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Excel
Programmed calculator.
and our licensed surveyor is an ol’ timer that doesn’t use CAD and wants to just be able to enter the xy coordinates of the points to make sure that the bearing and distances created in CAD are correct.
So he trusts cad to generate the right coordinates but not to label the line correctly? 🙄🤦♂️
Great online survey calculator, even stores points.
Q-COGO looks interesting. And I second the excel suggestion. Nevertheless, both of these options will require some learning on your bosses part. I think that the real best option here is to learn just enough about CAD to be able to draw a line between coordinate points and query it. Each of those options is roughly an equal effort.
That’s an easy excel formula. It’s an inverse. But some states I know North Carolina geodetic survey has an inverse calculator on one of the web browsers. If you have the coordinates I would just make a custom export out of TBC and write a little macro to pull them in for him and just have the math formulas do the rest. If you own Trimble access reach out to your dealer and have the Trimble access emulator installed on his computer. Then export the points he needs to a csv file and he can link or import in the emulator just like you do in field and do the inverse. The emulator is free.
My data collector does coordinate geometry (COGO) calculations. I could make a coordinate file, upload it and use the data collector inverse routine if I didn't already trust that my CAD system is doing it correctly.
How does he do it now?
I started with an HP calculator.
Older surveyors started with 8 place table books and slide rule or Curta's.
So, I'm assuming he wants a plug in way to do it, that would be CAD.
If that's not good, then Excel.
It's basic checkbook math and trig functions.
So he trusts cad to generate the right coordinates but not to label the line correctly?
Well, the drafting process can leave incorrect labels, depending on the workflow. He has probably been burned before. That said, the process can also include a closure report, and he could use that report to follow every line in the entire map. This is standard on all plats, in our office, but not on all surveys. But in any case, a report can be generated.
