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Land Forming

Chapter of the Ditch Assist app manual. The same text is in the app under Manual.

In the app Manual › Land Forming

What this mode is for

Land Forming is for grading a 3D field surface from a design file produced by drainage / land-leveling software (Geo-Surface™, EZ-Grade, AGD design tools, Civil 3D, Trimble, Bentley, and similar). You don't survey — you import. The whole field becomes the design surface, and the blade is automatic anywhere inside the design boundary.

Use Land Forming when:

  • A drainage engineer or your design software handed you an XYZP, AGD, or LandXML file.
  • You need to grade an entire field, not a single ditch or slope.
  • You want section-by-section grading with imported benchmarks.

Workflow at a glance:

  1. Connect to the controller.
  2. From the Forming wizard, tap Import XYZP File, Import AGD File, or Import LandXML.
  3. Pick your .xyz, .xyzp, .agd, or LandXML file in the dialog that opens. Wait for the surface to triangulate.
  4. The Grade screen opens with the cut/fill overlay on the map.
  5. Drive to a benchmark (or any stable point), set the BM.
  6. Tap Start and grade. The blade target updates as you drive.

There is no survey step in this mode. The design IS the survey + the proposed surface.

Land Forming import dialog — pick the design file from disk.
Land Forming import dialog — pick the design file from disk.

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