Land Surveyor Forum

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  Underhill Geomatics June 25, 2009 at 4:18pm

  Copan for Windows version 09.06 (released on 2009.06.24) adds these features:
  o Continuous coordinate readout.
  o Instant point-to-point measure.
  o More angle and area precision options.
  You can download Copan from our home page or from our Box on LSU!
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    Underhill Geomatics > Underhill Geomatics December 3, 2009 at 1:49pm

    Version 09.11 (released on 2009.12.02) of Copan for Windows -- the free COGO tool -- now
    o plots imperial-unit maps to scale
    o has various bug-fixes
    o runs on 64-bit machines
    
    Read what it can do in the Field Notes > Quick Start Guides section of LSU
    http://landsurveyorsunited.ning.com/pages/land-surveying-equipment-...
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  Underhill Geomatics December 22, 2008 at 8:06pm

  Version 08.12 (released on 2008.12.22) of Copan for Windows has improved support for the different bearing (or azimuth) formats used around the world.
  
  It supports quadrant and whole-circle bearings, south-based and north-based circle bearings, and gons (or grads) as well as degrees.
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  Underhill Geomatics November 17, 2008 at 2:33pm

  Good questions, Darren.
  
  The free version of Copan cannot export to DXF/DWG files. However, a future version of Windows Copan will export directly to DWG files. (Our in-house version has been doing this for years.)
  
  Generally, Copan cannot talk (upload/download) directly to total stations or digital levels; it imports/exports ascii files which you, independently of Copan, copy to/from instruments. However, Copan Mobile (PocketPC/PalmOS versions) can get coordinates directly from a GPS device, if the device's output is in NMEA 0183 format and is via a (virtual/actual) serial port.
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  Darren Noble November 14, 2008 at 11:43pm

  Does it export DXF or DWG files?
  What can you upload to a survey instrument?
  Can you download straight into it, or do you need to use another program to extract survey information?
  
  Darren
  Noble Consulting Surveyors
  Surveying in Bunbury, Western Australia
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    Skip Farrow > Darren Noble November 15, 2008 at 5:08pm

    you can find links for many softwares on the LSU Handbook...perhaps there may be some of use to you there..hope this helps..
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  Underhill Geomatics August 25, 2008 at 3:26pm

  Copan for Windows, version 08.08 (released on 2008.08.25) has improved support for CSV files.
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  Skip Farrow June 13, 2008 at 10:32pm

  sounds interesting...i think ill give it a whirl...free is always good...thanks