@chris-mills that's right. I've given details of the time, temp on the ground (no one in the masts) , clouds and humidity at the time of scanning to ...

Thanks for all the replies. Reflectorless isn't an option as the laser light beam is not a perfect circle and the exact angle point isn't the middle o...

I measure these powerlines sometimes with TLS. The pic below is 4 scans from a reigl vz400i. 10 minutes on site. It was to measure the distance betwee...

@jt50 i also get these sometimes, people are crazy!  

@hooks i don't need a new one soon, besides staking out and measuring the odd obsolete hidden corner point everything is done with a scanner. And no,...

@john-putnam construction staking is mostly with half day tarifs. Calculation before and plans what has been staked are on an hourly rate. Sometimes...

@hooks if you like to keep paying for the leica marketing machine, be my guest. A company where you have to pay seperate for functionality on a dc (r...

@bill93 it is the clients (or his architect, stability engineer,...) responsibility that the plans that are transferred are correct. we often find er...

I stake from plans i receive from my client and mention the e-mail and filenames on my plan i handout to my client. If i were to wait for signed plans...

Which headaches? I work with Sokkia for more than 7 years and have had no problems at all on construction sites.?ÿ

@hooks two (no three) words : Sokkia or Topcon

i'm glad i was born in the metric system ?????ÿ Bloody English, imperial, driving on the wrong side of the road,... ?????ÿ

that is almost all the time over here. The word xref into a surveyors plan is non existence. We have to check for ourselfs and discuss our findings wi...

I use a template dwg and xref the drawing in my template. Then i ncopy the necessary data to my template and ditch the xref. When everything is staked...

i started with a second-hand one and drove it till it fell apart. I thought of another second-hand one but wanted to be sure the bloddy thing starts i...

i have one for 7 years now and it still works great. It's heavy but does the job, only no Galileo but i use it in open spaces with good reception. Eve...

it needed to be done anyway but i would rather spend my sunday evening with my kids instead of a dirty construction site