Traverse PC: Learning Guide

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Traverse PC - Learning Guides

We are very excited about the TPC Desktop Learning Guides. The two volumes present nearly 30 short "Learning Units" on the things our users ask about most and with which they’ve been most impressed. Most chapters are just 7 or 8 pages to fit easily into your busy day and each page covers another bite-size piece of the Unit. You’ll love the easy-to-absorb format the Learning Guide uses. So whether you just read through the Guide or actually sit down and work through each Learning Unit on your computer, you’ll pick up those little pearls that will help build your TPC skills.

The Learning Guide is divided into two volumes. The Learning Guide contains information that applies to all users and all Editions of Traverse PC. The Advanced Learning Guide contains information that applies only to the Premium and Professional Editions of TPC (some topics do not apply to the Premium Edition and are clearly labeled).

The Learning Guide is available in two formats. The eLearning Guide is in the Adobe PDF format and is included on the Traverse PC program CD. (You can access the eLearning Guides from the Help menu in Traverse PC Desktop.) Hard copies of the Learning Guide are also available for purchase.

In Each Unit You'll Find...

Clearly stated tasks demonstrated in the chapter

A .trv file you can open to get started quickly

A single page for each task, making the concept easy-to-absorb

Concise 1, 2, 3… steps

Lots of pictures saying, "Your screen should look like this."

Hints about where to find more information in the On-Line help files

Here are some of the topics you'll find in the TPC Learning Guide...

Learning Guide...

Importing from a Data Collector - How to import, Message View, evaluating imported data, using Traverse View and Quick View, scrap traverse, tagging traverses.

Using ASCII Files - Formatting, exporting, and importing.

Horizontal Curves - Entering Horizontal Curves in the Traverse View, Entering a Horizontal Curve with Chord Bearing and Distance, Horizontal Curve Dialog Box, Non-Tangent Curves, Entering Horizontal Curves using PI’s, Estimating the Radius, Floating Horizontal Curves Using Tangents, Entering Horizontal Curves using Radius Points, Creating Cul-de-Sacs.

Using COGO Tools - Setting the Default Direction, Inserting a Midpoint on a Line or Curve, Recalling Data from the Previous Point, Recalling Data Using Equations, Inserting and Recalling Points, Shared Lot Lines, Rotate, Translate, Inversing, Offsets, Corner Offsets, Intersections, Resections, Benchmarks.

Using Quick View - Selecting objects, using Drawing Settings, Traverse Settings, and Object Properties, changing and copying settings, adding Lot Labels, moving objects, trimming symbols, Miscellaneous Settings, saving settings, hiding objects.

Drawings - How drawings work, temporary drawings, starting a new drawing, using Page Layout mode, Printer/Plotter and page setup, storing settings with the drawing, scaling and positioning the survey, closing the drawing.

Inserting Objects into a Drawing - Object library, understanding object files, resizing objects, north arrow, scale bar, stamp, title block, logo, other objects, creating your own objects.

Adding Text to a Drawing - Picking up where drawing settings leave off, using fonts, current text settings, adding a monument note in survey space, adding a street name using angled text, adding a drawing title in paper space, adding a narrative using a text box, adding record data to an existing label.

Drawing Templates - What are templates, starting a drawing using a template, creating a template, what it includes, editing templates, using groups in templates.

Adding a Legend - Adding a legend to a drawing, parts of the legend, adding symbols automatically, editing legend item descriptions, editing legend item symbols, adding line types to a legend, adding text items to a legend, rearranging legend items, deleting the legend.

Drawing Commands - Current object settings, command steps, ending a command, undoing commands, nested commands, entering exact values, using ortho mode, snapping to objects.

Using Pictures in Drawings - Inserting a picture, referencing the survey to a picture, rescaling and repositioning a survey with a picture, editing a picture, inserting a picture as a vicinity map, resizing a picture.

Using Enhanced Hatching in Drawings - Filling drawing objects, clearing text in fills, appending a fill to the legend, filling traverses, moving objects and layers forward and backward.

Advanced Learning Guide...

Creating Setbacks - Creating setback lines and including them in the Quick View, Traverse Settings vs. Drawing Settings, copying Traverse Settings.

Writing Legal Descriptions - Convert any traverse, styles and options, adding to a report, inserting into Quick View.

Using Latitude and Longitude - Working with a grid, entering Lat/Long in Traverse View, displaying Lat/Long in Traverse View, single transformation, transform survey from one grid to another.

Stakeout Report - Generating a stakeout report, reading the stakeout report, selecting points from the Point View, previewing the printout, formatting the stakeout report, printing a stakeout report.

Reusing CAD Blocks - What kind of DXF file you need, Using the "Get blocks from file" command, organizing the blocks.

Adding Line and Curve Tables - Using table styles, adding a record data column, adding table items manually

Profiles - Drawing profiles, grid settings, vertical ratio, labeling profiles.

Vertical Curves - Specifying curves manually, letting TPC pick the curves, re-computing vertical curves.

Using Point Codes - What they are, generating codes from points, sorting point into traverses, sorting points within a traverse.

Using Layers - What layers are, changing the current layer, adding objects to a layer, changing an object's layer, controlling object properties by layer, managing layers, turning layers off and freezing layers, locking layers, ignoring layers, isolating layers.

Importing Drawings - Importing a DXF / DWG file into an existing drawing, converting an object to a traverse, importing multiple DXF / DWG files, converting all objects on a layer, importing an existing CAD drawing, changing the drawing extents.

Contours - Creating a single contour, editing contour settings, recomputing contours, editing topo points, smoothing contours, creating a transect, computing volumes, deleting a contour, creating a contour for a traverse, editing the border, drawing the TIN, editing breaklines, creating a contour for selected points.

Need more help?

Give us a call and let us know which Unit you want help with. We’ll schedule a training session for you and e-mail or fax you the training guide for that Unit. Then one of our technicians will call you back and walk you through the Unit step-by-step. This is all part of our new fee-based training program, allowing us to tailor the training to your needs. Purchase

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