[Vince]

When I get this type of thing I’ll just use a provisional quantity based on tonnes / m3 (I guess that’ll be ton / cubic foot for you?).
Sometimes I’ll try to look at what will be in a lm of a ground beam etc. to provide a degree of backup but don’t go much further than that as the engineers all seem to come up with something different!

[David Cutler]

That’s a good approach for a conceptual estimate @Vince and I probably should have gone that way. I ended up using Sketch to Scale and Multiply Markups to get some general layout. Went to good old Excel in the in end to extend out my bar count and length. Got it done and the client seems pleased at this point so that’s the important part! 🙂

[Troy DeGroot]

If the total length of a bent bar around the box culvert is 6′-6″, you would have a column to enter that. Add a column indicating the bar spacing. Then your Polylength tool measures the length of the culvert, telling you how many bars based on the spacing. Last, build a formula column to multiply the bar length by the number of bars. Thoughts? Also, make a custom column for the bar size so you can sort by size and find those totals.

[David Cutler]

Great ideas @troy-degroot , thank you for the suggestions.

I’m so comfortable using my current custom tools/columns that I forget that I could simply add a few more, or create a different profile for this type of work. Thank you for the reminder! 🙂