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TPCвЂ™s Quick View technology has gotten better with each release, and TPC Desktop 2014 is no exception. Of course, you can also save your desktop layouts and switch between your favorites. YouвЂ™ll actually enjoy arranging the TPC Desktop the way you want. On a desktop computer with multiple monitors, docking and tabbing views will give you maximum access to your survey data. If you are working on a notebook with limited screen space, auto-hiding views will maximize your work space. These are best-practice conventions that TPC has selected because they work.

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These are not user-interface gadgets that come with one version of Windows and leave with the next. TPC Desktop 2014 extends the TPC Desktop with conventions such as docking, autohide, tabs, and embedded menus to help you work more efficiently with views. TPC DesktopД®verything you do in TPC is done inside the TPC Desktop. Now you can work in the office, in the field, or at home and easily access the surveys you want. My Surveys takes you to your primary survey location and, with the Shared Surveys folder, takes you to a secondary location like a file server or VPN. It lists the most recent surveys, displays information about the current survey, and provides links to help topics, learning guides, and online videos. The Tasks Manager ( Figure 2 ) is like Grand Central Station. The functionality of groups makes it very easy to organize complex surveys. The Traverses Manager shown in Figure 1 displays the traverse groups for GPS and Imported. Managers use a Windows feature called Groups. Open the Drawings Manager, select a drawing to work on, duplicate an existing drawing, or add a new one. It lists all the drawings in the survey (you can have as many as you want).

These are views you use to manage parts of your survey that come in multiples. Now you can stay focused on the view you are working with even though you may have many views open. Views can even have their own status bars. If you are working with multiple monitors and place a view in the second monitor, you donвЂ™t have to switch back to the first monitor to find a tool.

TPC Desktop 2014 places all the menus and toolbars for a view right in the view itself.

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The software provides the tools that help you make the decisions you have to make on every survey. This makes TPC fun and easy to use while being powerful and intuitive. It is fundamentally different from CAD, where you manage everything through a drawing. This is absolutely the most efficient way to work with surveys. ItвЂ™s built around views that expose different parts of your survey, such as points, surfaces, and drawings. It isnвЂ™t overwhelming like other programs can seem. What you notice first about TPC is what it isnвЂ™t. IвЂ™ll talk about these and other features in this review. They added an exciting feature: the ability to integrate geodetic measurements from GPS-derived data to grid/ground/project measurements, and they addressed the cadastral methodology to integrate GLO/BLM plats and measurements. Traverse PCвЂ™s latest release, TPC Desktop 2014, has extended the core technologies that they call the Smart Survey System. I also work with aerial photos, and bringing in images is very manageable. Everything I need in the drawing side of the program works well, also. Curves, right-of-way, least squares adjustments, GPS interface (including lat/lon, elevations, etc.) are all helpful. I rely entirely upon TPC to do my survey work and to prepare all my deliverables, such as drawings and reports.Д¬OGO, Closure, Adjustments Drawings, and File Sharing are all here. I stopped using other programs for the same reasons so many other surveyors have. IвЂ™ve used it in my work as both a private surveyor and as a county surveyor in Idaho.

I have been using Traverse PC (TPC) since its inception in 1987.

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This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series February 2014

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