Checking material thickness

The typical procedure for checking a material thickness is:

  1. Measure the existing surface before laying the material.

  2. Save the measured surface as a design.

  3. Create a new work order and then load the saved design as the active design.

  4. Lay the new material.

  5. Check the material thickness by measuring points on the laid material, after entering a surface offset value equal to the required thickness.

If the current material thickness is too thin, a blue square appears to show that more “fill” material is required. If the current material thickness is too thick, a red square appears to show that material is required to be “cut” away. If the current material thickness is within a specified tolerance, a green square appears to show that no action is required.

  1. If not in Measure mode, tap the Home button and then tap Measure.

  2. Tap the Home button and then select Settings / Measure.

  3. Ensure that the measurement offset is enabled in this menu (you can change tolerances here too).

  4. Select the measure type icon in the main panel and enter the required thickness as a vertical offset. Tap ACCEPT.

  5. Tap Measure to record a point and the cut/fill value at that location.

As you move around, the values in the info bar at the top of the screen update; the thickness of the material is shown in the Thickness box. The Thickness in the info bar can be activated, if it is not displayed, by pressing the Home Menu / Settings / Info Bar/Panel.

Once a point is recorded, a colored box appears around it showing whether it is within the tolerance range or whether more or less material is required.

If a gray box appears, tap the Zoom window icon and draw a box around the area of the gray box. Gray boxes appear when the map is zoomed out too far to see the colored boxes at the specified resolution.

If no boxes appear, tap from the toolbar on the right. Ensure that the Coverage Grid checkbox and the Cut/Fill: Measured option are selected. You can also change the grid size.

If a small grid size is entered that will result in more than 600,000 grid cells being created over the site’s extents, then no grid cells will appear. In this case, increase the grid size.