Traverse PC: Desktop Version 6.0

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Traverse PC - Desktop Version 6.0
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Features added or improved in this version include:

Pictures...

Hatching and Filling...

Filling a Traverse...

User-Defined Line Types...

Shape File Support...

NAD27...

Ellipses...

Corner Offsets...

Single Row Option in Traverse View...

Cross Sections...

Pictures...

Map with Aerial Photo Graphics will enhance almost any drawing and your customers will be duly impressed with this great new feature of Version 6.0. Now you can insert a picture right into your TPC drawing so it appears behind your survey drawing. That’s right, you can import bitmaps, GIF, JPG, and Icons and place them onto your map wherever you like. Drag-n-drop them where you want them to appear on the map; resize them to fit just right and you’ve just improved the professional look of your map and exercised your “Craftsmanship” to the fullest.

TPC uses the standard Windows dialog for selecting pictures, making it really nice to manage your graphics and easily pick the one you want.

Hatching and Filling...

Site Map with Hatching and Filling TPC allows you to fill drawing objects like circles, rectangles and polylines with a variety of fill patterns. You can choose from solid fills, patterns or bitmaps—you’re not constrained by the limitations of CAD.

Filling Objects

You can easily fill an object by choosing a fill type from the object’s properties dialog. The fill will move and resize as necessary with the object.

Solid Fill

The Solid Fill feature uses the current color to fill the object selected.

Pattern Fill

The Pattern Fill uses the current color to fill the object with the pattern. Pattern fills include Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal (forward), Diagonal (backward), Cross and Diagonal Cross.

Bitmap Fill

You can fill an object with an existing Bitmap. Bitmap fills do not use the current color. Their colors are defined within the bitmaps themselves.

Filling a Traverse...

You fill a traverse in the Control Point Settings dialog. TPC creates a region defined by the control points of the traverse and fills that region with the selected fill type.

Since the fill is like any other traverse setting, you can copy it to other traverses and each traverse can have its own fill type.

User-Defined Line Types...

TPC now has Predefined and User Defined line types including:

1) Text lines like —-<WATER>—-,

2) Symbol lines like ,

3) Pattern lines like Dash and DashDot,

4) Marker lines like ticks and slashes, and

5) All of AutoCAD’s predefined types like

Dash, Dash2, Phantom, Divide, etc.

Like the total station drivers in TPC Handheld, the new line types are table driven. The line names and their syntax are all in an ASCII text file that can easily be modified to make an arrow larger or put more space between a dash and a dot.

Right click any line and choose “Add to Legend”. Version 6 even includes legend options to increase the symbol width, making room for complex line types to show their whole pattern.

Adding line types like TPC’s Rock Wall to a drawing is all about Craftsmanship.

Shape File Support...

Shape Files

Shape files have been added to Traverse PC to store GIS data. Now, just export your subdivision as a shape file and each lot in the subdivision becomes its own shape in the GIS database.

The TPC Difference

By providing the option of importing shapes into the survey or a drawing we’ve given you the best of two worlds. Import polyline shapes into the survey and you have ready made traverses, just like you would have created them in TPC Desktop. Import polyline shapes into a drawing and you have a perfect map, plus you can still convert any shape to a traverse. It’s like having your cake and eating it too.

Control

GIS can involve a lot of data – we’re talking thousands of shapes, points, polylines, etc. Lose control and you’ve got a mess. Use TPC and you control the data – it’s just that simple.

GIS files store non-topological geometry and attribute information for the spatial features in a GIS data set. Shapes define positions, boundaries and areas. TPC supports the shape definitions defined in ‘ESRI Shapefile Technical Description – An ESRI White Paper – July 1998’.

NAD27...

TPC now supports NAD27 projections. We have added all the NAD27 zones (we already had the NAD83 zones and UTM zones for the continental U.S.).

TPC also supports conversion between metric and imperial based on US Survey or International foot. This is important since many (30+) states and counties have legislated the use of one or the other.

Ellipses...

The earth isn’t round, it’s elliptical – so the ellipse parameters can make a huge difference on whether or not you get the results you expect. And, as if that’s not enough, everyone’s got their own idea of what those parameters should be.

Confidence

TPC understands State Plane Coordinates, Projections, Ellipses and all that stuff you may or may not understand yourself. We know how it works and we know how to make it work for you. Providing the U.S. Survey Foot vs. International Conversion is an example of TPC knowing what it takes to do the job right.

If you are transforming a survey, the target ellipse values are stored with the survey in the TRV file. All future transformations between grid and geodetic positions will be based on these stored ellipse values.

Complete

Traverse PC provides all the zone data for NAD83, NAD27 and UTM, plus the major ellipses like GRS80 and WGS84. We also let you add your own ellipses to accommodate whatever comes along.

Corner Offsets...

Corner Offsets Create two offsets (reference points) at each corner of a construction feature like a foundation or footing. The offset points assume the point label of the corner with the letters A and B appended (i.e. point 12 creates the offset points 12A and 12B).

The offset points are added to the traverse as side shots from each corner. The offset distances can be edited in the Traverse View creating offsets at varying distances.

This feature has a lot of applications other than house foundations. Virtually any construction survey job can benefit from Corner Offsets.

You can also use it as a template, then enter your own distances for custom offsets. If you do a lot of construction staking - you’re saying, “Don’t make me change what I do to fit your program. Just give me the tools to do what I do.” We understand. Have at it!

Single Row Option in Traverse View...

TPC V6.0 provides the option to show 1 or 2 lines per point in the Traverse View. When “2 Lines” is chosen, TPC V6.0 will wrap text in the Description column so you see more of your data.

The “2 Line” format is better for use in the field since it separates points making them easier to read—like the traditional Field Book. And anything that makes it easier in the field is something to seriously consider having. We know, we’re surveyors too and use this program in our own surveying business.

Cross Sections...

Like so many TPC tools, the Cross Section tools provide a really fast way for the user to get information.

TPC has a new Vertical Space value in the Drawing Settings dialog. When the Vertical Space value is set to zero, the user can track the cross section elevations right on the screen – the cursor shows the offset distance left/right from center-line and the actual elevation of any point on the cross section.

When the Vertical Space value is other than zero, TPC labels each cross section with its own elevation and the Quick View no longer tracks the elevation for you.