
TPC Desktop Introduction 7
Managing a Survey
You can think of the TPC Desktop as helping manage your survey. Everything you do here is part
of the current survey or job you are working on. Whether adding a new drawing, editing a surface,
importing field data, or writing a legal description, it’s all part of the current survey.
TPC uses the term
survey
to refer to a survey job. Surveys consist of
traverses
,
points,
drawings,
surfaces, reports, adjustments and files
. TPC Desktop works with one survey at a time. Open the
survey you want or start a new one, add traverses and points, compute some coordinates, create
a drawing or report then save the changes you’ve made back to the survey file. The next time you
open the survey you can pick up right where you left off.
TPC Desktop Menu and Toolbars
The desktop menu and toolbars (located at the top of the desktop) perform survey operations.
This is where you will save the survey you are working on, import and export data, do coordinate
conversions or adjust a network using Least Squares.
Survey Information
When you create a survey, you can enter information
about the client, job, location and your own survey
company. The Tasks manager displays this
information, helping you identify this survey when you
open it in the future. This is a great way to make sure
you have the correct survey.
This same information can also be included as
variables in your drawing templates. The variable
gets the information from the survey and displays it in
the drawing automatically for you. You never have to
add a job number or filename to a drawing again.
Program Settings
Choose
Tools
|
Program
Settings
to customize the
way TPC Desktop looks and works. Press [F1] on
any tab to learn what a particular setting does.
Think of these as general settings. You’ll find more
specific settings in the individual views themselves.