Modifying Traverses in Drawing View

This topic discusses how you can modify existing traverses in Drawing View by selecting text, points, lines, arcs and polylines in the drawing or just by left clicking to create new survey points.

You start all of these commands by right clicking an object in Drawing View that is drawn by the traverse you want to modify. You can right click a point symbol, point label, survey line or survey line label, lot label or lot area label.

Adding Points to a Traverse

You can also add points to an existing traverse.

Right click any object of the traverse you want to modify.
Choose Traverse Tools | Add Points to Traverse.
Fill out the information in the Add Points to Traverse dialog.
Follow the drawing command prompts on the status bar to select data into the traverse.
When you are finished selecting data into the traverse, press Enter.

The Add Points to Traverse dialog provides a number of methods you can use to select data into a traverse.

Inserting and Deletings Survey Points in a Traverse

You can delete survey points from or add survey points to an existing traverse. This command adds and removes existing survey points only. You can not use this command to left click and create a new point or snap to the end of the line. You will probably use it to modify traverses you've created to plot feature lines. If the line includes a jog over to an unwanted point, just remove it from its traverse.

Right click any object of the traverse you want to modify and choose Traverse Tools | Insert / Delete Survey Points.
To delete a point from the traverse, position the cursor over its point symbol or point label and left click. TPC redraws the traverse without the point.
To insert a new point into the traverse, position the cursor over its point symbol or point label and left click. TPC inserts the point into the traverse between the two closest existing traverse points.

Editing a Traverse

You can edit the traverse that created the lines and text you are looking at in the drawing.

Right click any traverse object like a point symbol, point label, line or line label and choose Edit Traverse....

TPC opens the Traverse View for that traverse and positions the cursor at the point that you selected in the Drawing View.

Moving a Traverse On Screen

Right click any traverse object like a point symbol, point label, line or line label and choose Modify Objects | Move.
Follow the drawing command prompts to select a base point and drag the traverse to its new location.

To undo the move, choose Edit | Undo.

Translating a Traverse via COGO

Right click any traverse object like a point symbol, point label, line or line label and choose Traverse Tools | Translate....
Choose the translation options from the Translate dialog.

To undo this translation, you will need to repeat the command and choose Undo from the Translate dialog.

Rotating a Traverse On Screen

Right click any traverse object like a point symbol, point label, line or line label and choose Modify Objects | Rotate.
Follow the drawing command prompts to select a base point and drag the traverse to its new location.

To undo the move, choose Edit | Undo.

Rotating a Traverse via COGO

Right click any traverse object like a point symbol, point label, line or line label and choose Traverse Tools | Rotate...
Choose the rotation options from the Rotate dialog.

To undo this rotation, you will need to repeat the command and choose Undo from the Rotate dialog.

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