Tin Surface to Dynamo Geometry - Solid

Civil 3D
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Is there a better way to get dynamo geometry of a Tin Surface as a solid? I am using this sequence of nodes…

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2

What is your goal?
Do you just want the geometry only to be visible in Dynamo or do you want to continue to use the surface as a geometry in Dynamo?

This is a way

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3

goal is to obtain solid geometry in dynamo so I can perform earthwork analysis with Boolean subtraction between various solids.

topsoil volumes
cut
fill
import/export
etc

4

Like this?
Largest volume is fill
Smaller is cut

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5

Maybe another way to ask the question is…

Is it possible to create a dynamo solid from TIN SURFACE using the Mesh Toolkit? I have attempted and failed.

Curious if anyone else has had success?

6

But you still look for a workflow to create the solid for Volume quantification?

7

Correct.

I am able to create solids and compute earthwork volumes using the TinSurface.Extensions.CreateSolids node (as per your example).

However, this workflow takes a very long time to execute when working with larger surfaces.

So I am curious if there is a workflow that derives solid geometry from this node (or any other)…

Autodesk TinSurfaceExtensions.GetMesh

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