Optimisation Toolbar

This bottom band of tools helps you to visualise and monitor the optimisation process.

These tools include the following:

• About. Displays the About dialog for Grading Optimization.
• Preferences. Opens the Preferences dialog in which to specify surface geometry rendering settings.
• Visualisation Toolbar. Opens the toolbar at the top of the Visualisation Display in which you select Themes, Hydrology and Topology options for the optimisation.
• Optimisation Progress Meter. Displays the progress of the optimisation stages. When highlighted and ticked:
  • Prepare. Loads the grading objects, their location and constraint settings.
  • Retriangulate. Surface retriangulation is completed based on the grading object location and configuration.
  • Precheck. The surface and objects are processed for any preliminary errors that could prevent optimisation.
  • Optimise. The surface has been optimised to both the global and object-level constraints.
• Optimisation Options. Opens the Optimisation Options dialog in which you can specify global slope constraints, optimisation iterations and objective weights.
• Optimise. Starts the optimisation process. Click Stop to end the optimisation.
• Reset. Resets the surface to its previous state.
• Notification Centre. Indicates the number of potential issues in the optimisation. Click to open and close the Notification Centre to view the issues and suggested solutions.
• Update Drawing. Updates the source drawing with the optimised surface gradients, feature lines and points.