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When designing drains, there are several aspects that you will find that are across all the different Drain Design tools. The most important feature of the drain design tools that you will find will be the cross section found at the bottom of the screen. Th...
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How to create and edit levee lines.
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Boundaries, Regions and Guides
BoundariesThe toolbars specifically for Boundaries are:BoundariesT3RRA Design Plus boundaries are used to limit the extent of a design. They are different to regions in that they typically outline the entire project area. After a surface is imported into T3RRA...
Menus overview and Shortcuts
The menus, which are located on the top left hand side for the T3RRA Design Plus screen, include many options which you would expect to find in a File or Edit menu. It also includes some T3RRA exclusive options. These are all listed below. In addition, there a...
File Menu
Under the File tab you will find the following options:New Project - Create a new blank project.Save Project - Save your project. If it is the first time saving, you will be prompted to select a location and file name.Save Project As - Either rename an existin...
Edit Menu
Under the Edit menu you will find the following options:Undo (Ctrl + Z) - undoes the last change made.Redo (Ctrl + Y) - redoes the last undo.Edit units - this allows you to change various units of measurement.NOTE: You should restart T3RRA Design Plus after ma...
Surface Selections Menu
‘Surface Selections’ provides tools that can be used to select specific areas of the active surface:‘Select all’ - selects the entire field in the current layer.‘Select all (including background)’ - creates a selection box from the widest points of the current...
Layers Menu
Under the Layers menu you will find the following options:SurfacesBoundariesRegionsGuidesThese options are also available at the top of the ‘Layer Selection Panel’ on the right of the display.
Tools Menu
Under the Tools menu you will find 2 options:‘3D Viewer’ (see 3D Viewer) - to look at a surface in 3D.‘Simulate surface water flow’ (see Stimulated Surface Flow) - which simulates a rainfall event on the surface (this rainfall event is simulated as though the ...
Help Menu
Under the Help menu you will find multiple options:‘News and Social’ - Links provided to find us online‘Change Log’ - Opens a .TXT file with a record of software changes for each version‘Relink file associations’ - Sets windows defaults to open T3RRA Design Pl...
Navigation Tools
The magnifying glass allows you to zoom in or out on a selected point of a surface. Left clicking will zoom in, right clicking will zoom out. Clicking and dragging the left mouse button will zoom in on an area of interest.The grab tool allows you to move the s...
Selection Tools
There are several selection tool options available. To access more selection tools, left click on the arrow next to the currently selected tool in the toolbar at the top of the screen.'Box Selection' allows you to select everything within a rectangular space. ...
Surface profile tool
The Surface profile tool presents a cross-section of the field along the line or path you specify. It samples and plots the elevation of one or two surfaces at evenly spaced points along the line. The distance between samples is specified in meters. It can al...
Visualization Tools
The ‘Visualization tools’ are used to view surfaces in different ways. The options available are 3D Viewer, Simulated waterflow, and Wetting front. 3D ViewerWhen using the ‘3D viewer’, a window will appear that displays the field as a 3D model (shown below), t...
Importing and Creating Surfaces
There are many different file types which can be used to import or create surfaces in T3RRA Design Plus. This will generally need to be done to start a new project. The file type that you will be working with will depend on how you acquired your data. That is,...
File types
Here is the list of available file types for import (instructions of how to use some files types are linked below):CSV (.csv) - the most generic import. Can bring in survey points, boundaries, guidance lines and markers. Expects the columns to be in the format...
Importing Elevations if you are a John Deere Operator
T3RRA Design Plus can import elevation data from three separate John Deere sources. These are:John Deere RCD logsThese are from Gen3 and earlier John Deere displays (such as the 2630). You would normally download the data from your display using a thumb drive ...
Importing a Surface from an Existing Elevation Surface
By working in the Surface Tab in the Layers Panel, select: Layer > Import > From existing elevation surface:PCT Image elevations (*.pcti)USGS DEM elevations (*.dem)Space Shuttle Radar TopographySRTM1 elevations (*.hgt)SRTM3 elevations (*hgt)SRTM30 elevations (...
Importing a Surface from Raw Data Points
By working in the Surface Tab in the Layers Panel, select: Layer > Import > From raw data points (Deere RCD, CSV, etc.):T3RRA Software Survey Points (*.tci)John Deere Gen4 (ADAPT) logsJohn Deere RCD logsJohn Deere RCD SWM survey logsRaw CSV Data Points (*.csv)...
Importing Annotations to T3RRA Design Plus
Depending on your available data, there are many annotations which can be imported into your project. These could further help with the accuracy and detail of the design. Importing Multiplane BoundariesA simple way to import Multiplane Boundaries: Select ‘Guid...
Exporting Files from T3RRA Design Plus
There is a lot of flexibility when exporting from T3RRA Design Plus. This includes control files and overlays. Export individual layers or several into a folder. To get started, load a project and click the export button. Alternatively, choose File > Export Da...
Exporting Files - Control File
It is also possible to export a Control File from T3RRA Design Plus. This is how you get your design into a tractor or bulldozer with T3RRA Cutta (.tci), or produce a Trimble FMX/TMX compatible file (.gps). You can either create a control file with an individu...