MBS Survey Software Ltd

RXS Tools - Hydrographic Software

MBS are a specialist software company wholly owned and managed by a professional firm of Land Surveyors with a great deal of past and ongoing experience with all aspects of inshore hydrographic surveys. Our software has therefore been developed by practitioners with direct understanding of the problems usually encountered with this type of work.

The software started its life back in 1994 as a MS-DOS package used to process raw field data into both cross-sectional and long sectional information.

RXS Tools is a complete River Cross-Section program for Land & Hydrographic Surveyors.  It has been completely re-written as a third party AutoCAD bolt on,  and will now replace the original MS-DOS package which is still widely used by many Environment Agency contractors in the production of data for flood defence management and channel maintenance in the form of reports and plotted CAD data

The software runs within the AutoCAD environment and allows complete processing of field data into finished cross-section and long-section CAD drawing files.  Raw field data can be downloaded and imported from total station and GPS instrumentation directly into the AutoCAD environment, and is modelled in true 3D along a pre-defined river centreline.

All the standard AutoCAD tools are available for drawing, editing and manipulating lines, polylines, circles, text etc, ensuring short learning curves and immediate productivity.

Editing of individual sections, layering, text and UCS manipulation is managed by the software, ensuring that consistency throughout the data is achieved at all stages of the process.

There is support for “linking” photographs into the model in their true locations, which can then be output into documents which meet the Environment Agency’s specification.  The model can be interrogated by "Non-Users" of the software with a free Photo Viewer available from our downloads section (AutoCAD is still required).

The software ensures that one single “Sectional Model” is used throughout, allowing exports in various formats for use by the Environment Agency and Hydrographic Modellers.

One complete drawing, one complete data set!