I must be missing something. I can't pull up a station coordinate and elevation from my road without being in an instrument setup.
I tried switching to demo mode, but it still didn't work. Any ideas?
All I want to do is pull up the station info with the DC in the field (without an instrument set up) that is shown just before staking a position (N,E,Z).
Thanks
I believe that is one of the programs that the programmers thought you would only use if you were connected to the instrument and actually staking out. For those programs you have to activate "manual mode" under instrument set up. Then go through the screens with bs set up, choose road, select station offset, stake, and maybe even store before it you can view coordinates of the point computed by station offset. My 2 cents, Jp
Thanks JP!
When I ran the BS total station set up all it did was give me the appropriate stakeout angle, ze, etc from the gun with my bogus info.
I then ran through a GPS set up in demo mode. Perfection! This allows one to enter any station, point (and offset if desired) along the road and view the N,E,Z design coordinate.
Beerleg Rocks!
Your welcome! I have an old dos version of survey pro loaded on HP 200 and it has a function under the roads menu to store points from the road alignment and also had a function called "grade book" to which you could go through and make sure all the call outs on the plans matched the road alignment you loaded for a check, such as tc at bcr's top of inlets and such. Most of the time they would not because of the tweaking the designer did when producing the plans, which always limited my use of the road program. I always thought tds went a few steps back when they came out with the windows version. My 2 cents, Jp