This a rewrite to a common codebase with Earthwork but it is a standalone program. There is no dependence on Sitework/Gradework and Underground is not integrated either. The basic concept is:

• A shared file format. The MK3 goes away
• Users should not have to ever re-enter data (high on the annoyance factor
• Whenever possible the interface and way of doing things is identical
• The toggle between programs feature of Trackwork/Gradework is integrated although perhaps smaller for space
• The data flow is omnidirectional. It can flow from Materials to Sitework and vice-versa.

• Structures List - Multiple Lists, Master Lists on Access,
• Materials List
• Phases - Phase Regions
• Work Layers
• Entry - Lengths, Areas, Counts, Documentation Elements
• Printing - Single sheet Reporting, Layout
• Import
• Export
• Reporting - Sorting, Filtering

• Use/Applying Materials Areas as Sectional Areas (designating whether an areas should be used as a sectional areas)
• Adding Structures List to Region Entry in Sitework (Revamping of Sectional Entry for interaction with Structures List. Augmenting Line Editor for Sectional entry.)

Floating palettes during entry. May require right-click ala Sitework to go into an intermediate mode for selection of different structure

Work Layers - A user nameable organization method. For example we might create a demolition work layer with several phases.

Materials Calculator? Typing in calculations for structure entry (ie 1.4'/12) etc. or a dedicated calculator for common conversions.

User created PNG symbols - Also exported to Google Earth and supporting transparency. SVG too?

Filtering on reports reflected on graphics -

• Essentially two way filtering
• Wildcard supported

Support for PNG/SVG User patterns

Do we support Cost Codes on Structures or Materials?

Adding columns of user defined data

• Cost Codes
• Accounting codes
• Essentially freeform strings - User names the column and enters the string. Should it be part of structure and and a Material? Allows for searching

Shared Structures, Materials, Cost Code lists to and from AGTEK Access. The cost code list is already supported by Access.

Cost Codes as part of output (for HCSS, Hard Dollar, for Subs)

• Import
• PlanView
• ReportView
• Report/Plan Split View
• Print Page
• Edit
• Entry

• Home
• Pan
• Area Zoom
• Send to Print Page
• Area, Length, Measure View Filters

• Materials
• Select All
• Offset
• Join
• Swap Ends
• Close Line
• Trim Annotation

Modes moved up Ala' Sitework 4D

Joe Customer needs to bid a job and gets the PDF plan set. It's got demo, dirt, & paving on it. First step is he starts Materials and Imports the PDF sheets he cares about. As Allen explained it's often about getting info out to subs for their bid.

• Structure Measure - Detail and Summary
  • Structure name, color, pattern, type (area length, count), phase, class, seq (kill), count, area length
• Structures - Detail and Summary
  • Structure name, color, pattern, material, type, phase, class, seq (kill), measure, section, multiplier, quantity, units
• Materials Report - Detail and Summary
  • Material, type, structure name, color, pattern, phase, class, seq (kill), measure, section, multiplier, quantity, units

I haven't found anybody who uses sequence and I believe it's a vestige of the old Edge Materials that didn't have onscreen reporting for identifying item. I suggest we kill it.

Dave has a floating Report window that's a natural to float on a second screen although it can be docked like the existing one.

When a customer has both Sitework/Gradework and Materials one of the benefits of a shared file format is the ability to designate Sectional areas with a Structure from the structure list. Likewise, Materials Structures should be able to be designated for use as a sectional area in Site files.

This is the current Report Region Dialog modified to add the Structure information.

NOTE: The program currently brings up the Line Editor for Sectional Areas and Report Regions. It should really bring up this window instead

Notice that the Sectional Depth is greyed because the Structure is set from the Structure list. The buttons to the right of the Structure combobox are to display the structure list and add a new structure. In the case of adding a new structure we'll display the Structures windows.

And when a Structure is picked the Sectional depth is applied from that structure value and the Materials breakdown displays below it.

There's many times when the materials takeoff is done before the earthwork. In those cases we'd like to be able to apply the Area Structures as Sectional Regions in the Earthwork takeoff but that likely has to take place after the Design data is entered. In fact the user doing the sitework takeoff will likely want to snap to some of the Materials entries.

My proposal is that we add a Materials Layer. Not only does that allow segregated information that users can snap to but it also provides the beginning of a mechanism to tell the program to use an area also as a sectional area/report region. In this view we should also support the saved colors and patterns of the structures rather than the randomized ones currently done by Sitework.