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Blade Shift

The blade shift buttons allow you to manually shift the height of the blade; up, down, or rotate it (for cross-slope control). You can also limit the depth of cut and fill with blade limits.

To use it, click the "Blade shift" button.

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Breakdown of the Blade Shift UI

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Blade limit: Allows you to set limits on the blade relative to the As Applied surface.

Show/Hide control profile: Shows or hides the "control profile" display (see right).

Control profile: An overlaid display that shows you all the stats about what is happening with the control loop. For example, the position of your blade relative to the design surface.

  • Design is the what the goal is to hit - the design surface. This is labelled with its absolute elevation.
  • Target is what the ECU is currently targeting. In this case it's been blade shifted by -3cm so it's showing below design. It will also display the effect of a blade limit when applicable. If there was no shifts or limits present then it would match Design. This is what all of the other UI displays as the goal - not necessarily the design (On-grade indicator, side view and behind view)
  • Current is the current height of the blade/implement, relative to the design surface.
  • Original is the elevation before any earth was moved, relative to the design surface.

Up/Down: Will adjust your targeted blade height by the blade shift increment. 

Blade shift: This text-box shows the current shift. Tapping on it will allow entry of a specific shift value.

To slope: This will let you change from nudging up/down to editing cross slope.image.png Only present if you have a cross slope capable setup.  

To Slope view

Auto: Allows one to turn on/off the automatic control of cross-slope. If in "auto" (see screenshot) the cross-slope will be controlled by the design surface's slope.

Up/Down: Will adjust your targeted blade height by the X Slope shift increment. Will be disabled if in Auto.

Slope: This text-box shows the current target x slope. Tapping on it will allow exact entry of a desired slope. Will be disabled if in Auto.

To Shift: This switches back from editing cross-slope to editing blade shift.

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