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OptiSurface Newsletter – 2018 April

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Welcome to the April 2018 OptiSurface Newsletter.

The News Of The Month shows OptiSurface as featured in Precision Farming Dealer.

The Design Of The Month demonstrates a simple OptiSurface 4Way design using different types of subzones.

The Feature Of The Month shows how to use Extend Surface.

If you have any problems or questions please reply to this email or call me on +61 405-686-425 (Australia) or Preston on +1 870-340-2020 (USA).

Regards
Graeme Cox & The OptiSurface Team
DAVCO OptiSurface
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News Of The Month

From our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

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OptiSurface‏ @OptiSurface Jan 18

Queensland Grain Field Drainage – 230% Return On Investment http://www.optisurface.com/qld-grain-farm/

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Billy Beaudry‏ @Beaudrybilly Feb 6

@OptiSurface New curved breakline feature is doing a great job!

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OptiSurface‏ @OptiSurface Feb 28

Analyze erosion risk and control measures with OptiSurface Designer’s Powerful Runoff Analysis Tool

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OptiSurface‏ @OptiSurface Mar 13

150 acre farm optisurface design, cut the yardage down by over half of a conventional flat plane design! from http://www.rainbowlandleveling.com

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OptiSurface‏ @OptiSurface Mar 22

“That field is finally coming in with some winter wheat and it looks terrific! We’re so pleased with the way it came out.” – Mark Dunn

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Design Of The Month

Field Design in Hungary Using Different Types of Subzones
A client in Hungary is having ponding issues with his field. His neighbor to the west is a bit difficult and is not ready to solve the water issues together so design is to drain elsewhere.

Existing Topography
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Existing Drainage Analysis
The Ponding Map calculated about 10% of the field is ponded and mostly in the west area.
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Proposed Topography
An OptiSurface 4Way design was generated for the field.  Ridges were added to the west and south edges preventing water from exiting there. A valley subzone was used to direct water to exit to the north instead.

The brown subzone had the smoothing reduced as there were unnecessary cuts due to higher smoothing.

Finally, the field was extended by about 15m to the east where there was a small area with trees which they wish to cut down and include in the design. We used breaklines drawn at the east edge then the breakline was moved to the desired location to extend the surface in the Existing Topography.

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Proposed Cut/Fill Map
Earthworks ended up at 205 m3/ha or 1760 m3 for the 8.6 hectare field.
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Feature Of The Month

Extend Surface

Overview:  The Extend Surface feature is used to create a new surface to extend the edges of the field.  This can be used when a surface beyond the edge of the survey is needed for the design.

Displayed by:

Menu: Tools > Existing Topography or Proposed Topography > Extend Surface…
or
Right click Existing Topography or Proposed Topography under Project Explorer > Extend Surface…

Appearance:

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Example:

The design of the month shown above shows a design which needed to be extended to cover the tree area in the east.

The initial method was using breaklines to create and extend the surface but there’s an easier way to do this.

Right click Existing Topography under Project Properties > Extend Surface

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The image below show the surface extended with the same elevation at the edge by 20m.
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All that is needed now is to adjust the east boundary to cover the extended surface so it is included in the calculations.

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