About Us

Trakware is a leader in the development of powerful, easy to use and affordable excavation estimating software.

Trakware was established in 1992 in Chicago, Illinois. 

In that same year, Trakware launched the first version of their flagship product, EarthWorks for DOS.  The DOS version of EarthWorks was groundbreaking in several ways.  It was the first affordable excavating program, costing many thousands of dollars less than it's competition.  It was designed from the ground up to be user friendly.  And it spoke the user's commands and elevation entries, freeing him or her from having to concentrate on their computer screen rather than their drawing.

Trakware relocated to Albuquerque, NM in 1997.

In that same year, Trakware released Earthworks for Windows.  That program continued their tradition of designing software with the user in mind.  The Windows version of EarthWorks was laid out identically to the DOS version, allowing users to transition seamlessly to the newer platform.

In 1998 Trakware released TrenchWorks.  TrenchWorks was another example of Trakware's design philosophy of simplicity and ease-of-use.  Within that same year, two other similar competitive programs were released, only to both fail with the following two years because they were simply too complicated to operate.

In 1999 Trakware released SectionWorks. SectionWorks allows users to estimate road, rail or canal excavation projects from cross-section drawings.  Based on the TrenchWorks design, it was also a simple program to use.

And during those years, Trakware has continued to refine it's product line.

In 2000, Trakware released EarthWorks as a 32-bit program in order to harness the power of Windows NT and 2000.

In 2003, Trakware released EarthWorks Pro.  The Pro version of EarthWorks allows estimators to bypass most or all of the tedious task of digitizing from paper drawings.  EarthWorks Pro reads drawing information directly from AutoCAD drawings.  This allows several hours of tedious digitizing to be reduced to minutes of importing from an AutoCAD file.

In 2005, Trakware released the newest version of EarthWorks and EarthWorks Pro with hours of built-in training videos.

In 2006, Trakware will be releasing it's most important version of EarthWorks since the introduction of EarthWorks for Windows.  The newest version of EarthWorks, currently in beta testing,  uses solid modeling techniques in it's engine to give the most precise estimates yet.

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