Field data arrives as points, and clients want finished, labelled drawings. We've built the tools that close that gap, from offshore pipeline charts to land survey plats.
An offshore charting toolkit, built from the inside.
Our founder built this AutoCAD toolkit in-house at an offshore survey company, for pipeline, cable and platform site surveys. Client charts stay private, so every picture here is our own drawing with sample data.
Commands50
in one AutoCAD toolkit
Tables6
written from the drawing, not typed
Line standards17
applied in one click
Colour bands20
for soundings, at any map scale
Bathymetry
Soundings
Reads processed soundings from an XYZ file and plots them at the correct map scale, in the format and colours the chart calls for.
Soundings plotted from XYZ, TXT or CSV files
Up to 20 colour bands, sized from the data
Your own sounding style, read from a template drawing
Soundings exported back to a file
4 more
Hydrographic or engineering format
Minimum and maximum depth reported first
Split soundings merged into one value
Existing soundings replotted in a new style
1An XYZ file read in, with its depth range reported
2Hydrographic format: whole metres, with smaller, slanted tenths
3Engineering format: one value, and split soundings merged into it
4Up to 20 colour bands, sized from the data's depth range
Routes
Routes and KPs
Works out kilometre points along pipeline and cable routes, and writes the route's geometry into a table instead of leaving it to be typed.
KP markers at any interval, plus start and end
Route tables with tangent and intersection points
Grid coordinates converted to latitude and longitude
Platform and survey area coordinate tables
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Curve radii read from the route's own arcs
KP, offset and port or starboard on a click
Four datum and grid set-ups, in all 60 UTM zones
Route details sent to a file
1KP markers along the route at any interval, plus its start and end
2The route table: tangent points and intersection points, with KP, coordinates and radius
3KP, offset and port or starboard, read back from a click
Crossings
Pipeline crossings
Finds where other pipelines and cables cross the proposed route, then numbers each crossing and lists it.
A numbered leader at each crossing
KP and coordinates of every crossing
Both bearings, as a reciprocal pair
Exposed, buried or interpolated, read from the line's colour
1Each crossing found on the route, numbered and given a leader
2KP, coordinates and both bearings, with status read from the line's colour
Seabed
Sonar contacts and seabed features
Turns geophysical findings into symbols and tables: sonar contacts, free spans, current data and anchor patterns.
Sonar contacts placed from their labels
Contact tables from a base point or along the route
Free spans projected onto the route and logged to CSV
Anchor patterns with wire lengths and buffer circles
4 more
Signed cross-course distance, starboard or port
Debris, hard contact or linear, from the dimensions measured
Current data as scaled, rotated blocks
Attributed blocks imported from text files
1Sonar contacts placed along the survey corridor from their labels
2KP and signed distance from the route, classed from the measured dimensions
3Free spans projected onto the route and logged to CSV
4Anchor patterns labelled: IDs, coordinates, wire lengths and buffer circles
Sheets
Rotated chart sheets
Long routes run across many sheets at many angles. Each panel's soundings turn to read upright, and each panel becomes its own drawing.
Soundings rotated to each sheet panel
One drawing saved for each panel
Xrefs attached and clipped from a list
All the drawings in a folder merged into one
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Whole and decimal parts kept together
The source drawing left as it was
1Sheet panels set along a route, at any angle
2Soundings turned to read upright on each panel
3Each panel saved as its own drawing, and the source left as it was
Standards
Line standards and grids
Every chart comes out the same. One click sets the layer, colour, line type and weight, and the line type scale follows the map scale.
17 line standards in one menu
Pipelines and cables, by status
Contour labels set into a clean gap
Create Grid: tic marks or full grid lines
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Contours, isopachs and anchor scars
Survey area and sonar coverage boundaries
UTM grids with labels on all four sides
Grid spacing, label height and decimals you set
1Pipelines restyled in one click, by status
2Cables in their own line types
3Contours, isopachs, scars and boundaries, with labelled gaps in the lines
4Create Grid: tic marks or full lines, labelled on all four sides
Land survey
From field points to finished plats.
The same idea on land: the drawing rules live in the tool, so a surveyor's points become a labelled drawing without the repeat work.
Land survey
Civil 3D
Survey drafting toolkit
Palettes that turn field data into finished survey drawings for a survey drafting firm.
Point import and classification
Building outlines with offsets, dimensions and areas
Building, improvement and bearing labels
Impervious area tables and Excel reports
1 more
Local or GPS coordinate registration
1Field points imported and classified
2Building outlines with offsets, dimensions and areas
3Building, improvement and bearing labels
4Impervious area tables, and reports in Excel
What we automate
Survey work that repeats on every job.
Surfaces and contours
Earthwork calculations
Topo drawings and plats, labelled and ready to issue
Platforms and outputs
Built on the CAD you already use.
Civil 3D
AutoCAD
BricsCAD
Topo drawings
Plats
Charts
Coordinate tables
Volume reports
Command:RT_START_PROJECT
Have survey drawings to automate?
Send us a sample drawing and your charting standards. We'll reply with an approach and a fixed quote.
