded area that you add to the Volumes Dashboard has a check box next to it in the Volumes Dashboard. Select the check box next to a volume item to include the item in the total volumes graph, a report, or a cut/fill table.

Note: The total volumes graph does not display a representation of the volumes if no surfaces or bounded areas are selected, if both a volume surface and an associated bounded area of that volume surface are selected at the same time, or if any of the selected volume surfaces are out of date.