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Professional Surveyor Magazine September 2004

PrimaCode Launches Transform for Windows
PrimaCode Technologies announces the release of Transform for Windows, a product designed specifically to help land surveyors analyze and reproduce prior surveys in a fraction of the time ordinarily necessary. To do this, Transform uses a concurrent processing schema to perform least-squares solutions on-the-fly. Transform generates a new solution and refreshes all the associated display values every time the user modifies the relationship of the coordinate systems being compared. This allows the user to quickly determine which set of conditions will minimize the errors associated with the monuments found on the ground and to identify which monuments are no longer in their original and undisturbed locations. Transform also displays a modified error ellipse or error radius for each transformed point and a precision value for each transformation parameter, both of which have their values tied to one of the four common statistical confidence levels (68%, 90%, 95%, 99%). The supplied error radii can be used to test for compliance with positional tolerances and to check for blunders in classical computations while the parameter precisions can be used to determine how tight or loose the overall solution is. Most important, the final work product is more defensible because the process of evaluating evidence is more objective and the locations of lost and missing corners are the most statistically probable locations. To see the many other features Transform has to offer, visit www.primacode.com.

Point of Beginning Magazine August 2004

PrimaCode Technologies announced the release of Transform for Windows, a product designed specifically to help land surveyors analyze and reproduce prior surveys in a fraction of the time ordinarily necessary. To do this, Transform uses a concurrent processing schema to perform least-squares solutions on-the-fly. Transform generates a new solution and refreshes all the associated display values every time the user modifies the relationship of the coordinate systems being compared. This allows the user to quickly determine which set of conditions will minimize the errors associated with the monuments found on the ground and to identify which monuments are no longer in their original and undisturbed locations.

Transform also displays a modified error ellipse or error radius for each transformed point and a precision value for each transformation parameter, both of which have their values tied to one of the four common statistical confidence levels (68%, 90%, 95%, 99%). The supplied error radii can be used to test for compliance with positional tolerances and to check for blunders in classical computations while the parameter precisions can be used to determine how tight or loose the overall solution is. Most important, the final work product is more defensible because the process of evaluating evidence is more objective and the locations of lost and missing corners are the most statistically probable locations.

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Announcements

Calibrate made available to all free of charge

July 5, 2008 -- PrimaCode's Calibrate for Windows has been converted to freeware. Now anyone can download and use the product free of charge. As part of the conversion, the product also was changed to support the International Foot, which had been requested by some users. PrimaCode understands that this little utility program is not a must-have item for most land surveyors, since electronic measuring devices only get tested a few times a year and when they are, it isn't done using a mathematical algorithm (e.g. Least Squares) capable of producing statistical data on how the instrument is working and how to adjust it. Therefore, PrimaCode has decided to put aside its plan to someday market this product in favor of providing it free of charge.

Transform Gets Major Upgrade

July 26, 2010 -- PrimaCode releases a major upgrade to Transform for Windows, its flagship product used to best-fit two and merge two coordinates systems. This update incorporate a number of user suggestions as well as cleaning up areas of concern identified through technical support sessions with users.

Transform is a least-squares two dimensional conformal coordinate transformation program designed specifically for use by land surveyors and other measuring professionals. It provides an extremely intuitive and fast means of best fitting any prior survey (such as highway layouts, subdivision plans, deed plots, etc.) to a fixed coordinate system such as those established by recent field surveys. Transform is also an extremely powerful analytical tool for evaluating the monuments and measurements used to describe a prior survey.

By allowing you to define the parameters of a transformation dynamically, Transform is able to report analysis information concurrently with each user input. As a result, you can instantly simulate any number of transformations and view real-time statistics on associated matters such as positional tolerance, meridian precision, unit length precision, blunder detection, without getting bogged down in the setup and processing associated with such solutions.

Given the fact that the identification and analysis of evidence is what separates a professional land surveyor from a non-professional, Transform provides you with tools that will help you become a better professional and produce a more professional product. Transform does this by providing a superior means of prospecting for lost or missing boundary markers, of analyzing the reliability of the monuments found, to predict the precision of relocated points, to reproduce the most probable meridian of a prior survey and to correct for differences in unit length for prior surveys, just to mention a few.

Transform also allows you to define any number of individual coordinate systems in a single project, all of which can be transformed. The original coordinates for each system are preserved and can be accessed at any time, even after the system has been transformed. Of course, the transformed coordinates are also always available. Moreover, you can add new points to any coordinate system before or after coordinates are transformed and using either the original or transformed coordinate values.

Transform was designed and optimized for use with the Windows XP family of operating systems. As a Windows program, it presents the user with an extremely intuitive graphical-user-interface which reduces training time for experiences Windows users. Transform has also been thoroughly tested for use on other popular Windows operating systems.

For more information, see the product page for Transform for Windows.