Topcon Office Ideas

Request to have the ability to "batter" back to natural surface at user defined slopes within the "Takeoff - site balance" tool to allow accurate balancing of subgrade surface volumes.

Magnet Office already has the ability to undertake this function attached to the other site balance tool i.e. "Pad Design". I request that this ability to select batter slopes (and the ability to have different slopes at different chainages) be added to the Takeoff tool.

In addition, the "Takeoff - site balance" tool only allows you to balance the site from design layers and not through the use of a pre-existing design dtm.

In essence i want my workflow to look like this:

• design my pad "finished" surface dtm,

• use this dtm as the design dtm in "Takeoff" to balance the subgrade of that pre-existing surface against the natural surface with the ability to select batter slopes back to natural.

Seems to me that it's the logical next step to include this ability within Takeoff module. The inclusion of this feature would save design teams, such as ours, significant amounts of time money. As far as i know Magnet Office would be the only software package on the market that would offer this feature.