In TPC, a survey can have unlimited numbers of drawings, with each drawing getting its data from the survey itself. If you change the position of a point in the survey, every drawing that uses that point automatically reflects the change in line labels, point labels, and lot areas.
Working Drawing (1:02) - As you enter your survey data, TPC creates the working drawing for you.
Learning Guides
Quick View - TPC has used Quick View™ since its inception in 1987. The idea behind Quick View™ is simple – let the data do the drawings. The Quick View Learning Guide is divided into areas like Traverse Drawing Settings, Legends, Tables and Fills.
Drawings - Learn how to create Drawings using our Quick View™ technology. Leave the hassles of CAD behind. The Drawings Learning Guide is divided into sections like Managing Drawings, Using Drawing Templates and adding Pictures, Blocks and Tables.
What is a Drawing?
Think of a drawing as a picture or map of your geospatial data that you will use internally or deliver to a client.
•For a survey, it might be a control diagram or a finished plat.
•For a city planner, it might be a drawing of a proposed easement.
•For a forester, it might be a unit boundary drawn over a calibrated background photo.
Traverse PC's Quick View™ Technology turns your survey data into a drawing. If you let it, TPC will do most of the drawing for you.
The result of using Quick View technology is that you DON'T HAVE TO MANUALLY DRAW EVERYTHING. Letting Quick View do the work for you allows you to draw your surveys with very little manual drafting and maintains the drawing integrity as you modify the survey data. Remember, It's Not CAD.
The Drawing View
In TPC, you do all your drawing in the Drawing View.
Although a survey can have any number of drawings, you'll work with one drawing at a time, and switch to any other drawing or add new drawings in the Drawing Manager.
Drawings Automatically Stay Current
This is a very powerful feature of TPC Desktop. Because each drawing references the survey data, each one remains current as you add or modify traverses and survey points. This is a welcome feature that typical CAD packages can't offer.
Drawing Data
You can also access a drawings data in the Drawing Data Manager. This view exposes a drawing’s data in a familiar tree structure, allowing you to edit objects or just turn them on and off.
Drawing Templates
Drawing templates are also very easy to create. Just complete a drawing and save it as a template. TPC saves all the paper space objects, page size, orientation, scale, blocks and the survey position on the page.
Multiple Drawings
You can have any number of drawings in a survey.
Each drawing remembers which traverses, surfaces, settings and drawing objects belong to it. You can open a drawing, work on it, then open a different drawing. You can make a copy of an existing drawing and then add more information to the copy without affecting the original drawing. Keep track of your drawings in the Drawing Manager.
Managing Drawings
•From the TPC Desktop menu choose Manage | Drawings. TPC displays the Drawings Manager.
•To open an existing drawing, just double click it. TPC opens that drawing in the Drawing View.
Saving a Drawing
Drawings are saved when you save the survey. TPC doesn't have a 'Save Drawing' command. Drawings are also saved when the survey autosaves. So opening an autosave file will open the saved drawings also.
Sharing Drawings
TPC lets you share drawings with other programs through file formats like DXF, DWG, DGN, PDF, PNG, Shape, GIF, TIF, JPG and others. You share a drawing by exporting the current drawing.
•From the Drawing View choose Tools | Export Drawing as.
•Choose the drawing file type from the Export dialog.
