Has anyone used the refline feature in Trimble access in a real world realistic way. I was wondering how it was used and was it practical. I keep thinking that it might be similar to the old wild T1000 routine where you could see from locating two points where you were perpendicular to said line and how far up the line. We used it on mortgage surveys and for adding or subtracting catching the sideline??s and setbacks from house corners with a tape and most were still hand drafted from our field notes. Was wondering if this routine could incorporate the old way and new way digitally in some way. Or if anyone has found a use for it. I plan on reading up on it and then trying things. I just trying to see if yall had used it.?ÿ
We have about 30 or so crews total, and I've only heard of a couple using this routine. Like you mentioned, I think the biggest benefit is that all points stored after setup are stored as station and offset to that initial line/points. You can manually modify the start station as well.
It's pretty versatile for certain staking routines, but I'm not a huge fan of it myself since it's essentially a two-point resection with no redundancy. Properly performed, it's fine but it can go sideways easily.
@rover83 Thank you. It is a routine for a narrow purpose I reckon. I started reading on it last night trying to figure out applications . I guess it could be used on a survey like staking property lines in rural area. Say you already confirmed the boundary and said client needed some new stakes set for building a fence line. You would be able to just set up between any two corners with or without coordinates for that purpose to do it and jump around the property as needed . If you could see those two corners. Or if staking a line and needed a quick way to do something because all your control was in accessible on a construction site for whatever reason. Just another tool in the toolbox. ?ÿI was looking at it at first for mortgage surveys and foundation cks for sidelines . But use to you could topo or measure a point and go to cogo after creating a line and see how any point was related to that line by station and offset. Don??t know if that is still available will have to do some testing I guess. I always like to try and figure out how all the routines work in a software package just encase a situation occurs where it might be handy as a check or more productive. ?ÿThank you.?ÿ