ProCogo XL 24 Feature List

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

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