If you didnt want a constant grade on the slope but didnt like the grade that you have how would you go about that Im thinking how we could use this to build farm airstrips which sometimes transition from hillside to flat to flat to hillside keen to get your thoughts
Thanks for the comment and the question. Great application you’ve got there with the airstrip. The constant grade button doesn’t have to be used and the individual grades between each point can be edited, either by editing the elevation of the point or the grade of the slope between them. So per your description of the airstrip it sounds like you might like 4 grades (hillside, flat, flat, hillside) so to do that I’d record 5 points for the alignment (start, end of hill side, end of flat, end of flat, end of hillside) and then edit the grades of the four “segments” between the points to suit. If the change between each grade is too sharp for the plane to run over then could smooth out with the machine by eye : manual operation or insert extra points either side of the grade change. Hope this helps, I could make another video walking through that scenario
@@machinecontroltips Yes would be good to see how you edit exiting points up and down and yes your right the transition betweeen grades needs to be managed and extra points would possibly need to be added to create an arc between the chnages of grade Where in NZ are you. Assuming im correct
If you didnt want a constant grade on the slope but didnt like the grade that you have how would you go about that
Im thinking how we could use this to build farm airstrips which sometimes transition from hillside to flat to flat to hillside
keen to get your thoughts
Thanks for the comment and the question.
Great application you’ve got there with the airstrip. The constant grade button doesn’t have to be used and the individual grades between each point can be edited, either by editing the elevation of the point or the grade of the slope between them.
So per your description of the airstrip it sounds like you might like 4 grades (hillside, flat, flat, hillside) so to do that I’d record 5 points for the alignment (start, end of hill side, end of flat, end of flat, end of hillside) and then edit the grades of the four “segments” between the points to suit.
If the change between each grade is too sharp for the plane to run over then could smooth out with the machine by eye : manual operation or insert extra points either side of the grade change.
Hope this helps, I could make another video walking through that scenario
@@machinecontroltips Yes would be good to see how you edit exiting points up and down and yes your right the transition betweeen grades needs to be managed and extra points would possibly need to be added to create an arc between the chnages of grade
Where in NZ are you. Assuming im correct
@@MrCameronBishop good deal, I'll plan on doing another video for that.
Yep, you got NZ right, I'm based out of Christchurch