Create and Manage Materials

Create and Manage Materials

Civil Tracker includes the ability to create various materials.  Materials serve different purposes for various markets across construction, mining and waste management.  At a high level materials is an attribute to separate different items on your site such as gravel, clay, topsoil etc.

All projects start with no predefined materials and you will need to add any materials relevant to your project.  Simply click "Add Material" to get started.



Each Material Can be given a name and a color.  The user must also pick the closest material type from a pre-defined list.  If nothing suitable can be found in the list, just chose 'other'.


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