General
- Split screen with calculation on the left and graphics on the right
- Menu commands, toolbars, hotkeys, and customizable text commands
- Undo/redo
- Cut/Copy/Paste linework and drawing objects
- Optional dark mode to reduce eye strain
- Automatic backup file
- Available in single user or network configurations
COGO - Coordinate Geometry
- COGO calculations are shown on left side of screen
- Retain and review last 2000 lines of calculations, scroll back at anytime
- Cut/copy/paste, edit, and print text window
- Lock text window to avoid accidental edits
- Select points by point number or pick them from the screen. Also use COGO points with CAD routines
- Instrument setup by points or mouse pick
- Traverse, curve traverse, sideshot
- Inverse, area, closure
- Capture raw data
- Capture traverse, sideshot to a field file.
- Review, edit, recalculate the field file
- Elevation and slope reduction
- None (2D)
- Slope distance / zenith angle
- Slope distance / vertical angle
- Horz. distance / direct elevation
- Radial stakeout
- Optional search radius
- Optional text filter
- By point name, range or group file
- Circular curve stakeout
- Vertical curve stakeout
- Station/Offset, set & inverse
- Along a line or arc by points
- Along a baseline (like a centerline)
- Set or inverse by point names
- Set or inverse by mouse pick
- Calculate curves by...
- Centerline and radius
- Centerline and tangent
- Centerline and D.O.C. (arc)
- Centerline and D.O.C. (chord)
- Intersections
- Bearing-bearing
- Bearing-distance
- Distance-distance
- Offset intersection (by points, or from intersecting lines and arcs)
- Three point resection
- Three point curve
- Best fit line and curve
- Rotate/translate
- Using points only
- Both points and linework
- Points adjustment (to adjust traverse points that have already been calculated)
- Set points
- Manually enter coordinates
- Pick location in drawing
- Pick location on a surface
- Set point relative to another point
- Create points from linework
- Points management
- Enter/Edit points
- Raise or lower points
- List points (used, unused, all)
- Compare points
- Select points by description
- Select all points
- Points manager (spreadsheet)
- Delete points
- Show or hide all points
- Predetermined areas
- Sliding, swinging and radial side
- All routines work on parcels with unlimited legs and parcels containing arcs
COGO Points
- Alpha-numeric point names
- 16 character point name
- 64 character point description
- 12 different point symbols
- Point label options
- Point name
- Northing, Easting
- Elevation
- Description
- Auto-scaling point labels (labels can stay the same size regardless of zoom level)
- Prompt for descriptions on or off
- Specify separate layer for new COGO points
- Set default point properties
- Point protection
- Replace, rename, use next, or off
- Shows bearing, dist and a visual plot to the conflicting point including range rings for close conflicts for quick visual review
- Show all points
- Hide all points (they reappear as you use them)
- Points can be called by name or picked from the drawing with the mouse
- Points can be used in CAD routines, for example, you can draw a line by point name from point 10 to point 11
- Automate inverse, radial inverse, point listing, legal description, and exports with point group files
Input Reduction
- Import and process raw data files (TDS *.rw5 and *.raw file formats)
- Convert feature codes into symbols and COGO points
- Review and edit raw data in spreadsheet layout
- Balance and adjust traverse (compass rule)
DTM / Contours (Optional)
- Fast TIN generation (50,000 points in 10 seconds)
- Break-line support
- Major and minor contour intervals
- Easy contour labeling
- Adjustable contour smoothing
- Raise or lower a surface
Units
- U.S. Survey Feet
- International feet
- Feet & inches
- Meters
- Chains & links
- Poles
- Rods
- Links
- Varas
- Varas (Texas)
- Switch between units at almost any time
ProCalc - RPN and Curve Calculator
- RPN - Reverse Polish Notation
- General trig and power functions
- Hms+ and Hms-
- HMS mode allows trig functions to work without having to convert to decimal degrees or radians
- Calculator understands distance and area units such as feet, meters, square feet, acres, hectares, etc. For example, multiply 5 feet times 5 feet, the calculator will return 25 square feet.
- Curve calculator calculates delta, radius, arc length, chord length, tangent, mid-ordinate, external, degree of curve (both arc and chord) and curve area
- Can be made to "stay on top" for easy access
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CAD / Graphics
- Line, arc, tract (polyline), point, block (symbol), text, multi-text and arc-text entities
- Over 30 linetypes
- Insert images for background or tracing
- Mouse picks automatically snap to nearest COGO point, endpoint, intersection or object (can be turned off)
- Additional precision snaps
- Snap to midpoint of line or arc
- Snap to center of an arc
- Snap perpendicular to line or arc
- Snap tangent to an arc
- Snap direction parallel to an existing line
- Enter locations by latitude/longitude
- Move Endpoint command
- Drag endpoint of line or arc to a new position
- When dragging an arc, the radius of the arc can be preserved
- Move, copy (with repeat), rotate, scale, edit, change, and delete commands
- Nudge command to "bump" objects into position with arrow keys
- Group & un-group objects
- Break, trim, extend, and trim to intersection
- Fillet, offset, and offset tract
- Layers
- 256 layers
- Layers can be renamed
- Assign colors by layer
- Hide objects on a layer
- Lock a layer to prevent accidentally moving objects on it
- Create your own set of default layer names and colors for new drawings
Blocks (Symbols)
- Blocks are symbols that you can create, modify, and share with others
- Create your own custom blocks
- Include custom data fields such as type, size, PLS# or whatever else you need
- Map blocks to feature codes to automatically insert blocks from field files or imported ASCII files
- Modify a block, all blocks in the drawing automatically update as well
- Import and export custom blocks between other drawings
- Share blocks with all users on your network
- Includes over 40 blocks ready for you to use or modify
- ProCogo's blocks are compatible with AutoCAD blocks.
Annotations
- Automatic bearing/distance on lines
- Bearing/distance automatically updates if line changes direction or length
- Custom bearing/distance placement (both above the line, both below, bearing only, distance only, etc.)
- Drag bearing or distance to new location
- Automatic area for tract objects
- Area is automatically recalculated if tract changes
- Annotate curves with the Arc Text command
- Automatic curve and line tables that can be placed in the drawing
- Draw bar scales
Design Tools
- Automatically subdivide a parcel into two or more equal parts
- Automatically subdivide a parcel into smaller lots of a specified area, remaining area is placed in last lot
- Subdivide a parcel by drawing a dividing line with the mouse (including using precision snap modes)
- Use the Site Calculator to determine how many lots,
- Draw precision lines and arcs with snap modes (midpoint, center, perpendicular, tangent, parallel)
- Divide a line or arc into smaller equal parts
- Automatically create cul-de-sacs
- Automatically create parking spaces
Automatic Deed-Reader
- Automatically plot deeds and legal descriptions Click for video
- Import the deed from a text file, or copy and paste it from a word processor
- Review and edit deed calls before plotting
- Ambiguous or misunderstood deed calls are flagged for your review and editing, along with details about the issue and tips for resolution
Legal-Aid Deed-Writer
- ProCogo XL includes our Legal-Aid legal description writer.
- Automatically create legal descriptions from a parcel in the drawing, or a group file
- Customize phrases to your own writing style
- Create up to 10 different sets of custom phrases, switch between them at any time
- Includes built-in word processor with spell-checker
- Save to Word compatible *.rtf file, or copy and paste into another application.
- Note that this version of Legal-Aid only works with ProCogo XL (AutoCAD versions of Legal-Aid are sold separately)
Import / Export
- Import COGO points from ASCII, DXF files, and Legacy ProCogo files
- Import another ProCogo XL drawing into the current one, for instance, import the drawing of an adjoining lot into the current drawing
- Import linework from shapefiles
- Export to Google Earth via a KML file
- Export to a shapefile
- Export drawing to a bitmap image file (then load the image into a word processor perhaps)
- Export to a legacy ProCogo 2005 cogo file (cogo points only)
- ASCII import / export
- Supports a wide range of file formats
- Review data before importing to verify that the format is set up correctly
- Option to read point descriptions and match them to block names to automatically insert symbols at point locations
- DXF Import
- Import a DXF file as linework
- Import a DXF file as COGO points only (called "point extraction", points are created at line/arc endpoints, insertion points, from text etc.)
- DXF Export
- Export drawing to a DXF file
- Export entire drawing, or just selected objects
- Export points by point name or range of points
- Export points as point blocks
- Export points as 2D or 3D
- Ability to place point labels such as name, elevation, description on separate layers
- Ability to override point label text sizes and rotation with your own values
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