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You can export traverses as polyline shapes both from the Traverses Manager and from a drawing.
When you export Traverses from the survey, TPC writes the traverse boundaries as Polyline shapes. Each traverse becomes a Polyline record in the shape file. If you export 10 traverses, your shape file will contain 10 polyline shape records.
Exporting Traverses as Polylines
•From the Traverses Manager, select the traverses you want to export and then choose File | Export. You will see the Export dialog.
•Select ESRI Shape from the Type list.
•Tell TPC to export Tagged or Selected traverses.
•Enter a file name for the export file or choose Browse.
•Choose Settings, select the option to export Points or Polylines and whether or not to include elevations.
•Choose OK.
•From the Export dialog, choose Export.
TPC writes one Point or Polyline, PointZ or PolylineZ shape record to the Shape file for each selected traverse. The database file contains one record for each traverse in which the name of the traverse is stored.
Exporting Traverses as Points
You can export just the points referenced by the selected traverses by repeating the steps above, but selecting the Points option in the Settings dialog.
Exporting Elevations
You can tell TPC to export Polyline / Point shapes (without elevations) or PolylilneZ / PointZ shapes (with elevations). See Exporting Shape Elevations.
Exporting Drawing Polylines
When you export a drawing as Polylines, TPC writes each tagged traverse (these are the traverses that show up in the drawing) as a Polyline shape, plus any other drawing objects that qualify as a Polyline shape. This differs from exporting just the traverses from the Traverses Manager.
See Exporting Drawings as Shape Files.
Exported DBF Data
When exporting traverses, TPC exports some of the data fro each traverse to the shape DBF file.
•Name and Description
•Length, Area (square units) and Area (acres or hectares)
•Linear error of closure - for closed loop traverses only
•Location - see Location tab
•Parcel - see Parcel tab
See Shape Data Base Files.
Related Topics
Using GIS
Exporting Point Shapes
Exporting Drawings
Shape Data Base Files
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