Pythagoras Features include: 
   
   
  		• Built-in CAD engine (no AutoCad needed)
       

  • Fully 3D: all points have 3 coordinates
    All common coordinate systems are supported: NEZ, XYZ, YXZ
       
  		• Intelligent cursor: automatically snaps to objects
       
  		• Intelligent menus: options that are not relevant are not available
       
  		• Context-specific (or context-sensitive) control panel: shows coordinates, length, bearing, etc.
       
  		• Search routine: object selection by point, layer, color, description, and many more
       
  		• Undo and redo
       
  		• Mirror over N and/or E axis
       
  		• Move, rotate, duplicate objects
       
  		• Group objects
       
  		• Display level: show objects on top of one another
       
  		• Renumber points
       
  		• Adjust elevation of points either to absolute value or a relative value.
       
  		• Import from many different data collectors
       
  		• Export to many different data collectors
       
  		• File formats supported: Pythagoras, DWG, DXF, SHP (SHAPE), ASCII
       
  		• Full Cogo capability
       
  		• User-defined coordinate systems
       
  		• Coordinate transformation to any coordinate system based on more than 2 known points. Calculates the error for each point. Exclude "large-error" points from the transformation calculation.
       
  		• Scale any drawing, including text!
       
  		• Create your own point symbols, rotatable or not
       
  		• Create your own line styles
       
  		• Create your own hatch patterns
       
  		• Automatic drafting from field coding: Specify your own codes, separate data into layers
       
  		• Set user defaults for points, lines, texts: color, layer, etc.
       
  		• Make objects transparent
       
  		• Intersection
       
  		• Resection
       
  		• Best fit of line, arc, circle
       
  		• Copy and paste objects between drawings or into other applications (such as MS Word)
       
  		• Image management: import, view, design and plot raster images: scale images, suppress visibility of images outside a specific scale, heads-up digitizing
       
  		• Import: metes and bounds descriptions, traverse adjustment
       
  		• Reports: coordinate list, stakeout reports or direct upload into data collectors
       
  		• Printing and plotting: support for all MS-Windows (or Macintosh) printers and plotters, support for plotting line widths in color map.
       

  • Preference settings: distance in meters, feet, US feet, angles in surveyor angles, gon, rad, and many more, precision display setting for values.

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    		Pythagoras Digital Terrain Modeling Features include: 
       
       
  		• Use simple elevation points and breaklines to calculate DTMs (TIN)
       
  		• Multiple DTMs per drawing (up to 32)
       
  		• Contouring
       
  		• Accurate Volume Calculations (Cut and Fill): calculate volume between 2 DTMs or surfaces, or between a DTM and a specific elevation
       
  		• Create cross sections
       
  		• 3D viewing
       

  • Slope intercept calculations

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    		Pythagoras Road Design Features include: 
       
       
  		• Vertical curve calculations and plotting
       
  		• Volume calculations (Cut and Fill)
       
  		• Cross sections are instantly constructed on the fly and can be viewed anywhere along the centerline.
       
  		• Center lines can include straight lines, curves, spiral curves (clothoids), ...
       
  		• Plot detailed cross sections
       
  		• Plot detailed profile drawings
       
  		• Topsoil cut and fill calculations
       
  		• Daylighting
       

  • Mass haul analysis

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