Ezigrade 2.0.49

Ezigrade now includes the option to put out strings to the Trimble Field level II controller. This is handy for Civil Engineering type as you can see on the screen edge of drains, edge of roads, ring tanks etc. At present can't put out both strings and section edges together - maybe next update. 

Ezigrade 2.0.48

When moving a node where sections intersect the section edge heights are updated automatically when you move the node and associated section edges.

Have added in the following features to display both main grade and cross grade.

• When moving the cursor the main grade and cross grade is displayed in status pane in lower right.
• The contour parameters - surface colors now has options to shade the grades with respect to either the main grade or the cross grade.

When displaying the job in CDS2 the triangles are displayed as by color. The color being set in Ezigrade. This is because CDS doesn't know about grades and cross grades. Update CDS2 from members page as well.

When displaying grades the surface colors dialog puts in more appropriate default grades.

The picture below shows the cross grades.

CDS 2.6.0.13 and Ezigrade

Feature added that allows one to switch seamlessly between running a job in CDS and then running the job in Ezigrade. If you are in running a job in CDS2 then from "file menu - close and open in ezigrade" then job is opened within Ezigrade. If Ezigrade is not running then it is started up. If it is already running the job is opened with the current instance of Ezigrade. This also works when going from Ezigrade to CDS2.

Ezigrade 2.0.46

When creating Trimble Field Level FMX .gps file the benchmark points were incorrect.

Ezigrade 2.0.45

Fixups with Trimble .gps import and export.

The .gps file contains two blocks of data. The first one contains design heights. The min and max limits along X and Y axis were not always correct and was leading to a mismatch with the total number of points in the array.

The second array contains the amount of cut and fill in an array. The total number of points for this array was not always correct. We were also putting out this data reversed. ie cut was being put out as a fill value and vice versa. On Trimble FMX display this was showing with the colours reversed from what was expected. The grading still works OK though as bucket is driven from current GPS height and design value in the design array.

When exporting the Field Level 2 file we have added in a progress bar so that user knows something is still happening.

CDS 2.6.0.10

When creating short line / short arc tables the reference number was doubled up in the shortline and the short arc table. For example if there were three arcs there defining reference numbers were 1,2 and 3. The first three short lines were the same. This has been fixed.

CDS 2.6.0.9

When exporting to Leica instruments / machines etc via dbx file the strings went missing. Leica road runner expects strings to be exported to the intermediate landxml file as a "planfeature". We had changed them to alignments.