AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential

Calculating Quantities

Throughout the land development process—whether it's during the conceptual phase, design phase, or construction phase—there will be much attention focused on cost. As a designer, you will constantly receive inquiries about the cost to build certain parts of the project or even the entire project. A fundamental piece of information that you'll need in order to do a cost estimate is the quantity of each item or material. Civil 3D has several powerful tools that can extract quantity information from your design. In fact, you have already experienced one of them in Chapter 17 when you calculated cut and fill volumes for your grading design. In this chapter, you will study two more methods: using the QTO Manager and using section ...