TopoMan CAD
What each license unlocks
The trial is the whole program and it never expires. What you buy is the ability to take the work away and, depending which, the surveying.
Trial
To try it without paying anything and with no expiry date.
Editing
For anyone who draws and edits drawings but does no surveying.
Complete
For the surveyor. Everything, no limits.
Subscription
Monthly, across several machines plus an Android phone, for TopoMan CAD and the AutoCAD plugin.
See the subscription prices
The monthly subscription is paid by card on the pricing page, and renews by itself every month until you cancel it. Permanent licenses already sold keep working exactly the same, for good.
The table, no small print
| What | Trial | Editing | Complete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open DXF and DWG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Draw, edit, dimension and measure | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Layers, blocks and layouts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save and save as | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plot and print | − | ✓ | ✓ |
| Surveying: points, tables and subdivision | ✓ | − | ✓ |
| Georeferencing and satellite background | ✓ | − | ✓ |
| Technical description to Word and PDF | − | − | ✓ |
| Contour lines, profiles and the 3D terrain model | ✓ | − | ✓ |
| Cut and fill figures | − | − | ✓ |
Trial
- Open DXF and DWG
- Draw, edit, dimension and measure
- Layers, blocks and layouts
- Save and save as
- Plot and print
- Surveying: points, tables and subdivision
- Georeferencing and satellite background
- Technical description to Word and PDF
- Contour lines, profiles and the 3D terrain model
- Cut and fill figures
Editing
- Open DXF and DWG
- Draw, edit, dimension and measure
- Layers, blocks and layouts
- Save and save as
- Plot and print
- Surveying: points, tables and subdivision
- Georeferencing and satellite background
- Technical description to Word and PDF
- Contour lines, profiles and the 3D terrain model
- Cut and fill figures
Complete
- Open DXF and DWG
- Draw, edit, dimension and measure
- Layers, blocks and layouts
- Save and save as
- Plot and print
- Surveying: points, tables and subdivision
- Georeferencing and satellite background
- Technical description to Word and PDF
- Contour lines, profiles and the 3D terrain model
- Cut and fill figures
The table is about perpetual licences. The monthly subscription unlocks the same as Complete for as long as it is paid, and the bundle also covers the AutoCAD plugin.
And the AutoCAD plugin, the same way
Since its version 3.0, the TopoMan plugin for AutoCAD uses the same licensing system as TopoMan CAD: the same account, the same machine identifier and the same dialog to activate it.
A permanent license belongs to one program: the TopoMan CAD one does not activate the plugin, nor the other way round. If you buy both, you get two files for the same machine identifier, and each program installs its own.
The subscription covers what you paid for (TopoMan CAD, the plugin or both) and each program keeps its own date. If you already have one and add the other with the same email, they add up: you do not lose the one you had.
On the same computer both programs share the link: they count as a single device of your subscription, and releasing it from one releases it for both.
Every subscription plan also includes an Android phone with the complete TopoMan CAD, without using up a device: the CAD and the plugin on the computer, and the mobile version on the phone.
The trial is not a cut-down version
It opens, draws, measures, dimensions and edits with no limits and no expiry date. The only things blocked are save, save as and plot. That is deliberate: whoever evaluates it sees exactly what they are buying, and what they cannot do is deliver a drawing without paying for it.
And the buttons are neither hidden nor greyed out. You press them and they take you to the license dialog, which explains why and shows the machine identifier ready to copy. A button that is not there teaches nobody what the program can do.
A license is tied to one machine
The identifier comes from the hardware (the motherboard and the system), not from the operating system, so it survives formatting and reinstalling Windows. The license dialog shows it, ready to copy and send.
What does it cost?
The monthly subscription prices are published: the three plans, with their price per number of computers and the Android phone that comes with them. The perpetual licence prices are not, because they depend on what you need: write to me and I will tell you.