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Problem with units when creating a TIN from contours


JGuthrie

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Currently, I am trying to make a TIN from predefined contours of both the existing ground as well as the proposed ground so that I can perform volume computations. I am able to create the surface but the problem I am having is getting the units of the contours and the units of the surface to agree.

 

For example, I was given a file from the surveyors that has contour lines with elevations ranging from 175 to 185 feet. When I make a TIN surface from the contours, it converts the elevations of the contours into feet, making my surface elevations range from approx. 14.5 to 15.5 feet and thus throwing off the volume calculations but a factor of 12^3.

 

Can anyone help me get this straigtened out? Is there a setting that I am missing or something to cause this to happen?

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I am using 2D polylines at an elevation. When I encountered this problem today, the first thing I did was to check the units which I changed from "unitless" to "feet". Also, another engineer that I work with tried the same operation on other files given to us by our surveyors and experienced the same problem with disagreement of the elevation units. Any suggestions?

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