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‘Bust Gilgais’ breaches and evens out depressions (also known as melon holes or gilgais) in the field while moving as little dirt as possible. It is a blend between breach depressions and fill depressions.‘Layer to drain’ lets you choose the elevations to use....

The ‘Dam creator’ tool provides a simple process of creating a dam on any selected space on the field surface. This tool is able to make two types of dam, ‘Full Cut’ dams and ‘Borrow Pit’ Dams. So what are the differences and benefits for these dam types? ‘Ful...

The drains and banks tool is great for planning drains, ditches, channels, and troughs. Also roads, banks, ridges, levees and embankments. It also lets you plan more complex structures, like roads with drains on each side, custom contours - even whole shed pad...

This tool is used to quickly place drains that will ensure water doesn’t stay on the field for long. Once you’ve placed the drains, you can design them as normal with the Drains and Banks Tool.There are a few options when creating auto drains:‘Line smoothing s...

This tool is used to add contour banks/terraces. To begin creating a new set of contour banks/terraces click on the ‘Add new contour bank / terrace set’ button in the pop-up window. When creating contour banks/terraces a blue line in the working area is used t...

This tool displays all depressions in the selected surface or any depression that meets the minimum requirements that can be set. ‘Only include depressions >= (X)m’ enables the setting to limit the depressions displayed to only those that exceed a set surface ...

‘Show directional depression’ allows you to select a direction and display any depressions that would affect water flow in that specific direction that would otherwise not.‘Direction (degrees)’ this setting will rotate the simulated water flow direction to hel...

‘Show watersheds’ identifies the areas of the surface that will flow together to the same exit point on a field. The working area will display the surface in a patchwork of colors, these indicate your watersheds and what will flow out where, the specific color...

The accumulated flow layer shows paths where the water is most likely to pass through. It is recommended that before using the ‘Show accumulated flow’ tool that the ‘Breach depressions’ tool is used for the most accurate water flow results. ‘Min. drainage area...

‘Show Wetness index’ also referred to as the Hillslope Wetness Index. This tool creates a grayscale layer of the surface that uses high contrast to show the most affected areas. Darker areas on the field represent where the most water flow is, while lighter ar...

Showing aspect will change the surface to a gray-scale to highlight where the sun is hitting the surface. North facing areas will be lighter while south facing areas will be a darker gray.‘Elevation smoothing’ slider that averages out the information on the fi...

‘Show Slope’  shows the severity of the slopes in the field in a color grade. The color grade used is: Red shows low severity of slope and Dark Blue areas show a high severity of slope.‘Elevation smoothing’ averages the information to grade how severe the slop...

‘Show Directional slope’ allows you to visualize the severity of slopes going in a set direction. The severity of the slope is represented by color with Red showing a low severity of slope and dark Blue showing a high severity of the slope in that direction.‘D...

Landscape change is a large-scale smoothing operation for finding generalized high points.‘Radius for gross landscape smooth operation’ this slider changes the radius for how far the system will look around each point to find the average height to be displayed...

When the Boundary tab is selected on the right hand side, the relevant tools will be accessed in two different areas. Firstly, on the menu bar (this changes depending on which layer type is selected) and is explained below in Boundary Design Tools and secondly...

‘Point to Point Creation’ changes the mouse icon to a cross. While in this mode, clicking anywhere in the working area will add a point. These points anchor the line that appears on the screen with the last point and the first point connecting automatically to...

‘Boundary Edit’ displays a series of nodes along existing boundary lines. By left-clicking and dragging these nodes, the boundary lines are able to be moved anywhere. It is also possible to start editing a boundary by right-clicking on the map near it and choo...

‘Slice Boundaries’ is used to split pre-existing boundaries into smaller areas. Once this tool has been selected your mouse cursor will change to a pencil while it is in the working area. To add a line to a boundary click on the outside of the line to create a...

The ‘Multiple Cut Lines’ tool provides a way of creating equally spaced boundary lines across already existing boundaries. When the tool is selected a pop-up window and a selection tool will appear in the working area. In order to place the cut lines use the s...

‘Open Boundaries in Google Earth’ allows you to export your boundary lines to Google earth.When the tool has been selected to export your boundary lines a pop-up window will appear. In this pop-up window the layer that is being exported can be named. Once the ...