Here is a screen shot of initial view when a job is opened within Ezigrade. The display is broken into a number of discrete area's.

 

 

 

Top Row:

 

Here we have the Ezigrade icon and quick access buttons. Clicking on the icon brings up File commands and Most Recently Used "MRU" list.

 

 

We also have a toolbar holding quick acess buttons. If they are too small to use on your tablet device then you also have the option of working through the full menu item below. This is a screen shot of the toolbar items:

 

 

From left to right we have:

 

File -> New

File -> Open

File -> Close

Combo box to change displayed surface

Current Surface parameters

Current Surface Colors

Display points

Display point numbers

Display heights

Display design heights

Display difference heights

Display codes

Display descriptions

Display triangles (digital terrain model)

Display contours

Display water flow

Display drain

Zoom extents

Zoom window

Measure grade and distance

Measure area

 

There is also a little drop arrow that allows you to enter any other menu commands as necessary. At present this is not stored between sessions but is on the list.

 

Menu Row:

 

 

 

 

The main menu items are in the top row. ie File, Import, Export etc and the corresponding sub-menu items are displayed in the ribbon below. Each of these menu items are discussed in the pages below.

 

File Menu

Import Menu

Export Menu

GPS Menu

Fields Menu

View Menu

Grading Menu

Contour Menu

Measure Menu

Tools Menu

Drain Menu

Banks Menu

Pipes Menu

Reports Menu

Window Menu

Keyboard Menu

Help Menu

 

 

Left Docking Window:

 

To the left of the main view window we have a window docked to the left of the display. It is possible to allow this window to float or you could dock it to the right of the display if you really must. However we suggest that to leave it docked to the left. If you look toward the bottom of this docked window you can see 4 icons. You can display different docked windows here depending on what you need to do at the time.

 

Please click on the appropriate link to view further details of the different docking windows available:

 

 

Fields, use this to set up parameters to use in grading routine.

Grid, display and set grid rotation, cell size etc

GPS, use this when using Ezigrade to pick up GPS data directly.

Best Fit Drain, use this to create profile of drain or tile drain to certain parameters.

Points, Edit and view point data.

Results, Grading volume summary.

Messages, warnings and errors.