This tutorial is intended to guide you through some of the features of EZYSurf and explain how they are

used. The tutorial should be used in conjunction with the EZYSurf Reference Manual located in the Manual.dwg file. Start up AutoCAD and open the drg Tutor-1.dwg. 1. LOADING POINT DATA INTO AUTOCAD. Select XYZ-in (points) from the pull down menu. The load data file panel will appear. Press the Select File button. Browse the computer and find the File TUTOR1.XYZ which is in the tutorial directory of the EZYSurf.Zip file. When you have selected it it's name will appear below the button. Select the preview file. This displays the file. There are 5 columns in this file. The first is the point number, the second is the Easting, the third is the Northing, the fourth is the elevation and the fifth is the description or code column. Enter the following numbers in the Column format for file boxes. 1 in the Pt No., 2 in the Easting, 3 in the Northing, 4 in the Elevation, 5 in the Descriptions. Check the boxes for displaying the Pt. No., Elevation, Description and Connect Concurrent Codes. Change the text height to 1.0 Change the No. of decimals to 2. Press the Load Data File button. The points will now load. The 3D drawing data is now ready to create a TIN. 2. CREATING A TIN. Select Create TIN from the EzySurf pull down menu. Enter GROUND in the TIN Identifier box. Change the colour to grey (8). -->> Press OK. Select a window around all the data (points and polylines). Answer Yes to use selected polylines as breaklines. A TIN will be generated and will appear as 3Dfaces in the drawing. Once the TIN has been generated all the TIN tools can be used. (You may wish to try some of them at this stage). 3. CREATING CONTOURS. Select Create Contours from the EzySurf pull down menu. Select the EZYTIN-GROUND from the pop up list. -->> Press OK. The Create Contours panel will appear Enter 1.0 in the contour interval panel. -->> Press OK. The contours will now be generated and will appear as white lines in the drawing. These a raw contours and will be updated when any of the TIN tools are used.

4. ENHANCING CONTOURS. Enhancing contours allows for the labelling, smoothing and defining of major and minor contours. Select Enhance Contours from the EzySurf pull down menu. Select EZYCNT-GROUND from the pop-up list, -->> Press OK. The Enhance Contours panel will appear. Check the the Smooth Contours button, Enter 5.0 in the major contour interval box, Change the Major Contour Colour button dark blue, Change the Minor Contour Colour to magenta, Check the Label Major Contours box, Change the Label Text Height to 1.0, Enter 25 in the Label Text Distance box, Enter 1 in the Decimals box, Change the Text Colour to white, -->> Press the OK. The contours will now be labelled and highlighted. NOTE: the labelling is automatic and may not be suitable for some jobs as labels may lie over and obscure other features, text etc. The contours can be enhanced without auto labelling and then use the Label Contours command to label the contours where desirable. 5. PUTTING ON A PLAN GRID A plan grid is a grid (lines or ticks) of northings and eastings laid over the contour plan. Select the Plan Grid command from within utilities Pick the lower left corner (-15,35) and the upper right corner (75,90). The Plan Grid panel will appear. Check the Tick Marks box, Enter a grid spacing of 10, Enter a tic mark size of 1, Enter mN for the northing suffix, Enter mE for the easting suffix, -->>Press OK. Enter Y to change text values Enter 1.0 for the text height, Enter 0 for the No. Of decimal places Change the colour to yellow. -->>Press OK. The Grid will now be generated. 6. CREATING SECTIONS Thaw the layer cross-section. Select the Cross Section from TIN/TRN command from the pull down menu. Select EZYTIN-GROUND from the popup list. -->> Press OK. Select the location Select the location Enter the value 0.0 Select the location marked A as the start point of the section, marked B as the end point of the section, for the value of the first point chainage, marked C to plot the section profile.

The Sections panel will appear. Check the Rural Section button, Enter a vertical scale of 2, Enter 2 in the horizontal grid line increment box, Enter 10 in the vertical increment box, Select any Grid Colour, Select any Profile colour, Enter 0 in the min. elevation box, Enter 15 in the elevation max. box, Enter 0 in the chainage min. box, Enter 60 in the chainage max. box, Enter 1.0 for the text height, Enter 0 for the decimal places, Select any colour for the text, -->>Press OK. The Rural Section will now be drawn. 7. CREATING A BUILDING PAD Thaw the layer building-pad The yellow line shown represents the building pad at a level of 15.0. We can now determine the intersection line of our fill/cut slopes with the tin. Select the Cut_Fill Batters Command from the pull down menu. Select EZYTIN-GROUND from the popup list. -->> Press OK. Select the yellow line as the design polyline, The Cut/Fill panel will appear. Enter a polar increment of 15, Enter 2 for the chainage increment, Enter 20 for the search distance, Enter 2 for the cut/fill slope, -->>Press OK. The intersection line will be computed. 8. VOLUMES To create volumes of the building pad we need to create a building pad design TIN. Create a design tin as in exercise 2. Selecting only the design polyline and the intersection polyline created in exercise 7. Enter DESIGN as the Tin Identifier. Select the Volumes command. Select the vols by TIN-TIN button, Select point marked A as the lower left extent, Select point marked B as the upper right extent, Select the vols by TIN-TIN button, Enter a grid size of 2.0, Select EZYTIN-GROUND from the pop up list for 1st Surface, Select EZYTIN-DESIGN from the pop up list for 2nd Surface, -->>Press OK. A Volumes Report will appear listing cut and fill values. 9. CONTOUR HEIGHT DIFFERENCE After the volumes have been computed a contour plan of the height differences can be done. Start a new drawing. When the Volumes are computed a file (EZYSURF.XYZ) is generated of the height differences.

The first line of this file is XYZ. Using a text editor delete this line. This file can be loaded into the drawing and a TIN and contours created as outlined in exercise 1, 2, and 3. These contours will represent the height difference between the two TINS.