SurveyTools is free desktop software for surveyors. Adjust a station or a network, solve a road or rail alignment, reduce a digital level line, and edit the GSI or RW5 file.
Windows · Linux · 207-page manual · no account
Station 217, horizontal angles, with S in centesimal seconds on every station
Face I and Face II, the average, and the residual R
Station Adjustment keeps a whole campaign in one .adjproj file. Import Leica GSI or Captivate LandXML, average the faces and cycles, and read the directions, zenith angles and slope distances.
Error ellipses on the eisodos traverse. This run failed the chi-square test.
Network Adjustment ties the stations into a 3D, 2D or 1D network and reports coordinates, standard deviations, residuals and error ellipses. A failed chi-square test is printed on the sketch and in the report, so a scaled standard deviation is not read as the a-priori precision. STAR*NET is a trademark of MicroSurvey Software Inc. SurveyTools reads and writes a subset of that .dat format and is not affiliated with MicroSurvey.
.dat, .iqnet, Excel, or Netsist
Batch setout on LINE4_Draft_B, every 10 m from 10+000
Alignment Solver holds the horizontal alignment, the vertical profile, superelevation, widening, offsets and cant. Setout turns a chainage and offset into coordinates. Measure does the reverse.
Free station ST from five control points. Orientation 30 gon.
Free Station solves the instrument position and the circle orientation from angles and distances to known points. You do not type approximate coordinates. Precise trigonometric leveling and the OMA L4 calculator sit in the same list.
Each tool opens from the sidebar. Projects and field files stay in folders you can copy.
A special monitoring adjustment for sets of readings, and a geometric leveling adjustment with closure checks.
M5 .DAT files, single-line or dual-line, with a closure tolerance for Precise, Engineering or Rough work.
Open a Leica GSI file as a grid, edit a value, and write GSI8, GSI16, Excel or CSV. RW5 and CSV have their own editors.
Compute a 2D or 3D transformation from points known in both systems, review the residuals, then transform the rest of the file.
Plan sessions, solve baselines, and publish the result onward to the network adjustment. The Windows build ships iqrtk.dll.
Camera positions from a Matrice against a static base, in EGSA87 with an orthometric height, plus a flight log beside the on-board RTK.
HEPOS to EGSA87 with the 7-parameter shift, the 2 km grid and the HEPOS geoid. EGM2008 for Greece is in the data folder.
A section utility for a TunnelCAD survey, and a fixer for a Greek Ktimatologio JSON file.
Station and network reports list the settings of the run, so the numbers can be repeated from the report alone.
Linux on this page is build 2026.10.15.213, compiled 4 November 2026. Windows is 2026.10.13.212, from 28 October. The manual is release v2026.11.04.
Brings the GSI or the Captivate LandXML in, sees which round is weak, and deactivates it with the before-and-after still on the screen.
Station adjustmentHolds the control fixed, reads the error ellipses, and keeps a PDF that lists every setting of the solve.
Network adjustmentOpens a PSYMO alignment, sets out a chainage and offset, and writes the coordinates for the instrument.
Alignment solverUnzip the program and keep the folder together. The data/, reports/ and demo_files/ directories sit next to the executable.
Total-station rounds, leveling lines, and GNSS baselines.
Horizontal, vertical, superelevation, widening and cant.
One SQLite file for the stations and the network. Close it in one module before opening it in the other.
Reports name the settings. Coordinates leave as text, CSV, Excel or KML.
Station and network adjustment, monitoring, GNSS, transformations, the alignment solver, the survey calculator, DiNi, and the GSI, RW5 and CSV editors. The pages and the PDF on this page are release v2026.11.04, 4 November 2026, 207 pages. The Linux ZIP includes that PDF. The Windows ZIP still includes the 8 October 2026 PDF, 199 pages.
Knowledge base — one task at a time, with a link into the chapter.
Free download. No account, and no serial number.
Unzip and keep the folder together. On Windows run SurveyTools.exe. On Linux, chmod +x SurveyTools if needed, then ./SurveyTools. Linux needs glibc 2.38 or newer (Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 39, and the equivalents). SHA-256 checksums.