Intuitive to start… with structured training to ensure lasting success.
Our software is built to be picked up quickly — and the people who get the most from it are the ones who start with a proper grounding. That starts with the Beginners session, which is also the prerequisite for Intermediate — Model Maker, Road Maker, Pipe Maker and Point Cloud Viewer. Here is what is on offer, when, and what it costs.
Years of analysis has proven that users are able to pick up our software and work effortlessly without the need of our training programs, especially when combined with documentation and our excellent support services. Our experts are just a quick call away!
Master your tools to become the best. There’s nothing more empowering and effective than being a master of your tools. With our training programs you can learn the skills and command the features at hand to be the best and most effective you can be.
Scheduled group courses
All held at our venue in Centurion (Pretoria), in a group with other users. Prices are per person and include VAT.
Beginners — Model Maker
Basic concepts, screen menu layout, survey data input, triangulation, plotting a contour plan and CAD basics.
What the course covers →
- Main desktop
- Introduction, main menu & help file, sub-menus, CAD menu, display and toolbars
- Settings
- Defaults, plotter & pens, colours, parameters
- Data input
- ASCII, electronic, manual, file open, open all
- Manipulation
- Constants, codes, audit, rotate
- Triangulations
- Theory, create, edit, errors, display, break lines
- DTM points
- Add, info, elevations, identify, codes, create a DTM from CAD
- Plot & export
- Plotter, DXF, paper window, plot scales, export DXF, DWG, Caddie, ASCII
- CAD
- CAD elements, layers, ID, global, images
Intermediate — Model Maker
Builds on the Beginners course and goes deeper into modelling, earthworks, strings and drafting.
What the course covers →
- Introduction
- Main desktop, quick overview, security, setup and licence agreement, help files, new functions, defaults, plotter & pens, colours, parameters
- Data input
- Importing ASCII files, electronic data, open & save files
- Point manipulation
- Constants, codes, audit, rotate, report, global manipulation
- Triangulation
- Exclude points while creating triangles, advanced triangle display, triangle edit overview, tips & tricks
- Survey calculations
- Joins, polars, areas, datum conversions
- Toelines
- Working with toelines
- Bulk earthworks
- Cut & fill volumes
- Working with projects
- Copy, combine, compare
- Surface analysis & 3D
- Height, slope and valley, slope & polygon area, 3D function, grid, quick & virtual
- CAD functions
- Line styles, CAD functions on a sample drawing, creating patterns, working with images, creating a custom title block
- Plotting & exports
- Paper window, scale, viewports & key plan, export and import other CAD packages
- Strings
- String basics, strings & toelines, autostring, strings as section lines
- Horizontal alignments
- Working with alignment, long & cross sections
Road Maker
Horizontal and vertical alignment, cross sections, volumes and road networks.
What the course covers →
- Preparation in Model Maker
- Horizontal alignment, extract cross and long sections, skew sections, service crossings with strings, vehicle turning circles
- Introduction
- Main desktop layout and the Road Maker file formats
- Long sectional profile design
- Load ground and horizontal data, working with vertical PIs
- Cross sectional profile design
- Reserve, road, kerb, shoulder, centreline offset, gradeline offset, drain and toe definition, base toe, foundation layers, roadbed, kerbing, super elevation
- Plot
- X-sections, L-sections, plan plotting, exporting CAD and printing
- Verge & topsoil
- Verge definition, topsoil definition and inner offsets
- Road widening
- Widening the road and shoulders, layers and road widening
- Road volumes
- Mass haul, cut and fill, topsoil, layer works, clear & grub
- Reporting
- Setting-out data, geometry analysis, guard rails
- Road networks
- Draw a string network in Model Maker, load a .tot file, work with network roads
Survey Maker
Survey calculations, datasets and reporting, then cadastral work — erf datasets, diagrams, working plans and General Plans.
What the course covers →
- Screen layout
- Getting around the program
- General settings
- Setting the program up for your work
- Starting a project
- Creating and organising a project
- The function interface
- Working with the function interface
- Loading & importing data
- Getting survey data into the program
- Datasets
- Understanding how datasets work
- Survey functions
- The core survey calculations
- Reporting
- Producing reports from your data
- Cadastral erf datasets
- Creating a cadastral erf dataset
- Cadastral calculations
- Cadastral calculations and functions
- Templates
- Creating diagram, working-plan and General Plan templates
- Compiling plans
- Compiling diagrams, working plans and General Plans
- CAD annotations
- Adding and manipulating CAD annotations
Pipe Maker
Design pipelines with confidence, from basics. From basic setup through to advanced pipe design — file creation, pipeline alignment, long-section design of single and network pipelines, trench volume calculations, and printing and export of design long-section files. Everything covered applies to sewer, stormwater and water designs.
What the course covers →
- Getting started
- Introduction to Pipe Maker, module descriptions, things to consider before starting
- Pipe network design
- Preparing data in Model Maker, running the sewer layout wizard, saving design files, loading string design files into Pipe Maker, designing a selected pipeline, saving the network design
- Single line design
- Creating a horizontal alignment, extracting and saving a long-section file, loading both into Pipe Maker, designing the single line
- Pressure system water design
- Simulating a gravity-feed design, sewer definitions explained, an as-built worked example, energy and hydraulic grade lines
Point Cloud Viewer
Working with point cloud data and getting it into Model Maker for normal modelling. Importing the common point cloud formats, colour-based height analysis, filtering duplicate points and shading to bring out the 3D view, then Virtual Survey and Triangle Edit used together with Model Maker.
One-to-one and small groups
Arranged at any time to suit you.
plus travel and accommodation R 7 500
Per day. Each trainee must have their own computer to use.
Training elsewhere
Our agents also run training in their own regions:
- Durban — CadQuant Agencies CC
- Cape Town — MMS Design
- Harare, Zimbabwe — Top Survey PVT LTD
- Orlando, USA — Hunter Agricultural
Contact the agent directly, or ask us and we will put you in touch.
How to book
- Ask for a quotation for the course you want, and give us your security key and/or company account number.
- We send the quotation. Accept it with a payment or an official purchase order.
- We invoice it — and your place on the course is confirmed.
Please note
- We may cancel a scheduled course if fewer than 4 people are registered.
- Bookings must be confirmed with an official order or full payment 2 weeks before the course date.
- All prices quoted are VAT inclusive.
Ready to book?
Tell us which course you want and we will send you a quotation.
Or e-mail training@modelmaker.co.za
