Leveling: grade a flat pad to one elevation

Tap Leveling

On the Home screen, tap the Leveling card, the second card in the top row, with a picture of a flat brown pad.

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Tap Connect

In the Leveling — Connect window, tap the big green Connect button at the top. To practise, tap Simulate, the second button. With Ditch Assist Lite the top button reads Emlid Reach.

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Tap Continue

Wait until the three System Check rows show green ticks, the last one RTK Fixed. Then tap the green Continue button.

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Find the target bar

There are no more choices: the Grade screen opens with a bar of boxes and buttons along the bottom. Start, in the column on the right, stays pale until a target is set. The orange Resume under it opens your saved jobs (below).

Set the target one of two ways: type a surveyed elevation (next two steps), or take it from where the blade is (Use Current, step 7).

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Type the target elevation

Tap the Target Elevation (ft) box, bottom left ((m) in metric). A number keyboard opens. Type the pad elevation. It must come from the same survey or plan as your benchmark's elevation. Hide the keyboard with the tick key (typing and hiding the keyboard).

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Tap Set Target

Tap the green Set Target button, right of the box. The first time, a Name Job window opens (next step).

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Or: tap Use Current

No surveyed elevation? Put the cutting edge on the ground where the finished pad should be, then tap the blue Use Current button. It takes the GPS elevation (with the benchmark offset applied) and sets the target at once; no Set Target needed.

Use Current and Dig This Deep need a GPS fix: without one they're greyed out.

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Type a name for the job

The first time you set a target, a window asks: Give this job a name so it is easy to find in Resume Job. The box holds the date and time. Tap it, clear it with the keyboard's delete key, and type the site name.

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Tap Save

Tap Save, bottom right of the window. Skip, beside it, keeps the date-and-time name.

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Check the target

You should see Target (ft) in the top bar show your target, and the box at the bottom of the depth guide show how far the blade is from it. Start turns green, and an amber Change Target button appears on the right.

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Type a depth

Tap the Depth Below Bucket (ft) box, in the middle of the bar along the bottom, and type the depth, for example 0.5 for half a foot.

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Tap Dig This Deep

Tap the orange Dig This Deep button, right of the box. The target becomes the anchor minus that depth.

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Check the new target

You should see the Target Elevation box show the new target, for example 806.89. A Clear Offset button under it, now orange, puts the target back on the anchor.

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Tap Start

Lower the blade to the ground, then tap the green Start button, second from the top on the right.

If the Elevation Mismatch Check is on in Settings (it's off to start with), Start warns when the target is far from the ground under you: usually a stale benchmark or a typo (Alerts and safety settings).

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Cut the high spots, fill the low ones

You should see a red Auto Grading Active banner at the top of the depth guide. With Ditch Assist Lite you get guidance only. The box at the bottom of the guide shows how far the cutting edge is from the target: CUT means you're above it, FILL below.

Carry soil from the cuts to the fills. Behind the machine, a trace paints every cell the blade passes: green within 1″ of the target; yellow, orange and red for one, two and three or more passes of cutting left; blue more than 1″ too low. Keep going until the pad is all green. The coverage saves with the job.

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Tap the depth guide to fold it into a thin GRADE rail when you want more map; tap again to open it. More: Grade / Depth guide.

Nudge the target if you need to

Each tap of Nudge Up or Nudge Down, the blue buttons on the right, moves the working target 2″, for example to leave the pad a little high for compaction. The number between them shows the nudge. Set it back to 0″ for the finish pass. Leveling has no Auto-Nudge.

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Tap Hold to pause

Tap the grey Hold button, under Stop, to stop blade commands without leaving grading. It turns into an orange Resume: tap it to carry on. Ditch Assist Lite has no Hold: tap Stop instead.

Raise and Lower, the green and red buttons lower down, move the implement while you hold them down, with a control module and valve connected.

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Tap Stop when the pad is done

Tap the red Stop button at the top of the column. The job saves itself with the target, nudge and coverage.

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Tap Change Target

Tap the amber Change Target button on the right, under Hold (under Reset when you're not grading). Grading stops and the target clears.

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Set the new target

You should see Start turn pale and the target bar come back. The box still holds the old target, and the nudge is kept. Edit the number and tap Set Target (or use Use Current or Dig This Deep). Check the nudge, then tap Start.

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Tap Resume

Open Leveling and connect (steps 1 to 3 above). With no job running, tap the orange Resume button on the right, under Start. A window called Resume Job opens.

If the Leveling card on Home shows ACTIVE, tapping it asks Start New Session? first. Start New clears the screen, not your saved jobs.

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Tap Resume on your job

The list shows jobs from every workflow, newest first. Find the one marked (Leveling) and tap its orange Resume button. It restores the target, nudge and coverage.

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Tap Calibrate on a new day

Resuming asks Calibrate GPS?. Its tip about a zero cut/fill spot is generic: use your site benchmark. On a new day, tap Calibrate and calibrate to the site benchmark, never on the pad you've already cut. Same day, same base setup: tap Skip.

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Check the target, then tap Start

Check the target in the top bar and the nudge are what you expect. Then lower the blade and tap the green Start.

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