Add Holes

When the map data has loaded, you land on the Course Builder. This is the main design canvas. The Canvas shows your selected area as a satellite image with OpenStreetMap terrain elements. All design work is GPS-positioned on the Canvas.

Holes are the core building blocks of your course. Each Hole has a Tee and a Target.

1. Click Add Hole in the floating toolbar at the bottom center of the Canvas.
2. Click the Canvas to place the Tee.
3. Click the Canvas again to place the Target.

The Hole is now complete. Parkdly starts to place the Tee of the next Hole, so you can keep adding Holes.

To bend the Flight Path, right-click before you place the Target. Each right-click adds a control point.

On a phone or tablet, a course with no Holes also shows Add your first hole in the middle of the map. Close it with × if you want to start with something else.

Tip: Add all your Holes first, then shape each one. This is faster than shaping as you go.

Draw a Hole in one stroke

You can also make a Hole in one stroke. A stroke shorter than 10 m from start to end does not create a Hole. Choose Draw in the menu next to the Hole title in the card (Hole 5 · Place ▾). Then drag from where the Tee goes to where the Target goes. The length shows above your finger while you draw.

When you let go, Parkdly removes small irregularities and turns the clear turns into bends (up to four). It then creates the Hole. This is the same Hole you get by clicking. You can reshape it and undo it the same way.

On a phone or tablet, Add Hole starts in Draw mode. After that, it remembers your last choice on that device.

• Two fingers move and zoom the map while Draw is on. They never draw.
• With a mouse, hold Space and drag, or drag with the right mouse button, to move the map while Draw is on.
• With a mouse, the pointer turns into a brush while Draw is on. A plain click does not make a Hole. The card asks you to drag from Tee to Target, and Place by clicking instead switches to Place.

Choose Place in the same menu to place the Tee and Target one at a time. Tap the map, or use Tee here and Target here (the crosshair button) while you walk the course. To bend the Hole, tap Add bend, then tap where the Fairway turns. Or tap Bend here while you stand there. After Tee here, the Flight Path follows you as you walk, and the card shows its length so far.

Live Hole length

After you place the Tee, the card above the toolbar shows the live Hole length as you move toward the Target. Click to place the Target at the length you want.

On a phone or tablet, there is no pointer to follow. The length then counts what you have placed so far, from the Tee to your last bend (Add bend). The same readout appears when you add an extra Tee or Target. It shows the length for each selected Layout.

When Parkdly saves a Hole, the card confirms it for a moment, for example Hole 5 added · 84 m · par 3. The length is measured along the bends, the same way Parkdly measures the Hole from then on. Tap Done in the card when you finish adding Holes. On a phone, the card title names the Hole you are adding, for example Hole 7 · Draw tee to target.

Done, Cancel and Finish

The button in the card follows what you have on the map:

• Done ends the tool and keeps everything you placed. Parkdly saves each Hole, object or point as you place it.
• Cancel appears while something is half-made. This can be a Tee without its Target, the first point of a mando, or a Boundary or area you are still drawing. It drops that unfinished item.
• Finish appears for tools that draw a line or an area. It saves the shape when it has enough points: 2 for a line, 3 for an area.
• Esc does the same as the Done or Cancel button in the card.

Tee rotation and size

A new Tee turns to face its Flight Path. A new Tee and Target have a standard real size. To rotate a Tee by hand or set its real size, see Holes and boundaries.