Calculate volume from min height from shape

[MichalDV]

Hi,

we had a project where customer has given us a shape file with exact heights/depths of foundations that needed digging. It was a curved road going down a slope. I was surprised to find out Metashape cannot calculate volume above such shape but only uses fitted plane for calculations.

Would it be possible to calculate volume not from a fitted plane but from surface constructed by shape with Z values?

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello MichalDV,

Can you share an example of such shape?

[dpitman]

Hi Alexey,

I don't want to interfere with this request but I have a related feature request.  For work in material stockpile estimates, we commonly have piles that abut other piles or banks or walls of some sort.  The options in MS don't give us any options to deal with these problems. 

Currently we move the project to Global mapper where we can specify the elevation value at each vertex in order to shape the base plane based upon conditions.  In MS, the program already knows the calculated elevation value at each vertex, but there is no means to adjust or edit those values to modify the base plane.

The ability to do that in MS is my feature request.

Thank you!
Dave