Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
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Does anyone know of a program to find area when provided with cross sections in pdf.
Does adobe pdf provide anything that can perform that function.
Does adobe pdf provide anything that can perform that function.





RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
http://cdg-ca.com
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DRG
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RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
And yes, there was something to be said for the smell of fresh prints, but much more to be said with plan scanners/copiers. I first got that smell when I took drafting in high school., but the place I started at after college got rid of theirs shortly after our lab merged in with the rest of the office.
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
So what was dcidci's solution?
CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
http://cdg-ca.com
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
http://cdg-ca.com
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
http://www.dotsoft.com/
I am not affiliated with Dotsoft other than being a customer.
Terry S.
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Can adobe figure out volumes given a site map with existing and new contours? How about dotsoft.
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
http://cdg-ca.com
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
Remember, Adobe is based on programs for graphics, not engineering, and PDF's were intended just to provide a way to easily allow people to see documents that they may not have had the original program for (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, etc.)
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DRG
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
http://cdg-ca.com
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There maybe more, google it.
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
CDG, Los Angeles Civil Engineering specializing in Hillside Grading
http://cdg-ca.com
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
RE: Software for finding area from a pdf provided cross section
If you can create a set of coordinates for each point (use any aribtrary scale, just be sure you can create a coordinate for each vertex.) Then, by use of the irregular cross section area algorithim, you can compute double the volume, then just divide by 2.
see
www.tpub.com/inteng/10e.htm
for the procedure.
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Adobe Pro is an expensive program, but I've found in the past couple of years that it is well worth the money, for the measure and scale tools as well as other little pieces of goodness. I particularly like the stamp tool, which I've created a stamp for my seal (from a cad file) and am able to put it on any pdf with a few clicks, print and sign.
I too have used a planimeter, I'm 32. I've also used a slide rule, however that one was just out of curiosity. The functionality of both tools are amazing to me.