Creating Retaining Walls in MudShark

Take a look at the video below, showcasing methods to create retaining walls in MudShark Create complex Retaining walls using a combination of Structures and Trenches. Establish the top and bottom of your wall separately. Separating the top and bottom of your wall into trench and capping structure gives you […]

Creating overlayed structures in MudShark

Learn how to create complex structure surfaces. Take a look at the video below, showcasing the Overlay Surface tool for structures in MudShark Create surfaces that are otherwise not possible using surface overlay. Sometimes you’ll be given structures with internal surfaces defined by contours / spots or even both. This […]

Tutorial Videos: New Year 2023

New Year, New videos! We hope you all had a great Christmas & New Year break. This month we wanted to cover some of the features we feel are often overlooked by our users, MudSharks Measurement Tools & Material Management. Speed up your Cut & Fill estimation workflow by learning […]

Tutorial Videos: November 2022

Wait, it’s November already? This month we’re covering How to Input and Place Bore Hole Data, as well as a slightly different kind of video: Troubleshooting and Optimizing your MudShark projects. Converting the data from your Geotech Reports / Soil Reports isn’t always a straightforward task, we’d planned to fit […]

Tutorial Video: October 2022

A little late, but here we are! Due to our Video producer contracting covid there’s only one video this month, rest assured we’ll be back to two for November though! This month, we’re covering Creating Contours and Spot Elevations. Plan quality is something most of our users have little control […]

Tutorial Videos: September 2022

Hi again! As we mentioned in our Mid-Year Update Blog Post, we’ve got another set of tutorial videos. This month, we’re covering Importing and Adjusting Your Plan Files and Trenching Networks. As MudShark’s Trenching Network tool has so many use cases, we thought it best to briefly cover as many […]

New MudShark Update [8.1.31.0]

Improvements & Fixes This will be the final sub-release of version 8, with version 9 due out later this year. If you’re no longer in software assurance, this will be your last chance to re-join software assurance before MudShark version 9 arrives. Contact info@brightboxsoftware.com to arrange a quote. Patch Notes […]

MudShark Mid-year Update

What’s been in the works We thought it about time to update you all on what we’ve been working on behind the scenes. The pandemic impacted us all in different ways, however, we’ve been hard at work improving MudShark and helping our users on support. With Version 9 on the […]

New MudShark Update [8.1.15.0]

Improvements & Fixes Enhancements Upgrade Remote support tool to latest version. Improved demolished structure back-fill calculation. Sped up splash screen loading when launching. Sometimes when MudShark launches there is a delay in the splash screen appearing which can lead to multiple clicks on the MudShark launch icon and multiple MudSharks […]

New MudShark Update [8.0.13.0]

Improvements & Fixes IFC Support for Surface Processing MudShark can now read ifc files, which can then be used to create existing, or proposed, site surfaces from the ifc tin. See ifc surface video. Error checking on Boundary Input We have added error checking of boundary input to warn users […]

Over a Decade of MudShark

When Brightbox Software was formed in September 2009, we had a simple vision: develop earthworks takeoff software that was accurate and easy to use. And when we first released MudShark, the feedback we got was that we accomplished our goal.  Over the years, we continued developing MudShark, striving to make […]

New MudShark Update [7.0.19]

Improvements & Fixes Improved how calculations are completed when invalid boundaries are in use. Improved how you can takeoff lengths; so curves are easier to trace from a plan and how you can use a transmuted line. Fixed an issue where Calculate was not available after overlayed measurements are calculated. […]