Purchase
TPC Desktop™ comes in three Editions – Personal, Premium or Professional.
- There are no additional modules or add-ons to purchase.
- Just choose the edition that’s right for you and upgrade to another edition, anytime, by paying just the price difference.
| License / Edition | Personal | Premium | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription – Quarterly | $179.85 – Purchase | $239.85 – Purchase | $329.00 – Purchase |
| Subscription – Annual | $398.00 – Purchase | $638.00 – Purchase | $878.00 – Purchase |
| Perpetual – Single* | | |
*Includes 1 year of the TPC Connection
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Real Estate Agents/Groups | |||
| Tax Assessors / Title Companies | |||
| Land Dispute Attorneys | |||
| Landscape Mapping | |||
| Forestry / Resource Management | |||
| Accident Investigation | |||
| Archaeology Mapping | |||
| Educational Institutions | |||
| Surveying | |||
| Estate / Ranch Infrastructure Planners | |||
| Commercial Construction staking and layout | |||
| Mining | |||
| Land Developers | |||
| Civil Engineering | |||
| Public Lands Surveys (PLSS) / CFedS |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Test: Semi-major Axis of Error Ellipses | |||
| Test: Standard deviations of distances between monuments | |||
| Metric or Imperial precision (0.07′ +/- 50 PPM) | |||
| 95% Confidence Interval | |||
| ALTA 2021 Minimum Standard |
Learn More – Cadastral Surveys (PLSS)
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Ground distance and true bearings per PLSS | |||
| PLSS traverses, areas, COGO and drawings | |||
| Single and Double Proportion with detailed report | |||
| Grant and Irregular Boundary adjustments with detailed report | |||
| Offset random line to true line | |||
| Import GMM Township record files, automatically create traverse, auto-plot | |||
| Medial Lines | |||
| Cadastral videos, learning guide, sample surveys, drawing templates, blocks |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Create and manage lots | |||
| Lot closure with area | |||
| Lot labels in drawings – name, acres/hectares, square ft/meters/chains, closure information | |||
| Adjust opacity of adjacent lots in a drawing | |||
| Group lot traverses together | |||
| GIS – import / export lots as shapes | |||
| Add lot table to drawing | |||
| LandXML (Civil3D) – share lots as parcels | |||
| Compute Predetermined Areas for new Lots |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Automatically Plots All Curve Parameters in Drawings | |||
| Cul-de-sacs | |||
| Enter Any Curve Data & TPC Computes All Parameters | |||
| Stations/Equations/Offsets | |||
| Right-of-Way Offsets | |||
| Spirals / Spiral Offsets / Spiral Intersections | |||
| Multiple Points on a Grade | |||
| Float PC’s & PT’s Along Tangents Automatically | |||
| Compute Station / Offset of any Points Based on any Alignment | |||
| Horizontal Line / Curve Fitting | |||
| Vertical Curves |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Plot any traverse in profile mode using stations and elevations | |||
| Draw vertical curves | |||
| Specify vertical scale factor (10x is common) | |||
| Include grid and label stations and elevations automatically |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Plot any traverses as cross sections using stations and elevations | |||
| Draw multiple cross sections on a single sheet of paper | |||
| Use multiple traverses per cross section to show original ground, typical cross sections, etc. | |||
| Specify vertical scale factor (10x is common) | |||
| Include grid and label stations and elevations automatically |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Point Code View-List Codes & Descriptions | |||
| Build New Code Tables from Existing Data-Instantly | |||
| Update Existing Traverses with New Points & Codes | |||
| Assign Drawing Settings to Codes for Feature Mapping | |||
| Copy Drawing View Settings Between Codes | |||
| Assign Survey Point Properties | |||
| Point Code Alias | |||
| Manage Multiple Code Tables | |||
| Supports Most Data Collector Codes |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Positive & Negative Instrument Height | |||
| Positive & Negative Target Heights | |||
| Benchmarks | |||
| Protect Elevations Manually or as Entered | |||
| 3-Dimensional Drawing Objects | |||
| Move point elevations to a surface – NEW TPC Desktop 2019 R1 |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Double Meridian Distance Method | |||
| Curve and Spiral Segments Included | |||
| Grid Areas | |||
| Geodetic Areas | |||
| Included Areas in Legal Descriptions | |||
| Predetermined Area Computations – Slide or Hinge method |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Scale Only, Translate Only, Scale & Rotate, 2D/3D Conformal, Vertical Shift | |||
| Calibrate / Reverse Calibrate drawing objects like background raster images | |||
| Calibrate / Reverse Calibrate CAD entities (i.e. XRef) and files | |||
| Calibrate / Reverse Calibrate GNSS / Total Station / Record data | |||
| Site Calibration (automatically calibrate geodetic points) | |||
| Automatic re-calibrate when editing calibration parameters | |||
| Calibrate or Reverse Calibrate Imported / Exported Coordinates |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Interactive COGO Dialogs | |||
| Random Inverse | |||
| Horizontal Curves | |||
| Enter Radial Bearings for Horizontal Curves | |||
| Enter Equations for Bearing / Distance / Elevation | |||
| Shared Lot Lines-Changing One Changes the Other | |||
| Insert Points at Midpoint of Line or Curve | |||
| COGO Tools Available in All Views | |||
| Rotate / Translate / Inverse / Offset | |||
| Intersections Including Offsets / Spirals / Curves | |||
| Corner Offsets | |||
| Resection / Benchmark | |||
| Automatic Lot Setbacks – Front / Side / Rear | |||
| Multiple Points on a Line | |||
| Compute Offsets to a Line or Curve | |||
| Create a Point at a Distance & Offset | |||
| Remote Offset-Perpendicular / HA / VA / Horizontal/Vertical Distance | |||
| Best Fit Horizontal Curve (Least Squares, average radius) | |||
| Best Fit Horizontal Line (Least Squares, fixed bearing, through point) | |||
| Predetermined Area | |||
| Tangent Intersects with Offsets | |||
| Average Point |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Over 20X Faster & More Accurate | |||
| Multiple Contours Per Drawing-Stockpiles / Construction Phases / More | |||
| Create Contours for All Points / Individual Traverses / Selected Points | |||
| User-defined Contour Intervals / Colors / Line Types / Labels / Borders / Breaklines | |||
| Save / Reset User Settings | |||
| Optional Border | |||
| Fix Blunders Easily with TOPO Point Delineation | |||
| Contour Smoothing | |||
| Exclusions | |||
| Break Line Toggle | |||
| Contour Information Reports | |||
| Surface Area / Plan Area / Cut & Fill Areas | |||
| Volumes to a Border / Specific Elevation / Another Contour Surface | |||
| Computes Net Volume / Cut Volume / Fill Volume | |||
| Cut-sheet Report | |||
| Generate Transects from Traverses / Lines / Polylines | |||
| Slope Analysis | |||
| Import / Export LandXML |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Uses QuickView Technology for Fast, Accurate, Up-to-date Drawings | |||
| Include Complete Survey or Selected Traverses | |||
| Center Drawing at Maximum Scale on Any Page | |||
| Rotate Drawing on the Page-North Arrow Tracks Automatically | |||
| Set Point Symbols / Line Types / Labels / Colors-Globally / by Traverse / Individually | |||
| User-defined Hatching | |||
| Zoom Page / Extents / Window / Previous / In / Out | |||
| Pan with Drag-n-Drop | |||
| Paper Space / Survey Space Modes | |||
| Hide / Show Objects | |||
| Edit Individual Object Properties (Font / Size / Line Type / Symbol / etc.) | |||
| Cut / Copy / Paste Text to and from Other Programs | |||
| Select Multiple Objects for Edit / Delete / Hide / Show / etc. | |||
| Trim / Rotate / Resize Symbols | |||
| Ortho Mode | |||
| User-defined Line Types | |||
| Variables for File Name / Drawing Scale / Drawing Data / More | |||
| Interactive COGO Tools | |||
| Find Point Command | |||
| Repeating Commands | |||
| Create Traverses from Drawing View | |||
| White or Black Background | |||
| Delineate Traverses and/or Points (highlight in drawing) | |||
| Gap Point Type to Not Draw Line | |||
| Spell Check-Individual Objects / Selected Objects / Entire Drawing | |||
| Store / Recall Traverse / Drawing Settings by Name | |||
| Traverses from CAD Lines / Text / Points | |||
| User-defined Blocks | |||
| User-defined Grid | |||
| User-defined Symbols | |||
| User-defined Layers | |||
| Tables – Line / Curve / Lot / Point | |||
| Group drawing objects | |||
| Trim / Extend / Break / Offset / Chamfer / Fillet / Copy – manually drawn objects | |||
| Traverse Smoothing – riparian boundaries, ponds, etc. | |||
| Drawing Details – create and edit | |||
| XReference CAD Files | |||
| Turn Traverse Smoothing On / Off Within a Traverse |
Learn More – Multiple Drawings
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Display Traverse in Temporary Drawing or Share Permanent Drawing | |||
| Unlimited Number of Drawings per Survey | |||
| Duplicate / Rename Drawings |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Nested Commands | |||
| Multi-level Undo | |||
| Step-by-step Prompts | |||
| Enter Exact Values or Place with Mouse | |||
| Horizontal & Angled Text | |||
| Leaders with Choice of Arrows | |||
| Move / Edit Traverses | |||
| Text Box with Word-wrap & Resize | |||
| Curved Text, Auto-Curved Text | |||
| Outlined Fonts / Text Borders | |||
| Insert Picture Files-JPG / BMP / GIF / ICO / TIF / EMF / WMF / PNG | |||
| Dynamic Offsets | |||
| Dynamic Object Labels | |||
| Dynamic Dimensioning | |||
| Label Interior Angles | |||
| Single & Continuous Lines | |||
| Snap to Insert / Mid / End / Perpendicular / Intersection / Tangent | |||
| Snap to Nearest | |||
| Object Snap | |||
| Arcs / Circles / Rectangles | |||
| Polylines with Optional Forced Closure / Hatching & Filling | |||
| Polyline Smoothing | |||
| Rotate / Translate / Duplicate Traverses | |||
| Align / Space Text & Other Objects Evenly | |||
| Trim / Extend / Break / Copy objects / Fillet / Chamfer | |||
| Convert Drawing Objects to Survey Points | |||
| Graphic Offset Tool | |||
| Rich Text Box & Tools | |||
| XReferences | |||
| Create Drawing Detail | |||
| Drawing Codes (Begin / End Line / Close / Rectangle / Continue) |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Supports CAD Blocks & Nested Blocks | |||
| Edit / Resize / Rotate Blocks | |||
| Force a Block to a Single Color | |||
| Convert a Block to a Group | |||
| Edit Individual Group Members | |||
| Insert Objects Into a Drawing | |||
| Insert an Object Multiple Times |  | ||
| Group / Ungroup Objects | |||
| Explode Blocks | |||
| User-defined Blocks | |||
| Retrieve & Re-use Blocks from any CAD Drawing | |||
| Choose ‘Share File With Others’ to Include All Block Definitions in File | |||
| Group Last Import (CAD, GIS, etc) | |||
| Reference Group to Survey |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Automatic or User-defined Lot Labels | |||
| User-defined Font / Size / Color / Decimal Places | |||
| Acres / Hectares / Square Feet / Square Meters | |||
| Automatically Centers Lot Label & Area in Lot | |||
| Copy Lot Settings from One Lot to Another | |||
| Hide Lot Label Layer | |||
| Lot Table |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Export Layers in DXF / DWG Files | |||
| Edit Layers On / Off, Freeze / Thaw, Lock / Unlock, Notice / Ignore, Current, Rename, Add / Delete, Forward / Backward, Isolate / Restore | |||
| Isolate a Single Layer | |||
| Ignore Layers | |||
| Add & Delete User Layers | |||
| Control Object Properties by Layer | |||
| Right-click any Object to Access its Layer | |||
| Convert all Objects on a Layer to Survey Points | |||
| Background Layer |
Learn More – Pictures/Raster Images
Personal | |||
| Insert pictures into drawings: JPG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF, PNG, TIF, ICO, PNG / World Files | |||
| Overlay survey on background picture | |||
| Reference picture to survey | |||
| Resize / Stretch pictures | |||
| Crop / Flip / Mirror / Rotate pictures | |||
| Pictures Rescale with Survey (Optional) | |||
| Export Drawings as JPG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF, PNG, TIF, ICO, PNG / World Files | |||
| Include Pictures in Exported DXF / DWG Files |
Learn More – Enhanced Hatching
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Solid / Hatch Pattern / Bitmap | |||
| Predefined Patterns & Bitmaps | |||
| User-defined Hatching | |||
| Fill Entire Traverses | |||
| Clear Hatching Around Text | |||
| Associative Hatching Changes with Objects / Traverses | |||
| Fill Rectangles, Circles, Polylines, Smoothed Polylines | |||
| Append to Smart Legend |
Learn More – Drafted Line Types
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| 100+ Predefined Line Types | |||
Embedded Text –[Utility]–, Symbols  , Markers –X–X– | |||
| Patterns —- — —- — | |||
| User-defined Line types | |||
| AutoCAD Compatible Patterns |
Learn More – Drawing Templates
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Default Template | |||
| Template Resizes to any Page Size / Orientation Automatically | |||
| Save any Drawing as a Template | |||
| Edit Existing Templates | |||
| Import Template into Existing Drawing |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Preview Symbols for Selection | |||
| Organize Symbols in Folders | |||
| Dozens of Point Symbols Included | |||
| North Arrows / Borders / Title Blocks / Scale Bars Included | |||
| Traffic Symbols Included | |||
| Sample Stamps & Logo Symbols Included | |||
| Standard BLM Corner Symbols Included | |||
| User-defined Line types | |||
| User-defined Hatching | |||
| User-defined Symbols & Blocks Using DXF | |||
| Retrieve & Re-use Symbols from Any CAD Drawing |
Learn More – Smart Drawing Objects™
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Smart Borders | |||
| Smart Title Blocks | |||
| Smart Line / Point Labels | |||
| Smart Lot / Area Labels | |||
| Smart Scale Bars | |||
| Smart Legend | |||
| Smart Line / Curve / Coordinate Tables | |||
| Individual Traverse Line/Point Tables | |||
| Drawing Details – create and edit | |||
| Smart Lot Tables |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Begin Line / End Line | |||
| Begin Curve / End Curve | |||
| Begin Figure / End Figure / Close Figure | |||
| Rectangle from next 3 points | |||
| Curve from next 3 points | |||
| Rectangle from next 2 points and width | |||
| Codes in Notes | |||
| Codes in Point Descriptions |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Import / Export GNSS CSV Files | |||
| Use RTK RMS values in Least Squares | |||
| Calibrate Local Survey To/From GNSS CRS | |||
| emlid (CSV) Import / Export | |||
| Bad Elf point/track log (CSV) Import / Export | |||
| Generic GNSS (CSV) Import/Export | |||
| Match surveys to GNSS CRS |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Export Survey Points or Traverses as Shape Files | |||
| Import Shape Files as Survey Points or Traverses | |||
| Export Drawings as Shape Files | |||
| Export Point or Polyline shapes | |||
| Export Point Labels, Coordinates and Descriptions in DBF File | |||
| Writes Projections(.prj) on Export | |||
| Reads Projections(.prj) on Import | |||
| Select GIS Coordinate System on Export | |||
| Import Shape Files into Drawings | |||
| GIS Coordinate Systems (Geographic,Projected,Local) | |||
| Identifies Imported Geographic Shapes without Projection File | |||
| Calibrate Import Shapes to Survey |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Import / Export KML files | |||
| Import / Export KMZ files | |||
| Import points, traverses, surfaces, lot labels, sideshots, drawings | |||
| Export points, traverses, surfaces, lot labels, sideshots, drawings |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Import / Export LandXML files | |||
| Import / Export Points | |||
| Import / Export Parcels | |||
| Import / Export Alignments | |||
| Import / Export Vertical Curves | |||
| Import / Export Surfaces |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Blunder Detection | |||
| Solve Resections | |||
| Four Step Process (Analyze, Solve, Update, Report) | |||
| 2D or 3D Adjustments | |||
| Traverse Adjustments | |||
| Undo Adjustments | |||
| Report Positional Tolerances | |||
| Relative Positional Accuracy (RPA) | |||
| Network Adjustments | |||
| Individual Traverse A Priori Values | |||
| ALTA 2021 Minimum Standard Relative Positional Precision |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Adobe PDF Export | |||
| User-Defined ASCII Coordinates | |||
| User-Defined Raw Data Files | |||
| MS Excel CSV | |||
| MicroSurvey Field Genius | |||
| Shape Files | |||
| SDR / TDS | |||
| Direct Connection to Data Collector / Total Station / Laser | |||
| Files Transfer: Ymodem / Kermit / Text | |||
| TDS RW5, RAW, CR5, Binary CR5 | |||
| Carlson Surv CE RAW, Binary CRD | |||
| Trimble Business Center | |||
| AutoCAD R9-2018 DXF (see CAD for details) | |||
| AutoCAD R11-2018 DWG (see CAD for details) | |||
| Leica / LisCAD / Pentax | |||
| Nikon RAW V2.0 | |||
| Criterion / Impulse / Range-Range / Reverse Direction | |||
| Garmin GPS Waypoints / Routes / Tracklogs / Text / E-Trex (Serial Connections Only) | |||
| SMI Coordinates or Raw Data | |||
| Trimble 5600 Series Total Stations | |||
| Topcon GTS Series Total Stations | |||
| Thales Navigation Z-Max Raw Data | |||
| CST / Berger / Geodimeter 600 | |||
| MicroStation V7 / V8 DGN | |||
| DCA R10 – import only | |||
| Pacsoft CRD & PDT- import only | |||
| C&G CRD (Binary) & CGC (Binary)- import only | |||
| Eagle Point Nodes- import only |
Learn More – Legal Descriptions
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Convert Traverse to Legal Description | |||
| Edit Legal Description | |||
| Insert into Any Drawing | |||
| User Style Settings Include Rounding, Abbreviations, Decimals, One Course per Line, More | |||
| Spell Check All or Portion of Legal Description |
Learn More – Staking Out Points
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Specify stakeout points via point label text, point label value, point description or attribute or side shots | |||
| Stakeout Report – with cut / fill / difference/ average difference | |||
| Works with any data collector | |||
| Works with total stations / GPS / GNSS | |||
| Stakeout Report |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Edit / Print / Copy / Paste | |||
| Coordinates / Traverses / Raw Data / Raw Closure | |||
| Survey Report | |||
| COGO Reports | |||
| Insert Any Report into Any Drawing | |||
| Spell Check All or Portion of Report | |||
| Save / Recall / Edit Reports | |||
| Station / Offset | |||
| Multiple Traverses | |||
| Stakeout Report | |||
| Surface Information | |||
| Legal Description Report | |||
| Least Squares Report | |||
| Volume, Cut / Fill Report | |||
| Slope Analysis | |||
| PLSS – Public Lands Survey System |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Traverses from CAD Lines / Text / Points | |||
| Insert Traverse Command | |||
| Traverses Manager-Closure Information | |||
| Electronic Plat Checking Booklet (PDF) |
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Drawings | |||
| Reports | |||
| Legal Descriptions |
Learn More – Search/Replace/Sort/Query
Personal | Premium | Professional | |
| Find Matching Point Labels / Descriptions / Attributes | |||
| Replace Text in Labels / Descriptions / Attributes | |||
| Select Points by Proximity to a Known Point | |||
| Select All Points in a Range | |||
| Select Points by Matching Text | |||
| Select Points by Tags | |||
| Sort Points to Nearest Neighbor |
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