LiDAR Import & Thinning Control
Create surface models from large LiDAR and UAV datasets. Have complete control over your point data thinning functionality. Thinning to polygons, corridors, coordinate regions, or exterior regions.

Survey Data Management
Import and management of a variety of survey and file formats, including: total station, LiDAR, ASCII, DWG, DGN, USGS DEM, LandXMl and image formats (TIFF, BMP, JPG). Total station data can be included with automatic control of linear features, breaklines and symbology.

Import georeferenced background imagery from our Live Maps tool.

Digital Terrain & Surface Modeling
A complete set of functions for creating a 3D surfaces and Digital Terrain Model (DTM), including break lines and boundary areas. Contours can be generated at user specified intervals with full control of color, line types and labels. Contours can be updated at any time.

Site Design and Grading
Site design made easy with intuitive grading functions, feature creation and design of polygonal shapes such as ponds, pads, pits etc.

Volume Calculations & Reporting
Calculate stockpile volumes using average end-area method. Easily calculate volumes between entire surfaces. Set a boundary feature and determine the polygon’s surface properties (surface area, volume, average slope and aspect).

Calculate volumes between surfaces or enclosed within a single surface.

Feature Tools
Format features with annotation, line-type, symbols and hatching control. Manipulate features by moving, sizing, rotating, breaking, joining. Easily manage feature properties: modeled, displayed, draped, breakline, connected, and boundary.

3D Display
3D window shows a perspective display of features and TIN surfaces. Includes drive-through mode for use with linear features.

Output Sheet Creation
Create your own customized output sheet with plan, profile windows, title blocks, legends and more. Export your output sheet for use with Avenza PDF Maps.

Watershed & Hydrology Tools
Easily determine catchment areas of the TIN model and create corresponding features. The automatic calculation of watershed areas is based on a regular grid. The user can choose the grid cell size. An additional drainage area feature allows users to determine the drainage area associated with a specific point, useful in culvert design projects (new Version 10 feature).

Cable Logging Planning
In the forest-industry version, includes complete functionality for cable planning analysis. Analyze payload, clearance, and line tensions. Evaluate different types of equipment and logging configurations. Plot various carriage positions for a given midspan deflection (third point method).

CAD Engine Not Required
Terrain Tools does not require a CAD engine to run. It is a stand-alone program designed for engineering over drafting. It is compatible with AutoCAD and Bentley products and can be saved in standard output formats: LandXML, DXN, DGN, DWG and more.

Key Benefits
Quick learning curve
– Be up and running in hours with little or no training with Terrain Tools’ easy user interface.

Powerful for big datasets
– Comfortably processes LiDAR data sets with millions of points. Setup boundaries and selectively thin points.

Engineering design functions
– More than just mapping. Functions include: site grading, earthwork structure design and calculations.

Easy user-interface
– When it comes to menus, dialogs, modes, buttons and options our philosophy is “the fewer the better”.

Compatible
– Move information seamlessly between other applications with DWG, Shape and LandXML formats.