I'd like to hold the stationing for my baseline of construction when staking other polylines, like the r/w. Since the r/w has jogs etc... it does not match up with the true stationing and so I have to switch back and forth to different lines. It would be nice if I could have the BL construction stationing available while staking other lines. Anyone know if this is possible in survey pro 5.7.2?
Not possible as far as I know I have been doing construction layout with survey pro fro about 7 or 8 years now and would love that feature.
The best way I have found is to switch back and forth in the quick (star) menu.
Along time ago, I believe I would create one alignment under the "Roads Alignment" and the other under a "Polyline" or "Alignment". You could then change between programs for "Stake Road" or "Stake polyline/alignment" without losing your setup information like beginning station, name of road/polyline/alignment. I would use this when staking a line that did not follow centerline, such as curb line with bus turnouts and reversing transitional curves that did not follow centerline, but the contractor or inspector would want to see street stations on the curb stakes. So I would simply switch programs from "stake a polyline" too "show road station" and re-shoot the point to get the road station at the point on curb that was not concentric with the road centerline. I believe you could export a road alignment from a polyline quickly within the data collector so it was not that much of an inconvenience to do so if you did not have a road alignment built.
On a side note, roads in metro areas have got so complicated having street stations based on a centerline is worthless and is just a past practice that should be done away with in my opinion unless the engineers go back to building concentric roads. My 2 cents, Jp
