Welcome to Learning TPC Desktop.

This course walks you through the powerful and intuitive TPC Desktop. In the following lessons you’ll learn about the core parts of the TPC Desktop including…

Survey Components

Survey Components include points, lines, surfaces, drawings, traverses, and deliverables. The TPC Desktop is designed to help you develop and manage each one.

TPC Desktop Areas

TPC Desktop Areas focuses on understanding the key areas of the TPC Desktop and how you’ll navigate between powerful TPC tools like Managers and Views you’ll use every day.

TPC Desktop Managers

Each of the TPC Desktop Managers helps you control the different components of a survey. TPC includes managers for Surfaces, Drawings, Traverses, Points, Point Codes, Drawing Data, and Tasks—giving you full control of your project, all in one place.

TPC Desktop Views

TPC is built around what we call Views—the heart and soul of the program. Each View focuses on a specific task, making your workflow simple, flexible, and efficient. Use the Drawing View to create drawings, the Closure View to check lot closures, or the Vertical Curve View to enter vertical curve data. Every View includes its menu and toolbar, so tools appear when and where you need them. With Views, you see only the data you want—making the TPC Desktop truly better by design.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand the flow of a typical survey and how to apply TPC’s tools to your projects — all in a day. Are you ready? Let’s get started.

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