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Welcome to the OptiSurface Newsletter for August 2022.
It’s been a while since our last newsletter. We have been very busy assisting our clients around the world and developing new products that we hope to release soon.
See below for our latest News, Design, Feature and Deal of the Month.
If you have any problems or questions please reply to this email or call us on +61 405-686-425 (Australia) or +1 870-340-2020 (USA).
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Regards
Graeme Cox & The OptiSurface Team
DAVCO OptiSurface
Web: www.optisurface.com
News: www.twitter.com/OptiSurface
“Celebrating One Million Acres of Optimized Agricultural Earthworks“
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P.S. If you haven’t taken advantage of OptiSurface yet, we offer a special service where we will take your topographic data for a field and conduct some FREE analysis and design. Go here to find out more: http://www.optisurface.com/nlt/
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OptiSurface@OptiSurface·Feb 1
VIDEO: Optimum Surface Landforming History & Overview [50 min] Celebrating 10 years since we started promoting OptiSurface in the USA and still a good overview of the ground breaking concept.
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OptiSurface@OptiSurface·Feb 7
This new 3D Water Flow Simulation tool is fricking amazing!!… if I do say so myself. If you want to free demo on your data or early access email us at support@optisurface.com
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OptiSurface@OptiSurface·Mar 14
Great to see another 5000 acres of OptiSurfaced fields feeding the world. Actually, this is greening the world as this sugarcane goes to ethanol. Reposted from LinkedIn.
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Share photos of your designs or field work on social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn and tag us with @OptiSurface. Each month we will select the best post and send you a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Congratulations to Nicholas Botha, our winner for this month!
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The Hubbard’s purchased a new farm and it was furrow irrigated with siphons and a head ditch. The map below shows the Existing Topography which was irrigated from the bottom edge of the image to the top edge. They wanted to convert it to a bankless channel irrigation system, irrigating from the right edge to the left edge.
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The drainage map shows where the water would pond if they didn’t do any earthworks and switched the furrow direction around.
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OptiSurface Designer was used to design the new layout. The block was divided into four bays 130m wide allowing steps between the bays as shown in the figure below.
The dead level sill areas for each bay is shown on the right side. The bankless channel is cut into these sills using a simple offset done by the operator on the machine control system. The sill areas then automatically transitions back into the field topography based on defined slopes and allowable rate of change (smoothing).
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Subzones are used to define a minimum slope in each section as you move down the bay as shown in the figure below. The smoothing factor allow for a smoother transition between slopes.
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The figure below shows a long section down one bay. The sill is shown in the right side then transitions smoothly to the field with defined slope ranges. Each of the four sill area is about 50m of 0% main slope and cross slope.
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The cross section below showing the sill areas steps down 200mm at a time for each bay.
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The resulting earthworks is about 115 m³/ha (61 yd³/ac) which is very reasonable to convert this field to bankless channel which is more labor and water efficient.
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Overview: Right clicking a design zone gives quicker access to more options mostly to edit but also other special features as well.
Displayed by: Right click boundary or subzone
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Calculate Landform: Calculates the landform design of the clicked boundary based on the landform design parameters defined for each zone.
Recalculate Cut/Fill: Brings up the Recalculate Cut/Fill Surface dialog to update the Cut/Fill Map.
Calculate Area: Calculates the area of the boundary or subzone and shown in the Results Window to the lower left of the screen.
Calculate Volumes: Calculates the cut and fill volumes of the boundary or subzone and shown in the Results Window to the lower left of the screen.
Modify Extents: Modify the extents of a zone by editing the polygon vertices. After pressing this button, left click on the existing zone polygon vertices then hold and drag to reposition. Right click on the points to get other options, like insert a point.
Define Extents: Re-defines the extents of a zone by drawing a polygon. After pressing this button, left click on the existing surface where the boundary points are desired and double left click to finish and close the polygon.
Split Boundary: Split the boundary according to a defined section line. After pressing this button, left click on a point in the boundary then left click again on another point in the boundary to create the section line where the boundary breaks.
Move: Move the location of the boundary or subzone to a new location.
Duplicate: Duplicates the boundary or subzone and creates an identical one to a selected location. All parameters are copied as well.
Delete: Delete a boundary or a subzone from a project.
Properties: Brings up the Landform Design dialog to show all parameters of the design zone.
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Deal Of The Month
Get up to 25% off OptiWorks, the leading farm earthworks system. Learn more about this product by visiting here. Contact your dealer to find out more or email support@optisurface.com.
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Refer A Friend
Give a friend a $100 OptiSurface Credit and get rewarded with $100 Amazon Gift Card yourself! Start Here.
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We have clients looking for experienced earthmoving operators in Africa, France, Australia and USA. If you’re interested, contact support@optisurface.com
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