dipsticks

Your request for a program rather than equipment seems to indicate that you need to calculate the position(s) of the mark for one or more volumes.

For calculating the marks for a bulk petrol tank at a filling station a spreadsheet could do it for you.

For a level tank you could calculate the area of the whetted end part x tank length.

does any body have a excel spreadsheet to help me i am a boilermaker who is asked to do a job

Yes, though CR4 cannot be used to transfer files. The one here is used to convert level into volume for a domestic heating oil storage tank.

It's easy enough to work it out from first principles, using the mathematical formulae in oh, say, Kempe's Engineers' Yearbook (other books are available), any edition.

Note: with some of those calculators you have to be careful with the heads on cylindrical tanks - some only allow for flat heads on horizontal cylindrical tanks.

This program may be of some use to you:

http://www.postmixing.com/Products/product_tank_volume.htm

Just curious - exactly what style tank do you have? Rectangular, Cylindrical (horizontal/vertical) what style heads?

the tanks store bitumen the dipsticks need to be remade the tanks are horizontal with dome ends

This is the website/calculator you want then :

http://www.arachnoid.com/tank_volume/

Are any of these what you are looking for?

http://grapevine.abe.msstate.edu/~fto/tools/vol/index.html

1. http://grapevine.abe.msstate.edu/~fto/tools/vol/outcylinder.html
2. http://grapevine.abe.msstate.edu/~fto/tools/vol/parthcylinder.html

http://www.northlandstainless.com/volume_calculator.cfm

http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app19/calc/volume/vtank.jsp

http://www.regaltanks.co.uk/calculator/regal_calc.pl

http://www.visualtrig.com/Circles.aspx

Tank manufacturers have charts based on tank diameter, and length. Try contacting one. I used to have two charts for the two underground fuel tanks we had here.