@ncsudirtman there is a great youtube video that was put on showing LSA with carlson. It was both rtk and conventional. I can’t remember who did it but it was more of a lsa why to use it but from what i saw it was not bad at all to learn. Seemed very intuitive etc.
No, I only use Autocat for drafting. TBC is strictly used for handling coordinates plus using it for Legal Descriptions, I really like the Legal Description program in TBC. I don't think TBC will ever replace Autocat, cause so many clients use it.
I would run HUGE traverses for the work I did through the 80's and early 90's. Normally I would adjust everything while I ate lunch in the truck for boundary work, or take it all back to the office and do it there. Then I got StarNet while the bigger jobs weren't coming in for a couple of years. I used it for small little things like ALTA and some subdivision jobs. I liked it a lot.
Then I got Trimble and StarNet just was gone. I'm not paying for another adjustment program. There was no point, we stopped running traverses, we started using digital levels, no more sun shots, no more miles long control work, it's all automated now. Honestly when would I even use it? The most we do is a two point traverse that usually closes <+-.03'. Everything else is Robot on GPS control networks that are already adjusted.
@mightymoe the legal writer in tbc is on my to do list to figure out by the boss. I cogo in a make believe boundary and ran it for giggles and he said we needed to use that from now on. But we had a big job recently and all the boundary work was done in cad and i had several lots i was trying to get it to work on but was not working. I figured it had to do with coming from cad. I have not done a sun shot since 2004. Yes those days are almost gone i guess.
I primarily use StarNet for terrestrial observation data adjustment and TBC for GPS observations. StarNet in my opinion is fairly easy to learn and create input data files.
Geolab looks like a great program and has been around for a while.
It's super easy, all you do is copy a poly line (2d) to TBC, then access the LD program, it will write the description using the poly. Lots of play to edit the format.
