..that means it was a good day.
I have a couple of DCs that have Spectra Precision (use to be TDS) installed on them. I favor them just out of personal preference, even though when they sold to Trimble some of their stuff took a turn.
Anyway, if I'm entering a distance on the DC for, just for example, an antenna height; even though the job is in feet, I can enter a distance in meters and simply place an "m" after it.
So rather than entering 6.56 for an instrument height in feet, I can simply enter "2m" an it records the height at 6.56 feet. Works on all the routines. Who knew?
I realize that probably doesn't astound many of you all...but this old fart thought it was pretty cool. B-)
Thank TDS for that feature. It was there prior to the Trimble acquisition.
maybe you knew it before , but thanks to parttimerz, you got to learn it all over again like it was new....:-$
> So rather than entering 6.56 for an instrument height in feet, I can simply enter "2m" an it records the height at 6.56 feet. Works on all the routines. Who knew?
That's the way my (ancient) Trimble TSC1 operates. So, are you saying that the other folks copied this feature from Trimble?
Leica as well..
Works in Carlson SurvCE, too. I don't know who the credit originally goes to.