Nudge: temporary depth adjustment

Nudge lets you raise or lower the target depth temporarily without changing your saved design. The most common reason: the soil is harder than expected and the scraper cannot reach final grade in one pass.

How nudge works:

• Each tap of Nudge Up raises the target by 2″ (the blade goes shallower).
• Each tap of Nudge Down lowers it by 2″ (the blade goes deeper).
• The current nudge shows in the stats bar as e.g. "+4″" or "-2″".
• Range is effectively unlimited (±999″) — nudge can act as a progressive depth offset across many passes. (Only the Tiling rock-hit auto-nudge stays clamped at ±24″.)
• Tap Reset to clear nudge back to 0.

The blade follows target + nudge. Nudge is not saved to your design — it is a session offset.

Multi-pass grading without Auto-Nudge:

Suppose your design wants an 8″ cut and your scraper handles 2″ per pass.

• Pass 1: tap Nudge Up three times → target is "+6″" above design. Drive the route, you cut 2″.
• Pass 2: tap Nudge Down once → "+4″". Drive again, you cut another 2″.
• Pass 3: "+2″". Drive again, another 2″.
• Pass 4: tap Reset to "0″" (final). Drive the last pass.

That works but every pass needs hand adjustment. Auto-Nudge automates this — see the next page.

Sensitivity setting

Settings → GRADING → Nudge Sensitivity changes the per-tap step. Default 2″ in imperial (0.17 ft in Decimal Feet mode — same stored step), 5 cm metric. Halve it to 1″ if you want finer control.

Nudge and Auto-Nudge are mutually exclusive. While Auto-Nudge is on, the Nudge Up / Nudge Down buttons are replaced by Pass + / Pass − in the sidebar — manual nudge taps have no effect on the target. Turn Auto-Nudge off in Settings → GRADING (or via the toggle in the stats bar) to get the manual nudge buttons back. The two systems can't be used together.