TPC Desktop Introduction 5
Introducing TPC Technologies
In this booklet, we introduce you to some exciting technology available only in TPC Desktop.
These technologies help make surveying fun again by taking care of the busy work for you. You’ll
learn more about each of the technologies in the pages that follow.
TPC Desktop™
You do everything right from the
TPC Desktop
™
. Just open the View
you want and there’s all
your data and the tools to work with it. Once you learn how the TPC Desktop works, you’ll do your
work more efficiently and have a lot more fun doing it.
Obvious Navigation™
TPC Desktop makes it easy to access the data you want when you want it. Yet it gives you
complete freedom to organize it all the way you want. Extend the TPC Desktop onto multiple
monitors or squeeze it down to your notebook computer. No matter how you lay it out, you can
always get around efficiently with our
Obvious Navigation
™
.
Quick View™
Select the traverses, points and surfaces you want to include in a drawing and tell TPC how you
want to draw them and our
Quick View
™
technology draws it for you. And go ahead, fix the
mistake you made when you calculated a point or entered a bearing. The drawing updates
automatically because it’s based on the data.
Smart Drawing Objects™
Take the busy work out of drafting with our smart drawing objects. Rotate your drawing on the
page and the north arrow rotates automatically. Or reference a background photo to your survey
then change drawing scale and the photo rescales too. You’ll find dozens of these
Smart
Drawing Objects
™
that know just what you want them to do.
Un
iversal Map Sharing™
You can share your drawings with anyone because TPC supports both vector and raster drawing
formats like PDF, DWG, DXF, DGN, Shape, PGN, EMF/WMF, GIF, TIF & JPG.
What? List™
For lack of a better definition, we call it the
What? list
™
. When you perform a data or COGO
operation, you always know what data you’re working with because the
What? list
™
tells you.
Sounds simple -
and it is. That’s the whole point.