Description:  A tool that facilitates the creation of polyline or polygon features using a set of survey measurements using ANY ArcGIS license (ArcView, ArcEditor or ArcInfo). This is complex tool that allows:

• Creating new traverses from a wide variety of survey measurements:
  • Straight lines using
    • Direction - Distance
    • Angle - Distance
    • Delta X - Delta Y
    • X - Y
  • Curves using Chord Direction and any combination of Chord length, Radius, Arc Length and Central angle
  • Tangent Curves using any combination of Chord length, Radius, Arc Length and Central angle
• Editing existing features using their traverses.
• Creating copies of existing features and editing them using their traverses
• Exporting newly created traverse or the traverse of an existing feature to a text file (ESRI traverse file format)
• Importing traverse from a text file in ESRI traverse file format
• Using in any of the functions above four different direction types and four different direction units
• Saving the COGO features created together with their attributes
• Calculate Misclosure (Version 9.4 and above)
• Adjust Traverse using Compass rule. (Version 9.4 and above)

Notes:

• It is very important that the Spatial References of the Data Frame and the Target layer set in the Editor are the same (or at least have the same Geographic Coordinate System)
• The distance units used in the ET Traverse tool are these of the spatial reference of the dataset being edited.
• The tool will be enabled only within an editing session
• Version 9.4 and above: The users can specify the distance units of the inputs

See also:

• COGO Traverse Dialog
• How to use ET Traverse
• Direction Types and Direction Units
• Traverse File Format

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