The tutorials tab provides easy to follow, step-by-step instructions demonstrating how to use various features of the program and provides guidance for more specific analysis features of SWedge. This section includes topics like terminology, general features, input data, analysis methods, viewing and display options, and more.īegin with the Swedge Overview page for an overview of the program and analysis assumptions. The Documentation tab helps you to get familiar with program features and provides details on specific tools/functions of the software. If you are a new user of SWedge, you should begin by completing the SWedge Quick Start Tutorial to help familiarize yourself with the software’s main functions. SWedge is a quick, interactive, and simple to use analysis tool for evaluating the stability of surface wedges in rock slopes defined by two (or three) intersecting discontinuity planes, the slope surface, and an optional tension crack.