Calculate Cut/Fill for a Level Patio

picked that point the first point you said inside yep right in the center yeah and it's telling us it's 2.2 ft below this point so if we want to make it level to that point we need to go to cuton fill which is the edit menu cut and fill and now we need to adjust the level to minus 2.2 22 in which is 26 in so if you go back down to minus 26 in so I can actually just type it right in or I can use the slider to get me to where I want to go either one whatever you want okay so now this actually shows me exactly how much cut how much fill I've got to do so in this this scenario I've got to cut 5.4 cubic yards from the upper echelon the upper deck area but down below that benchmark point I have to fill 6.8 cubic yards to create a flat level plane that I can put a patio on precisely so it's that fast it took me what 3 minutes and now I know all of my excavation measurements now this can work this is a small site but you could do my entire swamp if I wanted to know how much cut and fill I needed to balance out this entire area I could do that so it's not limited by space no not at all I mean now I've seen measurements of six or seven acres six or seven acres okay but now I want to change this I don't want to remeasure this thing I want to put a pond in here and I want to go from that elevation I want that to be water and I want to go 5 foot deep right from that from elevation