Courses are concise and contain many tutorials that are laid out in a suggested order. However students can start with any course or tutorial to meet job demands. Courses are grouped into libraries that provide a systematic approach to learning that helps ensure users can apply the data they learn on real-world projects. Below are descriptions of each GEOPAK course available.

GEOPAK Beginning Road Training Library
GEOPAK Intermediate Road Training Library
GEOPAK Advanced Road Training Library
GEOPAK Site Training Library
GEOPAK Survey Training Library
GEOPAK Drainage Training Library

GEOPAK Beginning Road Training Library

Introduction to Digital Terrain Modeling
This course is a basic introduction to Digital Terrain Modeling (DTM) concepts. DTM key words and procedures are discussed at length, with video examples to make it easier to understand how to build digital terrain models. The contents are designed for users who are new to GEOPAK and the DTM process.

Advanced Digital Terrain Modeling
Advanced Digital Terrain Modeling expands on concepts found in the introduction class. This course discusses additional extraction procedures, working with TIN files and advanced tools, including Profiles, Volume Calculations and Slope Areas. Learn the proper use of Theme functions, computing earthwork and working with Drainage tools.

Existing Ground Cross Section
This course introduces how to generate cross sections using existing grounds. See how to generate, display and modify cross sections with great illustrations and informative videos. Learn how to choose the proper baseline, update existing sections and use Cross Section Navigator.

Project Manager for Road
Project Manager for Road discusses how to set up a project, define preferences, working alignments and various procedures included in the Project Manager.

Introduction to Coordinate Geometry
Introduction to Coordinate Geometry covers the creation of the GEOPAK coordinate geometry (COGO) database (*.GPK file, made up of stored geometric elements such as points, lines, curves, etc.) and includes details on using the COGO Navigator (used to view, edit and display coordinate geometry elements).

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GEOPAK Intermediate Road Training Library

Horizontal and Vertical Geometry Layout Tools
This course discusses several sets of tools to compute alignments and profiles for different types of roads, from basic to complex. Some included tools are horizontal layout tools, VPI based profile generator and components.

Plans Preparation Tools for Road Projects
Includes tools needed for creating the construction plans. Includes drawing plans with Design and Computation (D&C) Manager to do quantities afterwards. Also featured are draw transitions, plan and profile labeling, generation plan and plan/profile sheets.

Basic Proposed Cross Sections
Works through the generation of proposed cross sections, both inside and outside of Project Manager. This includes how to utilize all the previously created information from the design process; geometry, superelevation, existing ground sections. This class does not cover writing criteria.

Basic Earthwork
Covers computing earthwork both inside and outside Project Manager. Includes cut/fill calculations, undercuts, unsuitable materials, review of the log file, and how to interactively fix errors.

Superelevation Tools
Discussed in this course is how to define the pavement cross slopes using several different tools. The discussion begins with roadways not requiring superelevation transitions, called shapeless, to automatically calculating superelevation transitions. Then, drawing the pavement shapes and reviewing a variety of review, editing and analysis tools.

Storing Graphics
The Storing Graphics course looks at the different methods of linking graphic elements and linking back into the coordinate geometry database. This includes points, lines, curves, chains, and parcels.

Plan Quantities Utilizing GEOPAK
Using the elements drawn in the construction plan, this course discusses what is needed to compute quantities, reviews the D&C Manager for computations, then performs several different types of computations. Finally, six different output methods, from ASCII file to spreadsheet to databases, are reviewed and examples done.

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GEOPAK Advanced Road Training Library

More Earthwork
This course is a basic introduction to digital terrain modeling (DTM) concepts. DTM keywords and procedures are discussed at length, with video examples to make it easier to understand how to build digital terrain models. The contents are designed for users who are new to GEOPAK and the DTM process.

Advanced Proposed Cross Sections
This course covers more complex projects, such as multiple roadways on a single cross section, and staged cross sections. Other topics include drawing utilities and drainage onto cross sections.

3D GEOPAK
3D topics include generating a DTM from cross sections, 3D Station Offset tool, laying 2D elements onto a 3D DTM model.

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GEOPAK Site Training Library

Introduction to Digital Terrain Modeling
This course is a basic introduction to Digital Terrain Modeling concepts. DTM key words and procedures are discussed at length, with video examples to make it easier to understand how to build digital terrain models. The contents are designed for users who are new to GEOPAK and the DTM process.

Advanced Digital Terrain Modeling
Advanced Digital Terrain Modeling expands on concepts found in the introduction class. This course discusses additional extraction procedures, working with TIN files and advanced tools, including Profiles, Volume Calculations and Slope Areas. Learn the proper use of Theme functions, computing earthwork and working with Drainage tools.

Introduction to COGO
Introduction to coordinate geometry (COGO) covers the creation of a GEOPAK coordinate geometry database (*.GPK file, made up of stored geometric elements such as points, lines, curves, etc.) and includes details on using the COGO Navigator to view, edit and display coordinate geometry elements.

Classic and Graphical COGO
This course covers the use of tools found in the main coordinate geometry (COGO) application, including storing elements such as points, curves, alignments and review of the COGO navigator. Graphical COGO discusses the tools found in the graphical COGO application, which uses a combination of MicroStation-type tools to graphically create, modify and delete COGO elements, while storing them in the coordinate geometry database in the background.

Plans Production Tools
This course covers the tools used to create final site drawings. These include tools to draw the site plan, the labeler and generating the final site plan sheets.

Existing Ground
This course introduces how to generate cross sections using existing ground. Students learn how to generate, display and modify cross sections with illustrations and informative videos. Students also learn how to choose the proper baseline, update existing sections and use Cross Section Navigator.

Beginning Site Modeler
In the context of a site plan for a business park, this course covers the basics: creating a site project, creating objects from site elements, and essential analysis tools. The project contains simple road (using sections), building and parking lot.

Advanced Site Modeler
Continuing in the same project, the advanced course covers composite sections, edit profile, all wizards, the rest of the analysis tools, drawing profiles and cross sections and exporting data out of your site project.

Plan Quantities
Using the elements drawn in the construction plan, this course discusses what is needed to compute quantities, reviews the Design and Computation (D&C) Manager for computations, then performs several different types of computations. Finally, six different output methods, from ASCII file to spreadsheet to databases, are reviewed and examples done.

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GEOPAK Survey Training Library

Introduction to Digital Terrain Modeling (DTM)
This course is a basic introduction to digital terrain modeling (DTM) concepts. DTM keywords and procedures are discussed at length, with video examples to make it easier to understand how to build digital terrain models. The contents are designed for users who are new to GEOPAK and the DTM process.

Advanced DTM
Advanced DTM expands on concepts found in the introduction class. This course discusses additional extraction procedures, working with TIN files and advanced tools, including Profiles, Volume Calculations and Slope Areas. Learn the proper use of Theme functions, computing earthwork and working with Drainage tools.

Field Collection Using Survey
Field Collection covers creating a survey project, setting preferences, review various data types, and importing data from data collectors or ASCII files. Additional topics include how to collect drainage and DTM information.

Office Processing Using Survey
Once the data has been imported, this course addresses how to reduce data, editing data, mapping the data into a MicroStation or AutoCAD file, graphically editing, exporting to Drainage and creating a DTM model.

Geometry for Surveyors
This course covers the different types of geometry tools that are found in Survey. These include classic COGO (coordinate geometry) and graphical COGO. The COGO Navigator is demonstrated for easily reviewing/editing COGO information. Linking graphics back into COGO is also discussed, along with conversions, importing and exporting.

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GEOPAK Drainage Training Library

Introduction to Drainage
As an introductory class, this course details the three components necessary for designing any drainage system — the CAD design, GDF (GEOPAK Drainage File) and the drainage library — and how they work together. Students will learn about working with features, drainage areas and nodes before being instructed on how to create a project, set preferences, defining and adding nodes, analyzing and generating reports.

Design with Drainage
This course provides a workflow overview for designing a drainage system. Learn how to leverage data from one form to another, define drainage areas and use digital terrain managment (DTM) tools.

Plans Production Tools for Drainage
Generating plan sheets, reports and quantity calculations are all detailed in this course. Learn how to create profiles, use the labeler tool and add settings to the style training courses. Students learn to use the Plan/Profile Sheet Composition tools, navigate through the Report Builder and calculate plan quantities with the Design & Computation Manager.

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