Hi all,
I am working on a project in which I was given the Trimble TSC3 controller and the R8 antenna to collect continuous points of an area; points will be collected in 1 second intervals. I need the timestamp of each point as it will be related back to another device collecting information at the same time. Problem is, I cannot find a way to extract the timestamp into a file. I can see each point has an associated timestamp when going into the Point Manager setting, but when trying to extract it I don't have an option to include this.
I do not have access to the Business Office software, but do have access to Pathfinder Office. I've tried using some of Trimble's free software packages, but found them to be very buggy.
I've been struggling with this for a few days now and haven't had any luck so far. I feel like this should be a pretty basic thing to do; all I need is the coordinates and the time they were recorded in a .csv. I have a few more ideas that I will try out tomorrow. But in the meantime, does anyone here have experience using this hardware/software or have any advice on how to accomplish what I need?
Thanks!
> ...I do not have access to the Business Office software, but do have access to Pathfinder Office....
I am not familiar with Pathfinder, is that the software on the controller? Can you find a file named something like yadayadayada-record.txt ? A record.txt can be imported into scs data manager and a custom report ran with any of the data that you want then copy and pasted into a csv
> > ...I do not have access to the Business Office software, but do have access to Pathfinder Office....
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> I am not familiar with Pathfinder, is that the software on the controller? Can you find a file named something like yadayadayada-record.txt ? A record.txt can be imported into scs data manager and a custom report ran with any of the data that you want then copy and pasted into a csv
Pathfinder is for the computer, it works pretty well for the Juno units. It'll read .ssf, .cor, .phs, and .imp files. The TSC3 runs the SCS900 Site Controller software and holds everything in the .job file format. I can export this data to a variety of formats but haven't been able to find one that works for me yet.
I wasn't able to find a record.txt, but thank you for that information. It did give me another idea to try out. I'll let you know how it goes.
Although you didn't help me directly, you did lead me in the right direction. Thanks!
I wasn't able to find a record.txt, but while searching for it I did find the folder than contained the different export format codes. I had remembered this webpage contained many different export formats, so I downloaded one that had a timestamp and pasted it into that folder. It worked! It's not perfect, as it doesn't contain the actually xyz coordinates, but that is nothing a simple join with a .csv can't fix. Additionally, it looks like I can edit a code to fit my needs; I may look into that.
There may be better ways to do all of this, but with the resources I had, this works just fine. Hopefully this will help others in a similar situation.
Thanks again!
