I am coming from Leica equipment and software and until today have never needed to know how to use the Trimble Business Center software that is installed on my computer. The long and short is that I need to compute a combined scale factor for a project I am working on.
In Leica, if I have the points on the screen, I can drag a window around the ones I want to use to calculate the CSF, right click and select "compute combined scale factor".
Is there a way to do this in TBC? It would be nice to figure out how to do this today but, if not, my TBC guru will be in tomorrow morning so it's not a life or death question.
Thanks.
AN
One way I was able to get the CSF out of TBS was to create a custom export and include the CSV attribute in a field and export as a .csv file. Then I go into excel and average all the points on my site to get an average, or use one from the primary control. I'm sure there is another way but that is one way to do it.
The way I do it is send the project over to TGO and in view you can check off the scale factor and it will show up for each point in the project on the screen. If you figure out how to do it in TBC let us know, I haven't figured it out yet.
Corpscon will do that for you too.
Thanks, Marc. That is an idea. I'm thinking I will have to average it myself to determine a project scale factor.
Hello Andy,
If you go to Project
Local Site Settings
From a field gathered point enter Northing, Easting, Elevation
Under the Ground Coordinates Field, check the box...Compute ground..
The ground scale factor will be in grey.
Be sure to cancel after.
This should give you some idea as to where you are.
rlshound
You can get the scale factors for any point(s). Under Reports Select "Points List". But first at the bottom of Reports there is a "Report Options." Under "Report Options" Select the "Points List" and set it to display the scale factors and any of the other options. Then Select the points you are interested in and run the "Points List" Report. If you know where you would like you CSF to be calculated input a point at that coordinate and your chosen elevation and it will give you the info in the "Points List" report.
> You can get the scale factors for any point(s). Under Reports Select "Points List". But first at the bottom of Reports there is a "Report Options." Under "Report Options" Select the "Points List" and set it to display the scale factors and any of the other options. Then Select the points you are interested in and run the "Points List" Report. If you know where you would like you CSF to be calculated input a point at that coordinate and your chosen elevation and it will give you the info in the "Points List" report.
Does the software provide an average scale factor of a selected set of points
or
Does the software provide a list of points (with each of the point listed displaying its scale factor) that the user must further manipulate in an external program to complete the desired task?
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It's just a points list with the individual values. There might be a way to average but I don't know how to do it. I never use or report a CSF (have no use for it). I use LDP's. So I never have use for the average but listing the scale factors for a point is part of how I design my LDP's. You can also get the convergence for every point in a listing.
Thanks for the information - cheers
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I go to project settings, view and set the points spreadsheet table view to show CSF. Then I do a new points table view and copy into a spreadsheet.
COMBINED SCALE FACTOR
Thanks LRDay; that was something I've been looking for!
I just haven't had the time to track it down and the help menu.....
From the file menu the Reports you can run a "Project Computation Report" which will give you everything you need.