We recently 'upgraded' Topcon Magnet Field. The vendor put all of our coordinate systems, geiods, etc, back on the Tesla for us. We immediately ran into issues using our Class settings for robotic doubled angles. That hurdle cleared we moved on to process data.
All of our sets now include numerous slope distances with no zenith angle. The software appears to believe that means 'slope equals horizontal' and proceeds to puke. I can manually clean out the data but it's getting real old real fast.
Does anyone have a class definition for the current version of Magnet Field that wont do this?
We will figure it out eventually but I have to believe someone here has seen this already...
Seems it matters what format raw data you write out . If I write out in rw5 it screws up my , front doubles and doubles class .If I write the raw file out as tds raw file it seems to be correct . I sent the problem to the dealer and a Topcon, but have not heard anything. topcon tech support is non existent.
Djames,
Thanks for the reply. We used to convert to DAT and process in StarNet. I saw similar issues. We went full Topcon when the company 'up-graded' to 64 bit. Our IT advisor pooh-poohed the XP virtual fix (another thread entirely).
We are using Magnet Field Files. After some discussion yesterday we found that our more out-going tech had amended the class to shoot two distances every time. Unfortunately I spent several hours scratching my head and a few more cleaning the 'experimental' files. He had no idea Magnet would insert a random value where the zenith was missing..
On the one hand it aggravated me. On the other it reminded me of a young tech that crashed and smashed his way from chain and tables to the toys we now enjoy. He just stays a bit further out on the bleeding edge at times...