A workshop of its own for point files

Until now, converting point files happened in a window laid over the drawing screen. The toolbar for surface, triangles and contours stayed around it, and that has nothing to do with points. There is now a screen of its own.

What you see

• On the left the table: search by name or code, filter per code, tick what goes out, correct a value with a double click.
• In the middle the map: your points with their names, a colour per code with a legend, the aerial photo underneath, a box to select with, and a measuring tool for distance and bearing.
• On the right the panel: from which system to which system, the transformations, the fit, and the output with a live preview of the file that will come out.

Point out the columns yourself

The program guesses the columns as it always did — that recognition was honed on fifty real files. But now you see what it guessed, in a table with your own lines in it, and you correct what is wrong with a single choice. That is exactly where a point list goes wrong: a point number read as an easting, north and east swapped, a height column that turns out to be empty.

Fit to known points

If you measure in a local system, give the known coordinates of a few points. The program finds the shift, rotation and scale that fit best, and shows the residual per point. So you see straight away that a control point was mistyped — precisely the case where everything looks right and the whole site is still displaced.

Output

CSV, text, DXF, LandXML and Leica GSI as before, and new: Sokkia SDR and Carlson RW5. The program could only read those two; now it writes them as well. GPX and KML remain for anyone who wants to put their points on a world map.

Save as a project

The points and all your settings — column choice, transformation, fit, output — stay in a project. You can hang that project under a customer, a project or a job, and pick it up later.