====================================================== TPC Desktop 2022, Version 22.0.4.0 9/10/2025 ====================================================== Welcome to TPC Desktop 2022 R0 New Features ------------ Visit https://traverse-pc.com/2022/ Traverse PC Member Area - https://traverse-pc.com/members/ This version uses new licensing - https://traverse-pc.com/v22/Hlp/html/edd_license.htm Version Compatibility --------------------- Version 22 will read any previous TPC files, all the way back to V1.0. Version 22 files are not backward compatible. Windows Versions ---------------- This Version has been tested on Windows 10, 8.1, 8. This Version has been run on Windows 7 but TPC does not recommend Windows 7. This Version is not supported on Windows XP, Vista. Additions --------- 2-8-2022 (8069) Added [x] To CRS toggle to calibrations to identify when calibrated coordinates are CRS. This insures proper conversion to geodetic positions and computations of convergence and scale factors. 5-10-2022 Compiled with latest compiler updates for Windows 11. 5-10-2022 (5554) When exporting a CAD file, TPC now displays the progress on the status bar with layer and entity counts. 5-26-2021 VisualStudio.16.Release/16.11.14+32428.217, Visual C++ 2019 00435-00000-00000-AA140 8-10-2022 (8118) TPC initiates a 30-day Grace Period if it encounters a license server error. 8-10-2022 (8374) Improved license messages displayed in License Activation dialog along with links to their help topics. 10-20-2022 New Windows Installer. 2-3-2023 Compiled with VS2022. 3-8-2023 (8710) Stakeout Report via Point Label Difference now works with point labels with embedded numbers like F1 staked out as F101. 9-6-2023 Add new Walk Through a Survey topics to Learning TPC in unified help system. 11-22-2023 (9045) Added CRS files EPSG-3857.prj and EPSG-4326.prj, the defacto standard projections used by Google Earth and ESRI. 12-12-2023 (9065) When Rich Text dialog text is copied with the Copy button, it can now be pasted elsewhere as plain text. 1-8-2025 (9350) TPC now includes more fonts that are variations of a shared font. Like Technica, Technica Lite and Technica Bold. 2-21-2025 Latest Windows 10/11 updates. 9-9-2025 Latest Winbdows 10/11 updates. Changes and Fixes ----------------- 2-3-2022 (8056) Text Objects Missing Border When Exported to CAD/DWG. Fixed 2-3-2022 (8057) Rich Text Objects Borders Positioned Incorrectly in CAD/DWG. Fixed 2-3-2022 (8058) Table Headers Missing Border When Exported to CAD/DWG. Fixed 2-3-2022 (8059) Table Contents Borders Positioned Incorrectly in CAD/DWG. Fixed 2-7-2022 (8064) Tables holding their UpperRight or LowerRight corner did not export their borders properly to CAD. Fixed. 2-7-2022 (8065) Some table names not exporting to CAD. Fixed. 2-8-2022 (8066) Table headers font, font style and line were not written to CAD files. Fixed. 3-14-2022 (8110) Reading a drawing with a polyline with only 1 vertex, caused the survey to not load. Fixed. 3-30-2022 (8102) Unable to turn Square Feet off for Lot Label in a specific drawing. Fixed. 3-30-2022 (8103) Point symbols first set to None by a traverse could not be edited after Prioritized settings were applied. Fixed. 3-30-2022 (8104) Fixed a survey line label update issue related to using multiple versions of TPC. 4-7-2022 (8127-8130) TPC now better handles very small scales like 0.01 ft/in. At these scales, your label and symbols sizes must still be large enough to draw. 4-15-2022 (8205) Unique Traverse Drawing Settings not being cloned properly when duplicating a drawing. Fixed. 5-10-2022 (8062) Some embedded contour labels export to CAD at the wrong text size. Fixed. 5-24-2022 (8255) Some detail labels did not compute their proper position if Drawing Details, Object Lebels did not have [ ] Distance or [ ] Direction turned on. Fixed. 5-25-2022 (8256) A specific CAD block in a drawing caused TPC to crash when exporting the drawing as a DWG. Fixed. 5-26-2022 (8257) User modified text heights (properties) of some line labels were being reset back to the Traverse Drawing Settings heights. Fixed. 6-9-2022 (8255) A side effect of the 5-24-22 fix caused dynamic offsets to include both distance and directon. Fixed. 6-13-2022 (8303) In the Points Manager, the Point and Attributes columns now retain their user widths created when the user drags the divider between the columns in the header line. 6-24-2022 (8305) TPC erroneously displayed Error 2540: Direct/Reverse angel set data mismatch. Fixed. 8-10-2022 (8444) TPC crashed with entering some Legal Description Style settings when running on Win11. Fixed. 8-10-2022 (8445) Legal Description styles did not store Tangency Limit. Fixed. 8-19-22 (8458) TPC not remembering all Program Data folders. Fixed 9-8-2022 (8464) Program settings not remembering maximum number of survey file backups. Fixed. 9-23-2022 (8469) Elevations incorrectly accumulating on certain combination of geodetic distance type and geoid modeling. Fixed. 12-7-2022 (8541) When appending a lot label to a table, TPC crashes if a lot table doesn't already exist. Fixed. 12-29-2022 (8584) Issue with TPC's .dat files not opening with latest Windows updates to 10 and 11. Fixed. 1-4-2023 (8604) Some traverse drawing settings from old (i.e. v8.0) TPC files were not being read properly. Fixed. 2-2-2023 (8651) Update to write to UserQvSettings.dat. Fixed. 2-8-2023 (8668) Zoom extents not working first time for a particular combination of groups with circle members. Fixed. 2-28-2023 (8699) When plotting separate profiles or cross sections on a page, TPC did not properly label the y-axis of each profile or cross section. Fixed. 3-1-23 (8698) A new install could leave CRS filename blank when it should default to Local.crs. Fixed. 3-7-2023 (8702) Some ASCII files did not import Attributes (A) properly. Fixed. 4-1-2023 (8672) Side effect from bug fix 8698. CRS not reading properly from some older TRV files. Fixed. 4-21-2023 (8773) Copy/Paste text between drawings caused a crash. Fixed. 5-1-2023 (8790) Automatic offset did not work for curve-curve when compared azimuths were different by 0.000000001 radians. Fixed. 5-18-2023 (8812) TpcAsciiFormat.dat (users saved ASCII import/export settings) file not always being read when it should. Fixed. 5-23-2023 (8821) CAD View Layers dialog not retaining user settings when closed/opened. Fixed. 5-23-2023 (8815) Dynamic Offsets did not always properly calibrate their end point. Fixed. 5-24-2023 (8774) Crash if Window Extents commanded is ended without selecting a window. Fixed. 5-30-2023 (8833) Importing an certain RW5 with incomplete data for the last point caused a crash when [x] Protect Imported Positions was turned on. 5-31-2023 (8827) When calibrating a drawing on export to a shape file, some objects were not being calibrated. Fixed. 5-31-2023 (8837) Reverse calibrating drawing objects didn't work when multiple objects were selected. Fixed. 6-6-2023 (8845) Control Polyline Settings not updating when they are selected for multiple traverses with no other Control Point Settings selected. Fixed. 6-19-2023 (8853) TPC couldn't importing DWG if Rich Text entities had text height of 0.0. Fixed. 6-30-2023 (8857) TPC not remembering Geoid selected on files created prior to TPC V20. Fixed. 7-7-2023 (8858) Clear background did not work for some Rich Text boxes. Fixed. 7-10-2023 (8891) When changing a table with 1 item to 3 columns, TPC crashed. Fixed. 7-12-2023 (8892) Some surveys not retaining modified CRS ellipse when saved and opened. Fixed. 7-10-2023 (8893) Tools, Transform Coordinates dialog did not always show the survey's CRS when opened. Fixed. 7-13-2023 (8525) Some Rich Text Boxes did not clip properly. Fixed. 7-24-2023 (8918) Tables drawing only first user column when multiple columns were entered. Fixed. 8-2-2023 (8928) TPC crashed when some \\server\ LAN network paths were used for Program Data and Survey Files. Fixed. 9-1-2023 (8972) ROW offset not computed properly for specific combination of tangent, curve and large coordinates. Fixed. 11-1-2023 (9018) Crash copying drawing text to survey information. Fixed. 11-9-2023 (9031) The Oregon Stamp block now inserts at 2" wide per OAR 820-025-0005. 11-30-2023 (9046) When editing point descriptions in the Points manager, the location of the item being edited would jump to the bottom on the view. Fixed. 12-12-2023 (9065) Copy and Paste did not work within the same text dialog. Fixed. 1-5-2024 (9079) Rich Text objects didn't write to their layer when exported to CAD. Fixed. 1-17-2024 (9087) Increase registry capacity for program settings. 1-29-2024 (9097) When opening a survey file, point attributes from a previous point could be copied into a point that didn't have attributes. Fixed. 2-5-2024 (9107) Write default point symbol to Google Earth KML/KMZ if a symbol can't be accessed via the internet. 5-6-2024 (9165) In the Offset to Line dialog, the distance from the start of line was dependent on the [ ] Latitude Arc, even if the distance type was not geodetic. When that option was turned off, it displayed grid distance. For non-geodetic distance types, it now always displays this distance based on the distance type selected in the dialog. 5-8-2024 (9167) Some blocks with arcs did not draw properly in a legend when coordinates exceeded 5M. Fixed. 5-16-2024 (9176) Point symbols in shared surveys had no drawing objects in them. Fixed. 5-20-2024 (9169) Traverse Control Polylines don't apply opacity. Fixed. 5-20-2024 (8476) Drawings not retaining Page Setup page sizes that aren't predefined in Windows. Fixed. 5-24-2024 (9186) Blocks shared in a survey file were not reading all their properties. Fixed. 8-28-2024 (9235) The R2 drawing command was not picking up the following distance. Fixed. 8-28-2024 (9236) When exporting to CAD, arcs always exported 3D, even if [ ] 3D Lines was turned off in export settings. Fixed. 11-20-2024 (9281) The trim and extend commands were not working for some object combinations. Fixed. 2-4-2025 (9382) Converting a polyline to survey could flip the radii of existing survey lines from CW to CCW and visa versa for certain sequences. Fixed. 2-14-2025 (9418) ROW Offset did not always compute properly for two non-tangent curves when they are both CW or both CCW in the direction of the traverse. Fixed. 2-28-2025 (9464) A survey was unable to change it's Curve Definition from Chord back to Arc. Fixed. 5-21-2025 (9525) Random Inverse dialog was missing some computed values. Fixed.