The ribbon, button by button¶

Every tab, group and button on the ribbon, with what each button does in the words of its tooltip (hold the mouse over a button in the program to see the same text). A button with no tooltip is described by its name alone.

The File tab, at the left end, opens the File page: see Projects and files.

Home¶

Always there. Everything for the input work, and every screen. See The screens at a glance.

Group	Button	What it does
Project	Save	Saves everything that changed: every route (field books and designs, with the workbook) and the section data (Ctrl+S)
Edit	Paste	At the selected cell of the route sheet in front (Ctrl+V)
	Cut	The selected cells of the route sheet in front (Ctrl+X)
	Copy	The selected cells of the route sheet in front (Ctrl+C)
	Delete	Clears the selected cells of the route sheet in front
	Undo	Undoes the last change to the route sheet in front (Ctrl+Z)
	Redo	Does again what Undo undid in the route sheet in front (Ctrl+Y)
	Select All	Selects the whole route sheet in front (Ctrl+A)
	Insert Row	Inserts a row at the selected row of the route sheet in front
	Remove Row	Takes the selected rows out of the route sheet in front
Find	Find	Finds text in the route sheets (the search bar above the sheet)
	Find Next	Finds the next match in the route sheets (the search bar's text)
	Replace	Finds text in the route sheets and replaces it
Routes	Route Editor	Shortcut: Ctrl+E
	New Route	Shortcut: F2
	Remove Route	Shortcut: Ctrl+R
	Check Data	Finds route data that would draw a cross section wrong (a point without a level, a design row without a template, a chainage without ground) and takes you to its row
View	Input	Input
	Cross Section	Cross Section
	Long Section	Long Section
	Plan	For a From coordinates route: bring its sheet to the front of the Routes workbook on the input screen
	Contour	Contours, a site boundary and the cut and fill to level it, from a point survey: contour jobs kept in the project
	Template Designer	Designs a template for the design routes: a canal, road, bund, railway or drain, or one drawn point by point (Ctrl+D)

Section¶

While the Cross Section or Long Section screen is in front. See Review the cross sections, Edit a section and Print sections.

Group	Button	What it does
View	Cross Section	The cross sections, one chainage at a time (also C/S in the bar above the drawing)
	Long Section	The long section through every chainage (also L/S in the bar above the drawing)
	Full Screen	The drawing over the whole screen, with the chainage and Mark reviewed floating over it (F11; Esc to come back)
	Animate	Goes through the cross sections one after another (speed in Animation Settings)
	All Points	Every point of every section in one table: slides out from the left edge (its pin keeps it there)
	Redraw	Draws the section in front again (F5)
	Reset Panels	The panels back where they were first laid out. Drag a panel by its title to put it beside, above or below another, or out to float; the layout is kept for next time.
	Section Tour	A short tour of where things are on the Section screen
Review	Mark Reviewed	Marks the section on screen reviewed and goes to the next one to review (Enter in the drawing or the chainage list)
	Next to Review	The next section not reviewed yet
	Mark to Review	Takes the review off the section on screen
	Revert Section	The section as it was last saved (Undo brings your changes back)
	Undo Rebuild	Every section back as it was before the last rebuild from the routes, hand edits and all
Edit	Undo	Undoes the last change to the route sheet in front (Ctrl+Z)
	Redo	Does again what Undo undid in the route sheet in front (Ctrl+Y)
	Shift Levels…	Raises or lowers the selected levels in the points table by an amount
	Insert Point	A point after the selected one in the points table, half way to the next
	Delete Point	Takes the selected point out of its series
	Round…	Rounds the selected values in the points table to a number of decimals
Quantities	Adjust to Target	Opens Adjust to a target area in the Quantities panel: moves a series' levels until its area reaches a target
Output	Print Sections	Lays out and prints the sections you choose
	Volume Abstract	Volume Abstract
	Export to AutoCAD…	The section on screen, or the long section, as a DWG or DXF file (Ctrl+E)
	Recalculate All Sections	Works out the cut and fill areas and toe points of every section again; the count shows on the status bar
Options	Section Settings	Shortcut: F8
	Close Section	Shortcut: Ctrl+F4

Template¶

While the Template Designer is in front. See Design a template and Share a template.

Group	Button	What it does
Type	Irrigation canals	Bed, FSD, lining, berms, banks
	Roads and pavements	Carriageway, shoulders, pavement layers
	Bunds and embankments	Top width, slopes, berms by height, HFL
	Railways	Formation, blanket, ballast, track
	Drains and sewers	Pipe trench, RCC or open drain
	Custom	Draw it in CAD, point by point
View	Fit View	The drawing fitted to the window (it stays fitted as the template changes, until you zoom or pan)
	Dimensions	Values you can click and handles you can drag
	All values	Also slopes, berms and lining
	Points	Point numbers and every slope
Template	Save to Project	Saves the template in this project; Design routes list it under Templates
	Open from Project	Opens one of the project's templates in the designer, or deletes one from the project
	Export .cst	Writes the template to a file for use in other projects
	Import .cst	Opens a template file shared from another project or a colleague
	New Template	Starts again from each type's first preset
Close	Close Designer	Closes the designer and goes back to the screen you were on (it asks to save changes)

Abstract¶

While the Volume Abstract is in front. See Volume abstract.

Group	Button	What it does
Abstract	Recalculate	Reads every section again and works the abstract out from them
	Settings Panel	The Abstract settings panel: the checks, the series, the chainage, the stretches left out and the factors
	Reset Panels	The settings panel back where it was first laid out
Method	Average End Area	The volume between two sections: their mean area times the distance
	Prismoidal	Simpson's rule over pairs of equal intervals; an interval left over by average end area
Output	Export to Excel	One workbook: the abstract, the chainage-wise statements and the mass haul, with formulas a checker can follow
	Print / PDF	Lays out the abstract, the statements and the mass haul with the sections' title block, to print or save as a PDF
	Copy Table	The table in front, to paste into Excel or Word
Close	Close Abstract	Closes the abstract (its settings stay with the route) and goes back to the screen you were on

Contour¶

While Contour is in front. See Contours from a point survey.

Group	Button	What it does
Job	Save to Project	Saves the job and its results in the project file
	New Job	A new contour job in this project: it asks for the name
	Rename Job	Renames the job in the project
	Delete Job	Removes the job and its results from the project (it asks first)
Surface	Import Points	The job's points from a CSV, TXT, XYZ, PTS or ASC file, in place of those it has
	Merge File…	Adds the points of another CSV, TXT, XYZ, PTS or ASC file to the job's
	Draw Boundary	Draws the job's boundary on the plan: click the corners, then the first corner again to close it
Calculate	Volume…	Cut and fill between the surface and a formation level, inside a boundary
	Pond Capacity…	The capacity and water spread at each level up to the full tank level, inside a boundary
	Sections…	Sections across an alignment every so many metres, each point's level from the surface; out as a CSV or a route
	Profile…	The ground's levels along a line every so many metres and where it crosses a contour, drawn as a long section on its print
View	Settings	Contour Settings: surface, contours, labels, points, cut and fill (F8)
	Fit View	The whole survey in view
	Points	The surveyed points, as crosses coloured by code
	Contours	The minor and major contours
	Cut / Fill	The shown result's cut and fill shading
	Spot Levels	Each point's level beside it, when zoomed in
	Labels	The major contours' levels along them
	Grid	The shown result's grid: cells, their numbers, and each node's level and depth
	TIN	The triangles of the surface
	Zero Line	Where the shown result's cut meets its fill
Output	Print / PDF	The plan on a sheet with the project's title block, to print or save as a PDF
	Export to AutoCAD…	The plan as a DXF or DWG file: contours, boundary and points, each on its own layer
	Export to Excel	The Points sheet and the shown result's sheets as an Excel file
Close	Close Contour	Closes Contour and goes back to the screen you were on (it asks to save changes)

Help¶

Always there.

Group	Button	What it does
Help	Video Help	Video Help
	Section Tour	A short tour of where things are on the Section screen (with a section view open)
	Contour Tour	How a contour job goes, from the points to cut and fill (with Contour open)
	Remote Support	Remote Support
	About	About