Calculate Menu

Find Area
You can find the area of a plot by choosing one of the Find options from the Calculate menu. You can find the area in feet, meters, acres and hectares.

Area of Layer Minus Sub-Plots
This function allows you to find the area of a master plot, minus the area of multiple sub-plots.

Choose a master plot from the layer list. Check all of the layers that are considered a sub-plot of the master plot. Press the Calculate button. You will be presented with the area of the master plot, the area of each selected sub-plot, and the area remaining after the sub-plots' area is subtracted from the master plot's area.

Show Current Layer's Description

This menu will create a description from the current layer's calls. This description can be saved to a text file or copied to the clipboard.

Show Layer X,Y Point Coordinates
You can find the X, Y points of a drawing by choosing Show Point Coordinates from the Calculate menu. These values will use the POB X,Y settings if available. You can choose the number of decimal places to show the list as well as the type of units to use. The list can be exported as a text file or copied to the clipboard.

Calculate Perimeter

To find the perimeter distance of a plot, choose Calculate Perimeter from the Calculate menu. You can choose which unit of measurement this calculation is made in. You can also create a new layer label from this calculation.

Current Layer Angle Totals

This function provides a total count of the internal and external angles for the current layer.

 

Check for Closure

You can check to see if a plot description closes completely by choosing Check for Closure from the Calculate menu. If the plot description does not close, this will show you how far off the description is. You can also create a new layer label from this data. You can also choose which unit of measurement this information is presented in.

Unit Conversion Calculator
Choose this menu option to bring up the conversion calculator form.

Decimal Angle to Degrees
This will bring up a form that will allow you to convert an angle that is expressed as a decimal into an angle that is expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds.

Degree Angle to Decimal
This will bring up a form that will allow you to enter an angle that is in Degree/Minute/Second format and convert it into a decimal angle.

Azimuth to Bearing
This feature can be used to change compass style calls into bounds data.

Angle Calculator
This feature can be used to convert a plot description that is written using interior and exterior angles into a plot description that is written using metes and bounds.

Call Between Two Endpoints
This feature will return the metes and bounds call between two endpoints for the current layer.

Latitude / Longitude Calculator


 

To calculate the distance, angle or bearing between any two latitude/longitude points enter the data into points 1 and 2 and then press the appropriate calculation button.

To project a waypoint enter the starting point into Point #1 and press the Project Point button. This will bring up the Project Waypoint form. Enter in the angle and distance to the new waypoint. The new waypoint's lat/long will be placed in Point #2.

The latitude/longitude of each end point for a given layer can be calculated by choosing the appropriate layer from the layer popup menu and pressing the Get Coordinates button. If the latitude and longitude for the POB has not yet been set, you will be prompted to enter this value. You can choose how many decimal places the coordinates are calculated to by choosing the number from the Decimal Places popup menu.

Once the end point lat/long has been calculated, you can easily enter the point data into the calculator above by selecting the point and pressing either the Set Point 1 or the Set Point 2 button.

A layer's end point lat/long coordinates can be saved as a GPX file from by choosing Export Lat/Long as GPX from the File menu.

A layer's end point lat/long coordinates can be saved as a text file by choosing Export Lat/Long as Text File from the File menu.

A layer's end point lat/long coordinates can be saved as a comma delimited text file by choosing Export Lat/Long as Comma Delimited from the File menu.

A layer's end point lat/long coordinates can be sent to the Lat/Long to Layer tool by choosing Send Coordinates to Layer Converter from the Options menu.

A layer's end point  lat/long coordinates can be set as waypoints by choosing the Create Waypoints From Lat/Long from the Options menu. The waypoints will be added to the main window's currently selected layer.

Point #2 can be used to set the current layer's POB by selecting Set Current Layer POB to Point 2 Lat/Long from the Options Menu.

Checking the Display as DMS box will cause the lat/long coordinates to be displayed as Degree/Minute/Second instead of as decimal values.

Declination Calculator

This function will find the declination between two lat/long points calculated by the software and two lat/long points as measured by a separate device. Select the two endpoints for the calculated coordinates. Enter the measured lat/long for the same two points. Press the Find Declination button to find the rotation between the calculated and measured values.

UTM to Lat/Long Calculator

Use this form to convert UTM values to Lat/Long and vise-versa. Easting and Northing values can be entered from a World File by using the popup menu triangle.

SPCS to Metes and Bounds Call

This feature will return a metes and bounds call for two SPCS points. It can also create a new layer from a series of SPCS points. When creating a layer, the software can import comma separated values files in the form of P,Y,X,Z and X,Y.

 

Project Waypoint

Project Waypoint takes the Lat/Long of an existing waypoint, an angle and a distance and calculates a new waypoint.

Or, you can use the Lat/Long of an existing waypoint and a metes and bounds call to calculate a new waypoint.