Pythagoras is one-stop-shopping for the land surveyor and civil engineer. Any feature you need is built-into this complete standalone application. No need to go shopping for additional plug-ins. It's all there: support for data collectors, field coding, drawing tools, Cogo, custom symbols and line types, image management, Contouring, volume calculations, Road Design.
All You'll Ever Need
- From Field To Finish
- Powerful Integrated Drawing and Calculation Tools
- Custom Symbols, Line Types, Hatch Patterns
- Image management
- Digital Terrain Modeling, Contouring, Volume Calculations
- Road Design
- Exporting / Saving Formats
- Reporting
- GIS and Database Functionalities
From Field to Finish
Pythagoras reads in ascii files and/or data from just about any data collector, total station and GPS. Pythagoras can even draw parts of your job for you. If you incorporate field commands as you collect data, Pythagoras can automatically draw symbols, lines, curves and more. Real time connection between total station or GPS and Pythagoras allows you to do measurements and in-the-field finishing of your drawing. Pythagoras can automatically separate data into layers and colors, helping you organize your job quickly. And yes, Pythagoras can do traverse adjustments for raw field data. Pythagoras makes stakeout very simple: create complete stakeout reports or data files that can be downloaded to your data collector, using only a few mouse clicks.
Powerful Integrated Drawing and Calculation Tools
Pythagoras contains all the drawing and calculation tools a surveyor or civil engineer would ever need. But more importantly, it works and thinks like a surveyor and engineer, making it very intuitive and easy to use and learn. Object snapping and context-specific input fields provide a consistent user interface for all geometric construction functions. The control panel instantly pops up any information you need when you simply move the cursor over an object. Switch between English and metric dimensions. Use different national coordinate systems and thanks to 7 parameter transformation it’s possible to correctly switch between your national coordinate system and the global one (WGS84 or UTM). Use the built-in transformation function (2 points, Helmert and affine transformation) to project data between any coordinate system, using two or more known points.
Custom symbols, line types, hatch patterns
Create your own mapping symbols, line types and hatch patterns. Pythagoras handles the most simple and the most complex symbols with the same ease. Symbols, line types and hatch pattern can be made in paper dimensions, if needed. The printed size will remain unchanged whenever you change the scale of your drawing. Line types can also be used for circular curves, circles and polylines.
Image Management
Pythagoras allows you to import, view, scale and plot raster images (pictures). Use any raster image from photogrammetric imagery to USGS Quads, satellite images, photos captured with a digital camera or scanned drawings. Raster images provide an ideal backdrop for mapping, design and land planning and results in more powerful presentations that make your projects easier to understand and help you get your projects approved faster. Raster images can also be used to perform heads-up digitizing.
Digital Terrain Modeling, Contouring, Volume Calculations
Pythagoras creates a surface by forming a triangulated irregular network (TIN) or digital terrain model (DTM) from 3D data points and/or break lines and curves. And Pythagoras calculates extremely fast. A TIN made up of tens of thousands of data points, can be calculated in a matter of seconds. Once you have created the DTM, you can have Pythagoras instantly draw contour lines, cut cross-sections, calculate slope intercepts or calculate ground volumes. Pythagoras can easily calculate accurate volumes between two DTM surfaces or from a DTM to a known elevation. Or verify the accuracy visually, by having Pythagoras create a birds-eye (3D) view of your project from any angle or perspective. Shape the DTM to your own taste with the upgraded DTM tools. Delete parts of the DTM and change the position of vertexes until the wanted result is obtained. Easy copying of the active model allows you to use the DTM in any other drawing.
Road Design
Use the Pythagoras Road Design module to design roads, streets or multi-lane highways. Cross-sections are instantly constructed on the fly and can be viewed anywhere along the alignment. Cross- sections and earthwork volumes are updated automatically every time the alignment, templates, or the DTM surface is changed. This allows you to generate complete reports including cut and fill volumes, profiles and cross sections, and perform sophisticated mass haul analyses, saving you hours of tedious work.
Exporting / Saving Formats
Exporting or saving to DWG 2010, DXF and Shape makes Pythagoras compatible with most of other CAD and/or GIS products. You will no longer have compatibility problems. The DWG format (up to version 2010) will keep all objects when opened in AutoCAD. Images, viewports and layouts, all will be included.
Reporting
A very advanced reporting system will make it able to show and export reports on all sorts of items. Object lists, polygon lists, coordinate lists and database content can be saved in different formats (RTF, HTML, CSV and TXT). Tables made in MS Word can be pasted in the rich text editor with preservation of widths, fonts, font size and color. Overviews of used materials, GIS reports,… are only some of the possibilities. In one word, the ultimate tool for all your reports.
GIS and Database Functionalities
The database view system makes it possible to combine database content in a view, which provides you with a tool to filter any kind of information out of your database enhanced drawing. The GIS and database functionalities, combined with the extreme CAD capabilities, make Pythagoras to a powerful assistant for all your GIS and database needs.
