I'm fairly new to using tech with my setting out job, so sorry if I'm asking anything obvious.
We're currently doing a lot of piled foundation work and we're only provided northing/easting brick work co-ords, so I manually offset every point to go from ext brickwork to outside of shutter (or offset the other way for centre line dig).
Is there any software to automate this? Just plot the external corners and shrink/grow it by a set dimension?
Autocad has an "offset" command...
Instead of drawing individual lines make it a polyline and then offset it.
Have a look at Carlson/Survey/Cogo/Building offset extensions
Actually what total station are you using? It can also be done on the total station and is handy when you need it in a jiffy
Using a leica ts06+. The only cad I have is AutoCAD 360 for android sadly as the company I work for is a bit old fashioned (though Ive started personally emailing the office producing drawings for dwg). We're doing our first big site in many years (big for us anyway, 60 houses) and im trying to do everything as efficiently and 'properly' as I can.
In Survey Pro, you can create a poly line and then "offset line". Handy as a pocket on a shirt!
Edit*. "Offset points" on the poly line will create 2 offset points at each building corner, if you would rather a batter-board type setup as opposed to a single offset corner.
Traverse PC has a great Corner Offset tool for staking. Here's a video on how it works.
Corner Offsets (4:24) Compute 5Û? lot corner offsets to stake a foundation.
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