Feature Requests

Good morning and Happy New Year,

I'm currently working on a road widening project and thought of a couple of features that would be handy

Firstly a back fill feature, for example, in my current project the road is widened up to new concrete retaining walls and the ability to quantify the void fill behind the retaining walls from sub-formation to formation level would be a great time saver.

Secondly, the ability to view the completed works in 3D. At present we can only view each element individually.

Only some thought I had which might find there way into future updates.

Cheers

Tim

Hi Tim, and happy new year to you too!

Thanks for the feedback. 

I'm be really interested if you could send us an example drawing for the back-fill problem you described.  We do have a back-fill element planned, but what we had in mind was to return the ground levels of the back-fill area to the levels in a previous phase.  It sounds as though this wouldn't resolve the scenario you are struggling with.  I'd be really interested to see exactly what you're working with before we start developing that one.  We may even have some ideas about how you could do it with the software at the moment.

Viewing a cut and fill map of the whole site should be quite easy in the next LandXml release.  It will have the ability to import surfaces from separate phases of other Kubla Cubed files, and also from LandXml.  This should make the software a lot more flexible.  For instance in your case you could just make a new file, load the existing ground from your original file as your first phase and the last phase of the original file as your second phase, and you will see a cut and fill map for the whole project.

By the way, LandXml is also really useful for machine control and various surveying instruments.  It's quite widely used across the different software and hardware vendors.

Cheers,

Leo