Chaos Systems Releases Topocad 11 for Surveying, Mapping
 SOLNA,
Sweden,
Dec 23, 2008 – December 19 did Chaos systems AB release its eleventh version
of Topocad, the CAD software for surveying, mapping and design.
Topocad's
development cycle is very steady and continuous. Every Christmas time there
are new versions, a new version number that contains the big changes that
requires new file formats. So even 2008 and December 19 was the date said
and also the truth for the new release.
 Topocad have thousands of users in a wide spread all over the world, and
many different thinking and wanting comes from many of the users. This is a
foundation for the development and many of the users demands are put into
new releases.
For version 11 three areas have been in focus: Administration,
CAD/mapping/layout and Volume calculation.
 "The CAD/mapping part involves all users and is important for us because
it concerns our next step to make Topocad more involved in the mapping and
planning process especially in local authorities. We plan to release a new
module within this field during 2009 and it is a good step for us to improve
features such as layout and drawing sheet management, automatic scale bars
and North arrows, automatic fix of cutted texts in drawing views and things
that enhance the speed to create nice drawings and maps which still is very
important for most of our users", says Tomas Sandström, sales manager and
one of the partners of Chaos systems AB.
"When it comes to the administrative part Topocad 11 has a new interface
with more buttons, a check for corrupt files, a logging function for each
command in the files where you also can create your own notes, and functions
for better handling of system files as attribute tables and line type
files".
"Our users works with many different file formats, from simple coordinate
files, to CAD drawing files and GIS tool files and also different types of
databases, it has been easy to import and export many different file types
but now it is also possible to use these files as external references
directly, no translation or transformation is needed, Topocad reads the
files direct and you can mix file types as DWG, DGN, Shape, MIF, XYZ,
LandXML, MX genio and many more. If they have different insertion points or
rotations this is also made directly in the settings for the external
references. And for the file formats that uses layers we can turn different
layers on and off, also important to have the best graphic view for work and
for output", continues Tomas Sandström.
"In version 10 and during version 10 many new features was released for
the cross sectioning calculation and especially for the output from the
cross sections to LandXML files and digital terrain models. It is hard to
make much more concerning design and volume calculations but a couple of
things are released in version 11 and one of them is use of many different
digital terrain models in the cross section calculation and the other is a
completely new calculation of volume using an excavation bottom and
comparing this towards two digital terrain models just entering the slopes
towards them in excavation and/or fill (bank). It is a very fast way to
handle complex calculations and excavations for houses, road bodies, parking
lots and other surfaces", continues Tomas Sandström.
This is part of all new commands and improvements that has been developed
in Topocad 11, read more and download from
www.chaos.se/eng.
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