LotPlot - Feature List
Land Surveying Features
- Plot maps from deeds, plats, surveys, abstracts, legal descriptions, field notes, and data collector files
- Automatic Deed Reader - Automatically draw a deed from a text file or from Microsoft Word
- Automatically create legal descriptions from a drawing. (phrases are configurable)
- Traverse, curve traverse, inverse, sideshot
- Check lot area and closure
- Balance angles and apply compass rule adjustment
- Calculate slope reduction and elevation by zenith angle
- Predetermined areas, hinge and trapezoid methods
- Compare lots to see if they overlap and calc area of the overlap
- Radial Stakeout
- Horizontal curve stakeout
- Vertical curve stakeout
- Set and inverse points by station-offset along a line, arc, or tract line (polyline)
- Bearing-bearing, bearing-distance, distance-distance intersections
- Offset intersections
- Offsets to a centerline
- Calculate curves by centerline and radius; or tangent or degree of curve (both arc and chord methods)
- Three point resections
- Three point curve
- Rotate / Translate cogo points
- Place curve and line tables in the drawing
- Supports U.S. Survey feet, International feet, Feet & inches, Meters, Chains, Poles, Rods, Varas and more.
- Enter GPS coordinates
COGO Features
- Alphanumeric point names, up to 16 characters long
- Descriptions up to 64 characters long
- Bearing recall between two cogo points
- Distance recall between two cogo points
- Inverse points using point ranges
- Inverse points using Point Group Files (completely compatible with ProCogo group files)
- Enter bearings, azimuths, or angles at anytime
- Angles and distances can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided during entry
- Point protection offers options to Replace, rename, or find next available point name
- COGO window contains a readout of your COGO computations as you work.
- COGO computations can be scrolled back for review at any time (up to 2000 lines).
- COGO readout can be manually edited, printed, and copied and pasted into other programs such as a word processor.
- Description prompting can be toggled on or off as desired
Data Collection
- Import and process TDS *.rw5 and *.raw field files
- Import ProCogo field files*
- Manually enter field data into the field data editor.
- Field data is displayed in a spreadsheet for easy editing
- Balance angles and adjust coordinates using Compass Rule adjustment
View Options
- Angular output is configurable to show bearings, azimuth, angle right and angle left
- User definable decimal places for distances, coordinates, elevations and angles
- Text and graphics are stored between sessions
* Some additional editing may be required for traverse setup and closure.
CAD Features
- Over 30 linetypes to choose from, including custom text linetyupes.
- Group and ungroup objects as needed.
- Create custom, reusable symbols with the Block features
- Insert and trace images including aerials or TOPO maps
- Draw roads and cul-de-sacs
- Draw easements and setback lines
- User configurable scaled hatching
- Select object by mouse click, a window, or select items from a list.
- Specify text sizes in points. Text is always printed at the size you specify regardless of the plot scale that you are using.
- Zoom and pan command including support for wheel mice.
- Layers
- Up to 256 layers
- Rename layers as desired
- Change color, hide and lock layers
- Supports up to 256 colors
- Display point names, elevations, and descriptions
- Draw lines and arcs
- Plot graphics to scale on most Windows compatible printers
- Print drawing with border, title block and north arrow
Import-Export
- Import and export COGO points from standard ASCII files.
- Import linework from shapefiles.
- Import and export graphic data to DXF files.
- Export graphics linework to a shapefile.
- Export graphics linework to Google Earth.
RPN & Curve Calculator
- Reverse polish notation
- General trig and power functions
- hms+ and hms-
- HMS mode allows trig functions to work on hms angles without having to convert to decimal degrees
- Calculator understands distance and area units such as feet, meters, square feet, acres, hectares, etc.
- Curve calculator calculates delta, radius, arc length, chord length, tangent, mid-ordinate, external, degree of curve (both arc and chord) and curve area
- Calculator can be launched from within ProCogo
- Calculator can be used with most other Windows programs
- Calculator can be made to "stay on top" for easy access.
User Features
- Hotkeys for commonly used commands
- Nearly 60 text commands
- All text commands can be customized by the user