Installation
Software Installation
Digitizer Setup (choose Hardware for configuring older boards)
PDF Takeoff
Starting a New Job (example file: Pine Street Raster Example.pdf right-click to save)
Scaling (this example
Entering Existing Ground
Entering the Job limits (Existing Perimeter)
Contour Entry
Spot elevations, ridges and swales
Saving
3D visual inspection
Varying Stripping Depths
Holes
Reports
Entering Design (pine street stripping.esw)
Pads
Lines with varying elevation (top of curb)
Offset lines
Design contours
Retaining walls
Checking with 3D views
Entering Grading limits (Design Perimeter)
Perimeter Holes
Report Regions
Sections
3D Views
Calculating Volumes
Volume Report
Printing (Pine Street Complete.esw)
Printer setup
3D views
The Print Page
Volumes Report
PlanView
Profile Views
Text entry
Exporting a KMZ (Google Earth) File
Haul Planning
Entering a Haul
Applying the Haul
Draw the Haul Path
Haul Worksheet
Haul Information
Modeling
CAD Transfer Window
Transferring CAD Layers
Snap
From Label
Increment
Spot Elevations
Adding Points
Line Snap
CAD File Cleanup (sample file: Earthwork 3D File Cleanup.esw)
Join
Compress
Trim Lines
Label Select with Wildcards (sample file: Label Selection.esw)
Editing and Creating 3D surfaces
Modeling tools
Sectional Areas (Advanced)
Exporting
For Topcon and Trimble Machine Control (sample file: Pine Street 3D Model.esw)
Highway
Starting a New Job (sample file:Highway Tutorial 1.pdf)
Entering Cross Sections
Importing PDFs
Scaling
Tracing cross sections
Important Concepts – Highway Views, Reports, Files
Cross Sections Window
Basic Volumes and 3D Views
Printing Reports
Mass Diagram Reports (sample file: Vasco Road.esw)
Creating 3D Surfaces Date
Cross Section Entry Variations
Stripping the Existing
Adding Sectionals to the Design
Highway Modeling
Entering the Vertical COGO (sample file: Highway3DHorizontalComplete.esw)
Using Travelway Transitions (sample file: Travelway Transitions.esw)
Editing COGO
Deleting Segments
Importing Files
Entering Cross Sections from a DGN File (sample file: DGN Cross Section.dgn)
Entering Cross Sections from a DWG File (sample file: DWG Cross Section.dwg)
Importing COGO
Importing Cross Sections
Applications
Correcting a Bad Scale with Stretch (sample files: Pine Stree Stretch.esw, Architectural Stretch.esw)
PDF specific
Aligning Multiple Vector PDF Files (sample files: Vector PDF 1.esw, Vector PDF 1.pdf, Vector PDF 2.pdf)
Importing a Google Earth Image as a background (sample file: American Center.esw)
Entering PDF Cross Section Matchlines (files: Highway 3D Matchline.esw, Matchline.pdf)
Entering End Areas (files: Cross Section End Areas.crs)
Moving Plan Sheets
Creating Contours (sample files: Pine Street Topo.esw)
Scaling multiple Plan sheets
Lowest Surface Creation (sample files: Walnut Grove Lowest.esw)
Converting Metric Takeoffs to Feet (sample files: Pine Street Metric.esw)
Creating Circles, Rectangles, Arcs, and Fillets
Conforming Annotation Sample Files: Conform Current Surface.esw, Conform Design Lines.esw
Exporting Reports to Excel (sitework)
Exporting Reports to Excel (highway)
Advanced Offset Lines
Changing Takeoff Scales
Adding surfaces
Moving Jobs
Autonomous GPS
Importing Survey Data (sample files: Pine Street Topo CSV.esw, Pine Street Topo.csv)
Miscellaneous
Saving an Image presenter compatible file
RTK GPS (optional)