TPC 2026 - Creating Traverses From Point Codes

Creating Traverses From Point Codes

Point Codes allow you to add survey points to traverses based on their codes. Then, once added, they can be sorted to the nearest neighbor, included in a drawing, etc..

You can think of these traverses as layers with feature lines and symbols.

You can put all the points with the 'CL' code into a center line traverse, then plot that traverse with the line type, symbols, colors, etc that you want to indicate a center line.

Sorting Point By Code

TPC calls adding points to traverses by their point codes, Sorting Points by Code.

•Choose Tools | Sort Points Into Traverses By Codes from the Point Codes Manager.

•TPC will display the Sort Points by Code dialog.

From this dialog, you can choose to sort just the selected codes, the tagged codes or all the codes. You can also choose to update the survey point descriptions, adding the code descriptions (i.e. 'CL' becomes 'CL Center Line') or replacing codes with their descriptions (i.e. 'CL HWY126' becomes 'Center Line HWY 126').

TPC combines the code and the description to form the traverse name when it creates a new traverse for a point code (i.e. 'CL' creates the traverse 'CL - Center Line'). This makes it easy to identify which traverse contains which codes.

Example Traverse Names

CL - Center Line

SW - Side Walk

CB - Catch Basins

Using Point Code Aliases

When adding points to traverses based on their point codes, you can further control which traverse points are placed in through the use of Aliases. See Using Point Code Aliases.

Traverse Drawing Settings

Each traverse that is created, receives it's Traverse Drawing Settings from the code that created it.

Traverse Layers

When a traverse is created from a point code, that code can also set the Traverse Layer. See Traverse Layers.