Terrain Tools is an advanced 3D mapping and site design software tailored for engineers and surveyors. It facilitates a wide range of tasks including handling survey data, stockpile volume calculations, mine surveying, quantity takeoffs, pad and pond design, geological mapping, surface contouring, and landfill site design.

Features

• LiDAR Import & Thinning Control: Create surface models from large LiDAR and UAV datasets with complete control over point data thinning functionality.
• Survey Data Management: Import and manage various survey and file formats, including total station, LiDAR, ASCII, DWG, DGN, USGS DEM, LandXML, and image formats.
• Digital Terrain & Surface Modelling: Create 3D surfaces and Digital Terrain Models (DTM) with break lines and boundary areas. Generate and update contours at user-specified intervals.
• Site Design and Grading: Intuitive grading functions for designing polygonal shapes such as ponds, pads, pits, etc.
• Volume Calculations & Reporting: Calculate stockpile volumes using the average end-area method and determine surface properties.
• Feature Tools: Format features with annotation, line-type, symbols, and hatching control. Manipulate features by moving, sizing, rotating, breaking, and joining.
• 3D Display: Perspective display of features and TIN surfaces with drive-through mode for linear features.
• Output Sheet Creation: Customize output sheets with plan, profile windows, title blocks, legends, and more.
• Watershed & Hydrology Tools: Determine catchment areas of the TIN model and create corresponding features. Calculate watershed areas based on a regular grid.
• Cable Logging Planning: Analyze payload, clearance, and line tensions for cable planning in the forest industry.
• CAD Engine Not Required: Stand-alone program compatible with AutoCAD and Bentley products, saving in standard output formats.

Benefits

• Quick Learning Curve: Easy user interface allows users to be up and running in hours with little or no training.
• Powerful for Big Datasets: Comfortably processes LiDAR data sets with millions of points.
• Engineering Design Functions: Includes site grading, earthwork structure design, and calculations.
• Easy User-Interface: Simplified menus, dialogs, modes, buttons, and options.
• Compatibility: Seamlessly move information between applications with DWG, Shape, and LandXML formats.