Transcription: When performing landscape work, it is important to know how the land will look after the work is done. This usually means that the areas that have been dug out and the areas that have been filled in need to be shown. A cut and fill drawing shows where the tops of the cuts and the toes of the fills exist, with the cut portions and the filled portions cross-hatched to emphasize those areas. These areas are then assumed to be planar with their respective cut or fill ratios. Cut or fill ratios are the vertical to horizontal displacements for land that has been cut out or filled in to create new su ...
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