Features List

Pythagoras Features
Pythagoras Digital Terrain Modeling Features
Pythagoras Road Design Features

Pythagoras Features include:

Built-in CAD engine – standalone product
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
Compatible with Google Earth
Coordinate reference systems
Customizable toolbars
Table viewer
Elaborate reporting functions
Management of system libraries

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Pythagoras Digital Terrain Modeling Features include:

Use simple elevation points and breaklines to calculate DTMs (TIN)
Multiple DTMs per drawing
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
DTM editing tools
Copy/paste DTM to other drawings
Compatible with Google SketchUp

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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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