How to use Toolbox

Steps, videos and tips for the app and its tools.

Browse a searchable catalog of measurement tools, keep favorites and return through recents. Tools opens the catalog; Saved connects shared Records, Gallery and Charts; Settings holds app-wide choices.

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Getting started

Find a tool

New installations open Tools in List view. Search the catalog, open a tool or a mode, and use favorites and recents to return to it. The view menu can switch to Grid.

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Basics

Tools

Step by step.

Measure

  1. Find a tool

    New installations open Tools in List view. Search the catalog, open a tool or a mode, and use favorites and recents to return to it. The view menu can switch to Grid.

  2. Use the tool’s guide

    Open the tool and follow its guide. Tools use their existing settings and saved-work destinations.

  3. Use the catalog’s Inclination meter

    The Clinometer catalog route opens the reusable Inclination tool. It supports Edge, Back and Level, Lock, relative measurement, Target lock, calibration, remembered settings and Save to Records. Its setup pill opens unit and zero-mark choices; ⋮ contains applicable measurement actions.

Save

  1. Review saved work

    The Saved tab opens Records, Gallery or Charts. Tool-specific libraries and logs remain inside their tools.

Guided tour

Try these steps in the app. All tour instructions stay readable here.

  1. Tools

    Browse, search, favorite and reopen tools from the catalog.

  2. Saved

    Open shared records, media and charts from Saved.

  3. Settings

    Choose the app’s appearance and open Help.

Tool guides.

Each tool in Toolbox has its own guide.

ProtractorCorner rotationRotation angleRoof pitch & slopeLeveling assistantOff-road inclinometerSnow slope meterStrike & dipLaser LevelImage MeterLux MeterDecibel MeterMetal DetectorVibration meterAltimeterTachometerSensor testGPS MapSatellite FinderCompassSun & SkyConstruction toolsElectrical calculatorConduit bendingCalculatorUnit converterRulerInspection cameraAudio analyzerProject timersColor pickerColor visionInclination

Tips.

Pin regularly used tools as favorites and use recents to return after opening another task.

Use List for a compact catalog or switch to Grid in the view menu. The app remembers your chosen view.

Choose a specific mode from the catalog when that is the task you need; a tool opens with its own controls and saved preferences.

Opening a tool shows the live reading without recording. Use its explicit Start or Record action when you want a session.

Look in Saved for shared Records, Gallery and Charts; a tool with its own library or log keeps that history inside the tool.

The catalog disables tools whose required sensor is missing. Check the tool’s own guidance before expecting the same hardware features on another phone.

In Inclination, choose the placement and zero mark before calibrating, then Lock before lifting the phone away to read it.

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