TPC Desktop Introduction 17
Introducing Smart Drawing Objects™
Smart Drawing Objects help you produce drawings quickly and maintain them effortlessly. TPC
Desktop includes dozens of Smart Drawing Objects. Here are two examples.
Smart Legends
By default, the legend adds symbols automatically as they are
used in the drawing. In the drawing shown here, we changed
the SW lot corner to the
Monument In Case
symbol, so Quick
View™ added it to the legend. Plus the legend is anchored to
the nearest corner of the drawing so as items are added it
grows
away from that corner automatically
– you don’t even
have to reposition it.
Smart Pictures
Once you have calibrated a picture you can rescale the drawing
or drag-n-drop the survey anywhere on the page, and the
picture and survey retain the proper reference to each other.
That’s because they are smart.
One of the neat things about Survey Space is that ALL Survey
Space objects are based on the same coordinate grid and the
same scale
– even pictures.