Ezigrade can display the best way to grade the field. This is done via color and size coded arrows that show the direction of earth movement. At present we don't quantify the actual haul volume via distance. This will be a further update.

 

 

Preliminary:

 

Before running this option run the grading. This way we have a natural, design and cut/fill surface. The arrows calculated are based on the cut/fill surface. To run the routine click on either the View -> Haulage option or click the Haulage docked window icon seen toward the bottom left.

 

Once this is done click on the "Run" button on the left. The algorithm starts and can run upto 30 iterations. You can change the "grid num". At present we suggest a value between 20 and 50. The larger the number the longer the algorithm takes.

 

 

 

Once the algorithm is run it will prompt with an "Arrows Calculated". Click into the plan view and the arrows will be displayed.

 

 

You can see the arrows are color coded along the left from least (green) to most (reddidh brown). They are alsocoded by size as well. Looking at this job you can see that the main earth movement runs from the middle east towards the North West. At present we can show the arrows on a print as well as screen shots in the pdf report.

 

It is always a good idea to understand the job and understand why we are moving the dirt as we are. In Ezigrade click on Measure -> Define Section and click in a line from the north west to the mid east. Roughly along the line of the maximum earth movement.  Now click on Measure -> Display and  Window -> Tile Horizontal to emulate what we have below. You can see the new design in purple and the existing surface in black. You can see how we need to move all the dirt from the west towards the east which corresponds to the arrows in the plan view above. THe middle of the job is showing a large amount of dirt movement as we need to cart all the way from east to west and the dirt travels across this area without doing much in the middle.

 

 

 

 

You can also export this to google earth:

 

 

 

and in Google Earth we have this:

 

 

 

Taking a tablet out to the field with Google Earth would be a good way of getting a feel for the job before bringing out the heavy machinary.