10 TPC Desktop Introduction
Introducing Traverses
A survey isn’t just data, drawings, COGO, or any ONE thing. It’s the combination of record data,
field data, intersections, curves, stations, offsets, control points, side shots, closing points, areas,
corner notes, cut sheets, legal descriptions, contours, geodetic positions, setbacks and more. The
list goes on.
So how do you keep track of something as complex as a whole survey? Traverses!
A Traverse is any group of points that belong together. A Traverse can define a lot boundary or a
feature line on a map or a group of points you want to download to your data collector. Traverses
can be rotated and translated, copied and duplicated, turned on or off in a drawing, adjusted, and
manipulated in all other kinds of ways.
Best of all, Traverses can share data. Update a point in one Traverse and it updates everywhere.
Once you start working with Traverses in your survey you’ll wonder how you ever lived without
them.
Traverse Rules
A survey can have as few or as many Traverses as you want. If you are working with a
subdivision, you will probably have a traverse for each lot in the subdivision. If you are staking out
points on a construction project, you might have a Traverse for each building and one for
miscellaneous points.
Keep in mind that you can always create additional traverses by recalling points from the survey.
If you want to do something with selected points, just recall those points into a traverse and do it
–at any time.
Some things you should know about Traverses
A survey can have any number of Traverses.
A Traverse can have any number of points.
When a new point is entered in a Traverse it becomes part of the survey.
Any Traverse can access (recall and change) any point in the survey.
If a point is changed in one Traverse, that change is reflected in every other Traverse that
shares that point.
Traverses can be easily created from most of the views.
Traverse Drawing Settings
Traverse Drawing Settings make drafting fast, flexible and fun in TPC. Use the Traverse Drawing
Settings to choose the point symbol, line type, color, point labels, line labels and other settings
you want to use for a traverse and TPC creates the drawing for you. You can store Traverse
Drawing Settings for re-use by giving them a unique name like Property Line or Topo Shots.
