BONUS CHAPTER 1 From Design to Construction You have completed all the major design tasks in the example project. It’s now time to prepare for construction by documenting your design, determin- ing material quantities, and estimating construction costs. In this chapter, you'll learn how to use your design model to perform these tasks. In this chapter, you'll learn to Calculate quantities Create individual sheets Create multiple sheets using Plan Production Calculating Quan ‘Throughout the land-development process—whether it's during the conceptual phase, design phase, or construction phase—much attention is focused on cost. As a designer, you'll constantly receive inquiries about the cost to build certain parts of the project or even the entire project. A fundamental piece of information you'll need in order to do a cost estimate is the quantity of each item or material. There are several powerful AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software tools that can extract quantity information from your design. In fact, you already experienced one of them in Chapter 17, “Designing New Terrain,” when you calculated cut and fill volumes for your grading design. In this chapter, you'll study two more methods: using QTO Manager and using sectional volumes. Calculating Quantities Using QTO Manager QTO Manager is an all-purpose utility for compiling information about quantities in your design. (QTO stands for quantity takeoff.) When you click QTO Manager on the Analyze ribbon tab, Panorama opens, displaying anew tab titled QTO Manager (see Figure BC1.1). The main feature of thisPeake eee tab is the pay ifem list. Each pay item in the list can be assigned to any number of objects in the drawing. QTO Manager works with nearly any type of Civil 3D or AutoCAD® software entity. FIGURE BC1.1 TheQTOManagertab of Panorama You may already have noticed that certain Civil 3D objects have a Pay Item prop- erty that is integrated into the object's properties. For example, a pipe-network parts list has a Pay Item column in which you can associate a pipe or structure with one of the same pay items that QTO Manager uses (see Figure BC1.2) FIGURE BC1.2_ Apipe-network parts list with the pay-item assignments highlighted ‘The code-set styles you used in Chapter 10, “Creating Cross Sections of the Design,” and Chapter 11, “Displaying and Annotating Sections,” to control the dis- play and labeling of corridor sections can also be used to assign pay items to a cor- ridor (see Figure BC1.3).SE Rew ie Etaouoa Raw far FIGURE BC1.3 Acode-set style with pay-item assignments highlighted Once you have assigned pay items to objects in your drawing, you can execute the Takeoff command, which gathers up all the quantities and presents them to you in a report. Exercise BC1.1: Calculate Quantities Using QTO Manager In this exercise, you'll use QTO Manager to capture quantities for light poles, pavement, and curb, Ifyou haven't already done so, go to the book's web page at wav. sybex..con/ g0/civi13d2015essentials and download the files for Bonus Chapter 1. Unzip the files to the correct location on your hard drive according to the instructions in the Introduction, Then, follow these steps: 1. Open the drawing named Calculating Quantities Using QTO.dug located in the Bonus Chapter 1 class data folder. The top-right viewport is zoomed in to the recreation area, where you can see the proposed parking lot. Several symbols representing light poles are located around the perimeter of the parking lot. The paved area has been hatched with a dot pattern. 2. Click the Analyze tab of the ribbon, and then click QTO Manager. Panorama opens, displaying the QTO Manager tab. 3. Right-click Lumen Type A, and then click Assign Pay Item, as shown. in Figure BC1.4,