It has been a long time but on that Wild the on board software can do this I don??t remember how. I can??t remember if it would do the vertical though. Or wild soft or Terramodel or cad with the manual commands to enter hz angle like a field book. And vertical or za ht of instrument rod etc. ?ÿ It can be done and height carried in Terramodel for sure. I use to do 3 point intersections for 3d comps. ?ÿPossible to input manualy into many surveying software platforms. NGS tool kit might help. Excuse the grammar and spelling. I don??t have my glasses and my thumbs are huge on this phone lol. ?ÿI probably can dig out a comp sheet we used back years ago and you could input the formulas into excel and do it.
I think that by measuring the angle only, the distances cannot be calculated, and the horizontal distances must be measured with high accuracy to correct the travers.
It has been a long time but on that Wild the on board software can do this I don??t remember how.
The TC1000/1600 etc are very limited in the COGO they can do onboard. Resection, staking, that's about it...
@fenugrec TC. I apologize T1000 is what I ran. ?ÿIt was not COGO it was like SAS routine or something like that as long as you set it up correctly. ?ÿBut it has been years for sure. ?ÿLol. My brain gets confused sometimes. ?ÿI always liked a 3 point intersection when triangulation was needed especially if I wanted a vertical element in it. Two points will do it but no redundancy other than maybe direct and reverse angles. With three different points and cranking the angles you get enough data to see the error no matter how big or small. ?ÿIf it doesn??t need to be highly accurate then use a level rod with a few readings and do stadia reduction to get your distance. ?ÿThree wires and carefully readings should be able to get the distance from the theodolite to the rod with all three wires red to the hundredth to about a tenth of a foot. With a setting at vertical at 90 degrees and another two above or below that at good geometry. The. Its simple math triangle math for the distance and elevation. ?ÿThat might be a solution. With no edm or reflector less capabilities. You could check it between known??s. ?ÿThe simplest is setting scope at 90 like a level. But you can still reduce it without being at 90 degrees in vertical component. Maybe look at stadia topo procedures. ?ÿI hope this helps and thank you for the correction on TC1000 i read it as T1000. They had top mount edm you could set on them.?ÿ
I'm measuring features inside a building, and I'm using an older TS (Wild TC1000) that doesn't do reflectorless distance. So basically using it as a theodolite.
Reflective tape would allow distance measurements and greatly simplify the data analysis.
