Run two tablets and two programs! If some is good, more is better.
First field now mapped and a preliminary design in place, calculated earthworks around 150 m3/ha
Starting point:
Ponding in starting point:
Design topography, played around with the smoothing and the S1 area is an open ditch running through the field:
Cut/fill:
Limited the cut to 10 cm on the big area and to 15 cm on the small subarea on the left.
Also import to OG3D looks good:
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Thatās what I was thinking of. If it works with one antenna, so much the better. Great project. I know I have some fields I could use it on.
There appears to be a small bug: if you select the wrong COM port for machine control, it never times out but the whole thing seizes. After several re-installs, got it figured out by removing the files from the AppData folder.
The tractor spool valve if quite high flow, so my gain is one (1) at the moment, follows line quite nicely, though. Just some hunting when driving over some rough ground, could maybe put a scaling factor into the ino. Dead easy to use with the spool valve lever, put it to float and itās in auto and then you can use it manually to override and just drop back to float to continue in auto mode.
There appears to be a small bug: if you select the wrong COM
Apparently not the first (or last) time it happens.
The issue was even discussed years ago on combine forum.
Ver 4.3.10 still has the same bug 
It happened again for me a week ago, because I forgot to disconnect all usb ports in AOG before I changed my USB- hub in tractor.
Probably one of the reasons for UDP.
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Some notes from 16 ha of leveling, did the first pass with quite high blade offset as there were some bigger highs and lows from old open ditches that have never been properly levelled. Spent quite some time going in circles to get those 10-20 cm fills done. Second run with close to zero offset.
Spent maybe 12 hours total on the 16 hectares, not perfect but water should be exiting the field now properly without ponding. My idea is to redo the field after the soil has settled for a year, itās very soft sandy soil. Ploughing is way better than chisel plough, cultivator etc. as the residue is buried deep down. Like said, needs to be dry so as not to make a big mess.
The blade I bought last year is working really well, I guess the Italians have built those beforeš Looks like this, letās see how she holds up to the task. The blade curvature is right to make the soil roll and quite low power needed to pull a full blade. If you try to cut too much, the blade lifts the wheels off the ground, there could be some kind of sensing on the wheels being on the ground? The gooseneck really helps as you can fill the blade up to the neck and move large amounts of soil. The tractor is stock T144 so around 170 hp, quite a good match to the 4 m blade. Heavy tractor and duals means no traction problems.
Drilling the field (with autosteer of course!) two days later. After levelling I just ran through once with a VƤderstad NZ tine harrow set to about 6-7 cm depth, but like said the soil is quite light.
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What was your setup for ntrip corrections?
Currently my setup is:
Ardusimple at base sending to rtk2go at 1hz and an ardusimple with Ntrip trough OpenGrade3D, with my phone as access point.
The fields I made so far where about 5km away and over time the vertical height was moving Ā± 4cm in heavy cloudy conditions, much better in stable sunny weather (Ā±1 or 2 cm over the day).
Sometimes with a heavy cloud the blade was moving a couple of cm within seconds, then stable for several minutes.
Thatās my feeling, maybe the atmospheric conditions have nothing to do with the precision.
I will built a setup with a base in the field. Maybe radio link or to rtk2go if I manage to connect it to Internet.
I think I remember reading potatofarmer say going to10hz will improve vertical accuracy ???
You need to adjust the zero on the go in any case, the RTK drifts by a few cm, more so in rain and clouds like @Pat said. Also the type of soil affects how the blade cuts into the soil, I noticed needing to have 1-3 cm more offset in very light soil compared to say heavy clay.
Iām not good at English, so itās a sentence from a translation site.
I downloaded and ran AOG Survey, but there is no response.
The PC is CF-19, the OS is Win10, and the security software is Norton.
The latest version of AOG is installed on your PC.
If you have any problems, please let us know.
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Hi, you can take a look at this software, if it can replace optisurface and ezigrade in opengrade 3d, it does not accept metric measures, thank you. Land Leveling Design using Engineering Field Tools - YouTube
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You can download the software here, thank you, Emanuele EFT 4.0.6 Science and Technology Conservation Tools Software | NRCS (usda.gov)
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Thank you for the introduction
However, is this software free software?
I checked the site, but couldnāt find it or didnāt specify it?
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Thank you very much.
I seem to have overlooked this page
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Have you got any personal experience with this one?
Hi, unfortunately I could not use it because it uses only imperial measures, I tried to convert the.agd files that are in this forum to UTM but with poor results, there are various programs that convert lat. and long, in UTM, but then the elevation stays in meters, I am optimistic because it seems to me done well, I hope that we find a way together.
If you download open grade v3.0 from Github/BrianT, will the āAboutā state it is v.1.3?
What I need to do is make a survey and have my cut line 9 feet down. My antenna is on the excavator boom and Iām installing a pitless adapter and water line.
Version 1.3 was giving me a problem.
Would I be best off downloading open grade 3D v 1.0.5 October 2020. Pat-I/Opengrade
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