To export a report click on the File menu item, then Create Report and finally Input Data or Estimation, depending on the report you wish to create. The report can be saved in the MS Word (.docx) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
Input Data Report
A report of the user input data, including all properties, boundary areas and perimeters. The report can be useful for validating input data and using boundary perimeter and area values in a bill of quantities (BOQ) or for doing further calculations on the data.
The report will contain the input data that has been entered by the user into the program. It contains no information regarding earthworks calculations (cut & fill); that information is contained in the earthworks estimation report. The count, area and length measurement elements will only appear in this report as they have no relevance to the earthworks estimate.
Notes on Boundary 2D Area and 2D Perimeter : The boundary areas and boundary perimeters in the input data report relate to the element boundary lines that have been input by the user. They will often differ considerably from the areas in the earthworks estimation report which are calculated from the earthworks area of disturbance.
Volume region elements are not allowed to overlap each other. Where one volume region is inside another, the area of the internal volume region will be removed from the external one. The area and perimeters presented for volume regions in the report are the areas after they have undergone this processing.
Estimation Report
A report of the earthworks estimations, including levels, volumes and depths can be exported to a .xlsx file. The report can be useful for building into an earthworks bill of quantities (BOQ) report or for doing further calculations on the data.
This report will contain the earthworks estimation output calculated by the program. This includes cut\fill volumes, depths and areas. The earthworks estimate is completed for all earthworks in the phase. In addition it can contain the following breakdowns.
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Breakdown by Element: The element breakdown will show you the cut & fill contribution of each element in a phase, based on the disturbance areas of each element. This can be very useful if different earthworks have been represented by different elements (e.g. roads, building pads, gardens etc...). If elements intersect then consider how to attribute the cut & fill in the intersecting areas. The approach used in Kubla Cubed is to report the cut & fill to the element that appears lowest in the calculation order. This correlates to the way that element elevations override each other in most scenarios, the lower element takes priority.
It is important to note that the element breakdown does not calculate cut & fill between elements. In Kubla Cubed within each phase, all earthworks elements are combined into a single surface and cut & fill is calculated between the resulting proposed surface and the ground surface. However, multiple phases can be used if you want to calculate cut and fill between multiple surfaces. The earthworks report is helpful for viewing the breakdown by element regions, as it has a diagram above each element breakdown table.
- Breakdown by Region: If volume region elements exist in a phase, a breakdown by region will be completed. A region within a region will be handled by first calculating the outer region excluding the inner region and then calculating the inner region separately.
Notes on Earthworks Estimation 2D and 3D Areas : 2D and 3D areas in the earthwork estimation report relate to the earthworks footprint (sometimes referred to as the area of disturbance). For the area and perimeter of the element boundaries refer to the input data report. The 2D areas reported are the same as if measured from a paper plan. The 3D areas take into account the surface area of the topography and therefore will always be the same or larger than the 2D areas.
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