Leica Captivate - Stake to the line

I have not used captivate, but in smartworx you would go Reference Line -measure to line- And then shoot for perp distance to zero for the CL, or whatever radius for marking out the ellipse.

Also know that in configure you can change to "toward line/arc" if you are in stake. It comes in handy sometimes.?ÿ

@party-chef

As long as you purchased Stakeout+

You gotta pay to play, unlike most I thought the old model was neat. Buy what you need and leave the rest, heck for two hundred bucks you could buy reference plane and do quite a bit of what folks buy a whole scanner and associate soft to do.

But I get it, I think they dropped that model now and sell the soft all in one.?ÿ

@party-chef

Oh, wasn't complaining - if you're responding to me.?ÿ Just that I worked for a place where we had a bunch of units, and I think that one or two didn't have anything extra.?ÿ And it would suck when you grabbed one without the stake to line option.

@jph

Gotcha, there was a lot of hate for that pricing system.

That, poor support literature, and salespeople pushing Carlson turned a lot of users away from Leica soft, which is unfortunate.

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If you are trying to simply get on line you have 3 choices with out the full roading app.

First you can use measure line which simply tell you your current station and offset.?ÿ Next you can change the to the point direction to reference the line being staked.?ÿ This is done under settings in the app.?ÿ Finally you can se the user defined display to show current station information.?ÿ

@party-chef

I've never tried Carlson GPS, but I'm betting that they made it much more user-friendly than Leica.

I haven't used any field equipment in years, but Leica always made staking to a line ridiculously difficult.?ÿ

@aliquot

I'll mostly agree.?ÿ But once you got used to the software, it wasn't so awkward.?ÿ Carlson makes it so most surveyors can figure things out, very intuitive.?ÿ

I think that the Leica people are so smart that they've gone full circle, and can't conceive of how the rest of us process things.?ÿ

Thanks everybody, I will get the guys to play with the configuration. In the meantime I might create a surface for each line for finding grade and use the line for a reference alignment. More office time for me but faster for the field crews.?ÿ

@aliquot

I've got an old TCRP1203 sitting in my hallway that disagrees.

@mjs

Also in smartworx but dunno about the new stuff is Shift-Position 2D or 3D. If you wanted to get even deeper you could create an alignment in Road Runner and mess with that a little, in the right environment there are some tricks with predictive turning that are pretty impressive. Like all soft it is hard to say if the good features are still around, I used VIVA for about a week and had to switch back to guns running Smartworx to do what I wanted to to.?ÿ

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Perp Distance is pretty neat though, fun to stake out an ellipse for a skewed TBM launch ring or just for radius staking?ÿ for SEM or whatever.

Good God at the complaining.?ÿ

Captivate's base license is actually less expensive then most. You add applications as needed. Ref line is one of those app.?ÿ Call your dealer, give him your serial number. It'll cost you a few hundred bucks and you'll be good to go.?ÿ

Things are only hard if you make them hard.?ÿ

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Posted by: @cwlawley

Things are only hard if you make them hard.?ÿ

@cwlawley

No one's complaining, we're just discussing, with a little bit of bitching.?ÿ Everyone does it, I bet you do too