*Edit: I am using OpenRoads Designer 2020 R3
I have a spreadsheet that requires the drainage areas for a ditch to be input every 50 feet right and left along an alignment. The “manual” method I would use to accomplish this would be to use the measure area by flood tool and type the areas in to my spreadsheet as I measure them. However, as my alignment is nearly 5 miles long, and there are multiple areas for each station range left and right (pavement, inside construction limits, outside construction limits, this would require measuring nearly 3000 areas and inputting them manually. This is an insanely laborious process, and if anything in my design changes, I’d have to go back and measure them all over again.
Upon thinking of how to speed up this task, I thought I might create a region for each area, then label with a text favorite for region area. Then I’d have an area label that is documented in the DGN and updates if the areas change. I’d label every associative region in a batch process, then go back and input them in to my spreadsheet as I read the labels. This seems like an improvement, but is still laborious.
I then discovered that I could create a Report that lists the areas of all associative regions in the model. This seems like it could speed things up significantly, especially since I could export it to a .csv. However, I am not sure if I’d be able to tell what station range each area was associated with.
I know I could separate the areas by type (pavement, inside construction limits, outside construction limits) by placing the regions on respective levels I create.
Is there a way to add a column in the report that shows the station range that the areas correspond to, as well as if it is right or left?
Oops... I accidentally deleted the replies. Forum noob mistake.
Mark Shamoun responded with a good solution: Create meshes from the elements and run a Quantities by Named Boundary Report.
This seems to achieve what I'm going for quite well.