Recorded Demos – Traverse PC

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Getting Started

Works Like You Think	We introduce you to the key concepts of TPC: Views™, Traverses™ and Quick View™. Everyone needs to learn these.
Getting Started with TPC Desktop	We walk through the things you really need to know to jump into TPC Desktop and be successful. Join us to see how TPC Desktop can help you let your data do the work for you.
Working with TPC Desktop or “What Do I Do Now”	We show you how to start a new project, get your data into it and get started with creating a drawing.
Surfaces	In TPC Desktop, surfaces are wickedly simple. We show you how to create a surface, then improve the surface model with break lines and a border.

Workflows

Planning Workflows	We look at a parking lot design that involves lighting, bio-sales, grading, drainage, pavement, striping and more.
Deliverables	We walk through the steps of producing deliverables for a client – ASCII points, Drawing PDFs, CAD, LandXML, Traverse Reports and more.
Plat Checking	We recreate a CAD plat, checking boundaries, alignments and parcels.
Using COGO	We’ll show you how to access TPC’s COGO efficiently. It’s pretty fun!

Alignments

Curves and Spirals	See how easy it is to work with your curves and spirals in TPC Desktop. KIS (Keep It Simple)!
Offsets & Setbacks	We take a look at TPC Desktop’s tools for doing offsets and setbacks. We use some tools in unexpected ways; these are some of the screwdrivers in the TPC Desktop toolbox.
Alignment Stations and Offsets	How to work with your alignments plus other uses for some of the tools.

Drawing

Drawings	We’ll show you how easy it is to produce your drawings using TPC’s proprietary QuickView™ technology.
Quick View™ & Drawings	If you draw in TPC like you do in CAD, TPC won’t save you any time so take your CAD hat off – put your TPC hat on.
Smart Tables	We go in deep on working with Traverse PC’s Smart Tables in the Drawing View.
Text in Drawings	We show you how to use the different text tools in the Drawing View.
Drawing Templates	Traverse PC’s drawing templates are dynamic, able to provide any desired page size and orientation because of TPC’s unique Paper Space vs Survey Space. Learn how to create a drawing template from any existing drawing, then edit the template to provide just what you want moving forward.
Creating and Editing Details and Groups	We take an in-depth look at the new Details tool in TPC Desktop 2021. It makes it easy and intuitive to create details in your drawings. You can set them to any size and scale as needed and it is easy to edit the resulting group using the new group editing tools.
Drawing Data Manager	We show you some of the tools that are available to you in the Drawing Data Manager (DDM) for finding, accessing and modifying all of the objects in your drawing, even if they are hidden or off the screen!
Point Codes	Using Point Codes in TPC Desktop can really be a time-saver in creating your drawings. See how easy it is to build a code list one job at a time to automate most of your drawing process.

Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) / Calibrations

CRS Part 1 of 3	We cast a wide net as we learn the components in TPC’s Coordinate Reference System (CRS) and how they interact in a survey. Traverse PC is just as comfortable working with geodetics as it is with planar computations.
CRS Part 2 of 3	We take a deeper dive into Coordinate Reference Systems with 2 case studies.
CRS Part 3 of 3	We look at a PLSS case that uses geodetics and State Plane to meet the requirements of true bearing and ground distance.
GIS Interface	We show you how to work with ESRI .SHP files along with how the projections and coordinate reference systems work with them and your data.
Calibrations	Calibrations use Least Squares to fit any coordinate system to another coordinate system. User can then forward/reverse calibrate between the two plus use any existing calibration as the Site Calibration for a survey.
Google Earth	When we introduced background (raster) images in 2004 they caught on right away. Suddenly, clients could see our surveys superimposed right over an image of their property. With such a great visual reference, the survey made sense. They could see the encroachments and easements that were so hard for them to visualize before. Well Google Earth is the next great visualization tool. Someone said, “It’s like playing with fire, but safer”.

Legal Descriptions

Phrase Driven Legal Descriptions	In TPC Desktop, you have complete control over how TPC writes legal descriptions by defining settings and phrases.
Phrase Driven Legal Descriptions Output	We take an in-depth look at product of TPC’s Phrase Driven Legal Description writer for all of the tangent, curve and spiral options.

CAD Import/Export

CAD Import Workflows	Walk through common workflows for importing TPC drawings to CAD.
CAD Export Workflows	Walk through common workflows for exporting TPC drawings to CAD.

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