So you come in from the field after a day of topo/locations/stakeout...what have you.
What do you do with the data file? (in my case the .RAW file)
Do you download it every day and print it out (.raw file) and put a copy in the the job folder?
Do you just download it and archive it? No hard copy for the file.
Do you not download it and continue to add to it in the DC until the job is complete(multiple trips to the jobsite), and then download it.
Just curious here..
> So you come in from the field after a day of topo/locations/stakeout...what have you.
>
> What do you do with the data file? (in my case the .RAW file)
>
> Do you download it every day and print it out (.raw file) and put a copy in the the job folder?
>
> Do you just download it and archive it? No hard copy for the file.
>
> Do you not download it and continue to add to it in the DC until the job is complete(multiple trips to the jobsite), and then download it.
>
> Just curious here..
Download daily. No printout, as a rule. I do usually printout the adjustment report later. New file for each days work. I might modify that latter practice if I were solo.
I rename it in the collector adding the date in this format (Project#-20111016.rw5). Then I download it to the project, leaving a copy in the DC as a "backup."
The next day I open the project, Carlson automatically creates a new .rw5 since it can't "find" the .rw5 from the day before. TDS works the same way.
Download daily, rename the files to correspond to the date if it's a multi-trip job. no printouts usually, until I start processing, and only then if there's an issue. I clean up files from the data collector every couple of weeks.
I generally download at the end of each day, especially if it is a multi day project, however the job stays all in one file on the data collector. I make a daily folder in the project file on the PC, though.
I try to back up each of my two Rangers every two weeks or so.
Being solo, it is easier than if I had multiple crews running several different jobs.
There is alot I would like to improve on to get better organized, but so far it's working for me.
Download every day.
I use a 4 digit job number (a holdover from my DOS days) and add a date.
My job today is 3357. When I download the .crd and .raw file they will be
33571116.asc
33571116.raw.
I download the entire DC jobs folder to my PC and rename the folder with a date tag (e.g., JOBS 20111116 would be today's downloaded folder). I stopped printing raw and coordinate data at least 15 years ago -- I just never found a need for it.
> Do you download it every day and print it out (.raw file) ...
Do y0u mean print 0ut the truly raw data, fr0m the gun (s0rry ab0ut the zer0es f0r 0hs, there's a crumb stuck under my 0h!) 0r the readable list 0f 0bservati0ns?
I can understand the arguments f0r and against b0thering t0 list angles & distances, etc, but s0me instrument files c0me 0ut, shall we say, less than user-friendly. (GSI c0mes t mind)
Download & print every day.
> s0rry ab0ut the zer0es f0r 0hs, there's a crumb stuck under my 0h!
Keyboard keys are made to be popped off for cleaning. Go ahead, pry it off - it will go back on just fine after you retrieve that crumb.
I make a folder each day "field file_111611" and sometimes subfolders in there for different pieces of equipment.
I keep adding to the same raw file generally but I still download it every day. I lost 10 hours of work and never want that to happen again. Raw files are small so it isn't a burden to have a bunch of copies of the same file (which gets bigger each day).