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Controller Software: I’ve heard of Carlson, Microsurvey, as well as each manufacturer’s respective software. Is there anything else out there?
ramses replied 1 year, 8 months ago 17 Members · 31 Replies
Hexagon also own Liscad – an Australian survey & design package <www.listech.com>
Maybe they have just shoved BricsCAD into a backdrawer
- Posted by: @jmorgan
I came up with a 48 and survey pro
A lot of people cut their data collecting teeth on TDS and continue to swear by it. But I do not think that many people breaking in to the survey field today are choosing it for themselves. It is clunky software by today’s standards.
@norman-oklahoma
I’m not sure I agree with that. I thought it was fairly simple and easy to use. That and SurvCE are what I use, and I like different parts of each.
I’ve used Leica Smartworx, and I’m fine with it with GPS, but find it very awkward with a TS. And Trimble Access is something that I’m happy to let everyone else use and be thrilled with, as long as I don’t ever have to deal with it again.
- Posted by: @jph
I’m not sure I agree with that.
Here are two specific complaints I have with Survey Pro:
- Used with A Topcon PS 103 robot. Criminally long latency lag times between issuing a command and some action commencing. Like 5 to 10 steamboats. Same instrument used with Magnet
eliminatesreduces the lag time significantly. I have other complaints about the gun, but this one is the fault of the software. - Access, and most other softwares, have a function where you shoot a reflectorless distance to the face of a pole or tree, and then turn angle to the edge of the pole or tree to compute a radius and calculate a shot on the center of the object. No such feature on SP (I’m aware of the opposite, distance to the side and angle to the center- that’s been there since the beginning of time). No response from SP to my repeated formal suggestion that it be added. The challenge – please name the last new feature that was added to SP. This why I call it a dead product.
Just generally the workflow of SP is barely ported from the old DOS style. It takes no advantage of the windows environment.
- Used with A Topcon PS 103 robot. Criminally long latency lag times between issuing a command and some action commencing. Like 5 to 10 steamboats. Same instrument used with Magnet
I inherited and used a TDS Ranger for a few years. Was not impressed with it. SDR was a better data collector 10 years before.
- Posted by: @norman-oklahoma
It takes no advantage of the windows environment.
We are even past windows now.
These days it is all about “touch”
@norman-oklahoma
I can’t speak to how it works with a robot. I’ve only used Leica robots, and with either a Leica or SurvCE controller.
It’s definitely dead, they stopped making it. Trimble bought them out and then did nothing with it, and pushed their own Access.
In reality, though, other than robotic ability, I’d say that most of what I use a data collector for hasn’t changed much since the days of TDS on the HP. Collecting raw data, storing coordinates, simple inverses and calculations.
Regarding the pricing for robotics, don??t neglect to consider the cost of a geocom license. FieldGenius comes with the geocom authorization built in for most Hexagon models. Check with MicroSurvey if you need to confirm any details.
@ladd-nelson You’re right, I apologize, and stand corrected. What y’all don’t support beyond 6.08 is iGage equipment, Like my iG8 receivers. Which sucks for me and anyone else who bought them because Mark Silver did such a good job selling SurvCE as the collection software to use. Sucks for iGage, too…..
@james-w-johnston Thanks for this valuable information!! Does that mean that a TPS1200 without Geocom will work with Fieldgenius?
You’ll need a Geocom licence to run your robot with a third party software.
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