That's pretty well what we do. Dropbox for all survey related stuff. Change a job - syncedUpdate an Autocad routine - syncedetc, etc, etc
So what happens if you were robbed, or your place burnt down?Stat again from scratch I guess.
You can afford to lose 6 months of work?Why not just use 3 hard drives and rotate them every week or so? Hard drives are cheap.
I would recommend dropbox too.Then add a cheap server, and use it to backup the dropbox files too in case anything goes bacd with the cloud data. Our ...
Are you finding it to be slow?The single greatest improvement you can make to a computer these days is to use a SSD instead of a normal hard drive.
Yes and no.We have Windows systems that for all intents and purposes are "off the grid". They live in virtual machines on our Macs, and are considered...
45º doesn't have to be precise. You're controlling it via the 3 resected stations.This is pretty common practice. A lot of scanners can't be levelled ...
Mate of mine used to use a Leica 1200 with minecad as an ad-hoc CMS. The 1200 would be attached to a boom, upside down or right way up, and wheeled ou...
With most SSD's you're talking many years (as in over a decade), before you burn through the write capacity.SSDs are a no-brainer these days. Spinning...
It's calibrated to take into account the instrument axis difference, and the slope adjustment.It's a piece of cake to use.
We use scanning a lot. Probably on occasion getting up to 50% of our work.Most of the time it's used for jobs where conventional equipment can't do a ...
It's not LIDAR. It's photogrammetry, using overlapping photos from the video feed and input from the motion sensors to "hint". Impressive processing.
Yep. I run macs with Bootcamp or VMware fusion. Bootcamp for laser scan stuff. Fusion for everything else.I use 12d, 3d reshaper, cyclone, riscan, rhi...
Anyone who can prove dowsing works, can earn a very easy million bucks.It doesn't work.
Run traverse, making sure that enough marks are in the open to hit with the GPSSurvey as many points as feasible with gps, ensuring good coverage alon...
Leica, then Crain Trimax.But 99% of the time I'll use the Leicas in preference.PS. the GST20.
Wow. It's been a long time since I did that check.Yes. I'm pretty sure that's the case.
I use the Leica measuring doodad, especially if I'm after precise heights.If I am just using a tape measure, on a quick and dirty station setup, then ...
Contour everything, and if they want it into Revit, then you may have to look at giving them a file with just the contours on a very tight interval. (...
DIY Rod Truck Mount - w/rod, No magnetsAhh I see. We just have a two piece pole that can break down into 1m sections and then go across the back seat.
