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From field data to completed drawing

a small step, yet a major leap

Pythagoras enables you to make your drawing in the field. You set your own codes and let Pythagoras convert your field data into a drawing. The points, symbols, texts and lines will automatically pop up in the chosen color, style and layer. Pythagoras offers extensive coding possibilities that will allow the most complex measuring situations to be converted efficiently into a drawing. Since Pythagoras VBA allows Pythagoras to communicate directly with a serial port, receiving real-time GPS or total station data directly into a Pythagoras drawing is one of the applications that is in hot demand. 

The CAD application that meets the surveyor's needs

Integrated calculation and drawing functions

Pythagoras is not a general application that has been adjusted, but a CAD application specifically designed to serve your needs as a surveyor or civil engineer. Pythagoras integrates both sophisticated calculation and drawing functions. You determine the intersections, areas, distances, etc. while drawing. Pythagoras offers you a multitude of advantages. No need for tricks: all the operations remain simple, however complex or extensive your plan gets. With a simple click of the mouse button every specialized calculation and drawing function is at your fingertips.

Unique drawing functions

Topographic drawing has Its specific demands. Pythagoras can handle the most complex symbols, styles of lines and hatchings. Pythagoras' unique application allows you to define these drawing elements in both paper and real dimensions. Forget the time consuming scale alterations. You wish your texts and symbols to remain in a horizontal position, even if you rotate your drawing in relation to the page? Pythagoras can do that, too. Furthermore, even he general drawing functions are designed with the needs of the surveyor in mind: perpendicular and parallel. lines, arcs, polygons, coordinate systems, layers, etc. Never before could you make your drawings so easily and so quickly! 

Powerful but simple to use

Pythagoras is part of the new generation of CAD software. No more complex commands, instead: intuitive and simple functions.

Intelligent cursor

Whenever the cursor approaches an object on the screen, a 'target' appears. The form of the target depends on the object and the place of the object it refers to. This way, the cursor automatically snaps to points, lines, points of tangency, etc. At the same time exact information about the object is displayed in the control panel. A few simple mouse clicks suffice to obtain the distance between a point and an are, the radius of an arc, the difference in height between two points, etc. As simple and quick as it gets.

The Control Panel

The control pane! is your instrument panel while you are making your drawings, calculations, etc. The information in the Pythagoras control panel is context sensitive, i.e the information in the control panel will change according to the object you want to draw and according to the relation of this object to other objects. Thanks to this control panel and the intelligent cursor, exact drawing with the mouse of any chosen object becomes totally effortless.

A standard graphical environment

Pythagoras is the only application of its kind that is available for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh environments. Working simultaneously on various drawings, as well as selecting, printing, etc. All these functions are executed in a way that is standard for Windows and Macintosh applications. 

From field data to completed drawing….a professional result

Pythagoras works according to the WYSIWYG-principle, thus showing you on the screen exactly how your drawing will be printed. Adding a frame poses no problems whatsoever: you draw in page coordinates, directly onto your page, without having to take into account the scale of the drawing. Selecting a different page layout? Your drawing coordinates will not change and the frame will stick to the page. The result? A perfect printout of your drawings. 

All the functions the surveyor needs combined in one application

Raster data

Pythagoras allows the perfect combination of raster and vector data offering numerous possibilities while making location models, preliminary designs, and thematic maps as well as digitizing drawings.  Pythagoras integrates raster data in a way fit to a topographic application: transformation to the chosen coordinates. adjust the scale,... Pythagoras can even combine thousands of different maps into one drawing

Terrain modeling

The calculation of contour lines, cross sections, cut & fill, and slopes as well as a perspective view of the site. Pythagoras makes them all possible. Based on tens of thousands of points and break lines - or arcs for that matter Pythagoras can calculate a field model using flowing contour lines, each at a desired distance, color and type of line. The cross sections and profiles will be made to the chosen scale and you can place them wherever you want. Pythagoras calculates the cut & fills based on two (out of max. 32) digital terrain models.

Road design

Pythagoras also proves to be a powerful. yet user-friendly, application for road design. A well designed window will show you the field data and an adjusted control panel will help you design the profile.  The result: detailed cross sections, profiles and volumes.

Calculations

For most calculations, Pythagoras will not ask you for any special commands. They are considered a logical result of the way the objects are being drawn. Exceptions are: the calculations of transformations, traverses, adjustments, intersections, and resections..

Coordinate system Transformations

In Pythagoras, all coordinates are 3D. The coordinate system therefore, is also three dimensional. Compared to other 3D CAD applications the Pythagoras coordinate system is always situated in a horizontal plane that corresponds with the use of coordinates in the field. Pythagoras enables you to work in any chosen coordinate system specified by 2 common points or calculated based on 3 or more points in common. For the exchange of data between drawings, the copy and paste function suffices. All objects, points, lines. etc. obtain the right coordinates. all transformation parameters being automatically calculated by Pythagoras

Programmable - Pythagoras VBA

Pythagoras allows you to exchange drawings with other CAD applications in various ways (e.g. DXF, DWG, DGN). Above all Pythagoras is an open application, allowing programmers to make direct links between Pythagoras and other applications. The goal here is client specific functions and the integration with other information systems and databases

Pythagoras CAD + GIS

A tightly integrated CAD and GIS provides the ultimate solution for many geo-applications, as in utility companies and municipalities. A few examples:

• Simultaneously, even automatically, make changes to both drawing and the related data that are stored in an external database such as MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, ODSC.

• Graphically consult a database (based on graphic objects in a drawing), and make changes if needed.

• Analyze data stored in a database. graphically represent these data in a drawing, and automatically update the drawing based on changes made to the database.

Using Pythagoras, any such applications can be custom developed for your organization