Viewing Total Volume and Total Surface Area

Closed and open surfaces have different icons that show you which type of surface it is:

Closed Surfaces

Total volume can be seen for closed surfaces in a geosurface file.

To view the total volume for a closed surface:

1. In the 3D Manager tree, select a closed surface.

2. Information about this surface, including the Volume is given after pressing the Properties button on the Attributes tab.

Open Surfaces

Total surface area can be seen for open surfaces in a geosurface file.

To view the total surface area for an open surface:

1. In the 3D Manager tree, select an open surface.

2. Information about this surface, including the Area is given after pressing the Properties button on the Attributes tab.