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- Everyone who works from plans
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- Your phone or tablet
Field Tools · Peep Sight
Your phone is the hand level.
Peep Sight is free, runs in your phone's browser, and works today.
Live now
Shoot a mark with the phone already in your pocket.
A grade checker spends the day with a hand level in one hand and a tape in the other. Peep Sight puts a true level line across the phone camera, marks the phone at a fixed height so the tape has somewhere to sit, and tells you cut or fill by color, so you can read it out of the corner of your eye while you hold the tape.
On grade
Fill: tip up to hit the mark
Cut: tip down to hit the mark
Peep Sight replaces a hand level, not an instrument. After its two-shot level check, expect about 0.1°, roughly 0.1 ft at 50 ft. Use it for checks and pre-construction, not for staking.
What it does
Everything a hand level does, plus the read.
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True level line
Drawn from the phone's tilt sensor and the camera's lens geometry, so it stays level across the whole view even when the phone rolls in your hand.
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Fixed tape notches
Big notches on both edges of the screen mark one fixed height on the phone. Set them at your tape mark and the lines move around them.
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Cut and fill at a glance
The whole screen edge glows green on grade, blue when the mark is low (fill), red when it's high (cut), and deepens past the band lines. A quick shake when it locks on.
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Slope thumb wheel
Roll the wheel on the left edge to shoot a slope, plus or minus. The yellow target line follows it, a green line stays at true level, and a double-tap goes back to level.
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Zoom wheel
Roll the bottom wheel to zoom on the crosshair for a mark a long way off. No pinching with one hand full of tape.
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Level check
Two reciprocal shots between two marks at the same height measure the phone's sensor error and correct it, the same check you'd run on a hand level.
How a shot works
Set. Hold. Aim. Read.
SET
Dial the grade
Leave the thumb wheel at 0% for a level shot, or roll in the slope you're checking.
HOLD
Phone on the tape
Put the side notches at your tape mark, say 5.00 ft above the hub.
AIM
Sight the stake
Bring the mark on the stake to the crosshair. Zoom in if it's far.
READ
Read the glow
Green is on grade. Blue means fill, red means cut, with the difference shown under the crosshair.
Get it on your phone
No app store. Open it and go.
Open field.dirtworksge.com/sight in your phone's browser and tap Start. Allow motion and camera access when asked.
- Tap the browser's Share button.
- Choose Add to Home Screen.
- Peep Sight installs with the DirtWorks icon and opens full screen.
Not survey equipment. Phone positions and every reading, grade, quantity and estimate are approximate: check them against project control and a licensed surveyor or engineer before you build, stake, bid or pay. See the Terms.
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Next: distance to the mark
The native DirtWorks Field app will use the phone's depth sensor to measure the distance to whatever is under the crosshair.
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Part of DirtWorks Field
Peep Sight lives alongside the DirtWorks Field app at field.dirtworksge.com, where your crews walk the plans and site data from Hive.
Coming soon
DirtWorks Grade Checker
RTK grade checking against your Hive models, built into the DirtWorks Field app. The grade checker sees cut and fill against the finished-design surface at their boots, and the office sees every shot as it's taken.
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RTK against the model
Bring your own RTK receiver over a wireless connection. Check cut and fill against the same design surfaces the office keeps in Hive.
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Hands-free
Voice commands to take a shot or switch screens, and cut or fill read out loud, so your hands stay on the rod and the tape.
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Live to Hive, no syncing
Every shot streams to Hive the moment it's taken. No end-of-day download, no file to forget.
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Office in the loop
Model updates push to the field in real time, and the checker chooses when to switch to the new model. The office watches shots land live.
The tools around the Hive
What each one does for you.
Every tool brings its work home to your company's Hive. How the platform works
Free to viewComing soonGrade Checker
Check grade against the design with your own RTK receiver. Cut or fill at your boots, read out loud, every shot saved to the Hive.
- For
- Grade checkers and the office watching them
- Runs
- In the DirtWorks app
FreePeep Sight
A hand level in your phone. A true level line, tape marks and slope, with cut or fill shown by color. Free for everyone.
- For
- Anyone with a tape and a grade to check
- Runs
- Your phone, no account
LiveHummingbird
Fly your own drone; we turn the photos into a ground surface, point cloud and aerial photo in your Hive.
- For
- Drone pilots and contractors
- Runs
- On our processing servers
LiveSite Scan
We fly your site for you and deliver a finished, controlled surface to your Hive. Priced by the acre.
- For
- Owners, GCs and contractors who need topo
- Runs
- We fly, you open it in Hive
LiveHive Desktop
The office side of the Hive: set up jobs, line up plans, compare surfaces for cut/fill, manage the team and sharing.
- For
- The Hive manager and the office
- Runs
- Any web browser