SOLE Professional

With the help of modern technology, mapping has greatly evolved and precision is no longer a major issue. Moreover, for survey designs, road design and more specialized applications such as SOLE Professional put an intuitive environment at your disposal so you can accurately create designs, measure areas and analyze other projects.

The interface is represented by a basic Windows layout with small icons kept in side panels and toolbars in order to provide more space to edit and view designs. For enhanced accuracy, you can equip your workspace with a customizable grid, as well as rulers to carefully measure objects.

Your toolbox is filled with a handful of drawing tools starting from single points and lines to raster images, blocks or hatches. Each can be adjusted to better represent your ideas, with options for size, style, as well as color. Sadly, when handling text, editing tools are not so intuitive and lack options for font and color, with post-processing being impossible.

There's the possibility to merge multiple selections together into an object so that handling complex schematics becomes easier. Layer management is also available, and easy to handle. A simple list lets you add new ones and organize existing ones, or quickly have them printed on a sheet of paper.

You can find an abundance of controls for the view, which lets you analyze your project from nearly every point of view. Besides panning and zooming, there are also options for a 3D view, not highly-rendered, but adjusting the view at a specific angle, or several preset Isometric ones.

Other than the possibility to fill out your workspace with custom objects or imported designs, you can prepare it for thorough analysis with the help of several dimension tools. Radius, angular and linear are amongst the common, each displaying values according to purpose.

To sum it up, SOLE Professional is overall a practical survey creation and analysis tool, with a simple, yet intuitive interface and a wide array of drawing, measuring and viewing tools at your disposal. As such, projects concerning road design, topology, railway or pipeline are easier to create with enhanced accuracy.