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Design Data Prep

Trimble's TERRAMODEL Product Family
 
Terramodel delivers significant time savings by providing solutions for all construction projects. It provides tools for the essential tasks of bid estimating, volume analysis, and data preparation for stakeout and machine control. Data flows seamlessly from the original survey to the design and then to construction stakeout or machine control without the need for data exchange or the reformatting of information.
 
The software’s modular approach allows you to utilize only the components you require at a given time, while giving you the flexibility to expand to meet new needs as they arise.
 
  • CAD Module: Provides unique and powerful drafting functionality to specifically address the critical production issues faced by civil engineers and surveyors.
  • COGO Module: Provides highly accurate design and survey geometric calculations.
  • Contour Module: Efficiently models very large data sets. 
  • Site Design Module: A powerful surface design tool.
  • Roadway Module: Designs, roads, streets, multi-lane highways, airstrips, canals, earth dams and more.
  • Sewer Design Module: Gives you the power to analyze and design sanitary sewer and storm drainage systems.
  • Hydrology Module: Perform hydrology analysis.
  • Image Manager Module: Enables you to import, view, design on and plot raster images. It provides the ideal backdrop for mapping, design and land planning functions.
  •  ASAP Module: Automated Sheet Assembly and Production – provides drafting automation features.

Trimble Paydirt® SiteWork

The Trimble Paydirt® SiteWork module is a powerful estimator's tool. It is used for calculating site earthwork and material quantities, and performing detailed analysis of a site project. The software allows estimators to determine excavation cut and fill volumes, and strip volumes for an entire site or for selected regions of a site.  Material areas and volumes for asphalt, concrete, base and other materials can also be calculated and converted to tons.

Paydirt SiteWork is versatile, fast and remarkably easy to use. Simply digitize or import plan view data, and with the click of a button you can run volume reports, 3 dimensional views of the site, color shaded cut / fill location maps, and much more.  The software's import capabilities allow for survey data of an existing site to be compared with design data for the future site. By comparing the design with the real world you can easily verify the accuracy of the plans before any dirt is moved.

Once the surface data is in Paydirt SiteWork, you can create 3D color surface models and examine the surface model from any angle of rotation. This lets you verify the accuracy of the data, enhance presentations and improve communication with prospective customers.

Paydirt SiteWork produces detailed excavation and material volume reports that allow you to generate bank cut and fill volumes, and account shrink and swell to get adjusted cut and fill numbers.  Total area of cut and area of fill is provided to help determine production rates along with strip volumes.  Material areas, volumes and converted quantities are provided and totaled by type of material.  All text reports can be saved to an Excel file format enabling easy import into spreadsheets and construction bidding software.

 

 

Features and benefits

 

  • Terramodel CAD module.
    Import AutoCAD, MicroStation, Terramodel and other engineering site design files.  Create site designs for Design/Build projects.
  • Cut and Fill volumes for the entire site or individual areas
    Get the quantities you need for the entire project and break them up for the different phases of a project.
  • Topsoil and unsuitable stripping materials
    Keeps strip material quantities separate from useable dirt volumes.
  • Subgrade Adjustments
    Adjust site from finished grade to subgrade for accurate earthwork volumes and select fill material quantities
  • Concrete, Asphalt, Base or other selected fill material areas and volumes
    One takeoff produces strip, mass excavation, and select fill material quantities.
  • Areas of cut and fill
    Helps you determine production rates and equipment use.
  • Reports areas, volumes, center of gravity, average and maximum depth of individual cut and fill areas.
    Helps you plan how you want to excavate your project and determine what equipment to use.
  • Color shaded Cut/Fill and Staking map
    Shows you where cuts and fills are located and provides rough grade staking information.
  • Cut cross-sections or profiles at any location on the site
    Get a better feel for the site and view
  • Site Balance Report with selectable areas of interest
    Balance import or export by adjusting selected areas of the site.
  • Graphic color shaded 3D, Cut / Fill Location, and Surface Contour Reports
    Visually check the accuracy of your takeoff so you can bid with confidence.
  • Professional Graphic and Text reports
    Produce professional presentations for negotiated work and improve communications with the field personnel, owners and engineers.
 
 
Trimble Business Center - Heavy Construction Edition
 
 
Trimble® Business Center - Heavy Construction Edition (HCE) software is ideal for construction data preparation and managing the provision of data to and from construction field crews.
 
Trimble Business Center - HCE puts emphasis on the efficient management of data for multiple field crews operating on a single job site at any time. Using Trimble Business Center - HCE, contractors can import, review and analyze digital design information and easily assign, manage and track that information through the lifetime of a construction project.
 
 
Key features include:
  • Reliable digital design data import from multiple data sources
  • Graphical visualization of design data and field measurement records
  • Automated routing of data to and from controllers and that the field and office are always working from the same data sets
  • Automatic detection of data discrepancies between site controllers and the Trimble Business Center - HCE project files, with immediate prompt for resolution
  • Earthwork material volume computations and high quality, easily understood reports
  • Intuitive user interface offers built-in feedback and tooltips for new users
 
Trimble Sitevsion Office Software
 
 
The easy-to-use Trimble® SiteVision® Office software is the data management tool for the SiteVision GPS Machine Control system.
 
The software is designed for use by the site data manager who receives the data from the engineer and then assigns it to the data cards, or the site engineer who wants to view the data and see what is being used. Developed for use on all machine types, the intuitive software makes transferring and checking design data simple and efficient.
 
 
 
SiteVision Office is the ideal software to:
  • Manage your data, designs, sub-designs and data card content
  • Log all data transactions
  • Provide a complete record of what design was used where and when
  • Ensure your operators have the correct information to maximize their productivity
Using the SiteVision Office software, earthwork contractors and civil engineers can:
  • Import designs from other CAD packages
  • Translate them into the SiteVision format
  • Run validation checks
  • View any profile through the data and check spot heights for inconsistencies for more confidence in the data
  • Break verified data into smaller subsets of information to copy to a data card for use on machines installed with SiteVision GPS
3D design simulation makes it simple to visually check the data before you leave the office. As you drive a virtual machine over the design, the SiteVision screens are displayed as they would be in the machine on the job site.
 
It's easy to transfer data from CAD and design software packages to the SiteVision Office software. SiteVision Office imports data from most major design packages, including: Terramodel, Paydirt Sitework, AutoCAD, GEOPAK, and Insite. You can also import a wide range of data formats into SiteVision Office. And you can export the SiteVision format directly from a range of leading design packages.