@jimcox Thanks Jim, I'll ask about it for the SX12, this job we had two static GPS stations, a level and two Topcon GLS scanners, would be good if Access worked with Topcon scanner's though ;), the first day we set up our GPS and control network using the scanners to shoot prisms, works like a slow 3" non-robotic total station, that can only do one face and has limited vertical range, approx. 45 degrees up and down I think. We capture control scans from survey tripods, the second day, putting the scanners on carbon fibre tripods, turning off the level compensators and just hitting the scan button, moving the scanner and hitting the button again, rinse repeat, got about 200 scans on the second day. We then transform the coordinates and register the control scans (also transforming the scans for level) then register all the free scans to the control scans.
Topcon has the scanner setup so you have to enter the station number for each scan position, we wrote some software to save time in the field, we prefix the station name with "free", which represents a cluster of scans that will register cloud to cloud, so we don't have to waste time typing in station names, the software breaks out all the free scans into their own "free#-#" stations before we import them for registration. We move the scanner as soon as it finishes scanning, put it down and hit the button and it starts the next scan, minimum time lost, maximum productivity, we can't do any window scans with that method, but we're just filling in and getting plenty of coverage. We tend to cluster a bunch of free scans around each control scan station, which is levelled and measured using prisms.
I would have liked to have the SX12 on that job to shoot prisms, but we were limited on equipment we could take with us...