User Interface Basics

The Undo and Redo commands are complimentary and can be quite helpful when working on an engineering project. The important thing to keep in mind is the order in which you performed previous commands.…

Our civil engineering software’s user interface has several features that will be examined in detail in the following sections. The user interface is one of the most important elements of any software…

Many times you may find yourself having to execute the same processing command repeatedly. For example, using the raindrop flow path command repeatedly can become quite tedious. Deleting multiple rows…

Selecting multiple elements can get frustrating, especially if the project has a lot of complex data loaded. To simplify this, CivilGEO software provides additional selection modes to assist the user.…

If you have multiple projects opened, you can quickly save all of your projects by selecting the File ribbon menu and then clicking on the Save All icon. Alternatively, you can click on the Save All i…

The toolbar provides Map View commands, including: 2D/3D – Switches the Map View from 2D to 3D view mode. Select - Select elements, as well as other related commands like Edit Vertices, Select Window,…

The software allows you to work with multiple projects at the same time. The tabbed window interface allows you to quickly change between projects. Just click on the project tab that you want to work…

Scale bars provide a visual indication of distance and feature size on the map. A scale bar is a line or bar divided into parts. It is labeled with its ground length, usually in multiples of map units…

While working on an engineering project, you frequently zoom, pan, and rotate the Map View. Therefore, it is important to be as efficient as possible. This article describes the various ways to zoom,…

CivilGEO software fully supports both Metric (SI) and US units. Default Project Units The CivilGEO software auto detects the country that the computer is located in. If the computer is located within…