I've always wondered why Autodesk never developed COGO and data collection software for field surveyors. Is it too late for them?

@chris-bouffard?ÿ I'm an ?ÿ la carte surveyor, so all this proprietary talk disturbs me. From my point of view, this stifles software development to ...

Welcome! We were discussing Australia and south azimuths the other day at work. If the line delineating north and south azimuths is the equator, what ...

@brad-ott?ÿ I remember all the times a contractor said "We need it now," only to come back days later to find our unused stakes.

@western-yankee?ÿ I also tell the party chief "Back down to 4.98.", or whatever, when the rodman lowers the rod all the way down. The party chief sta...

@rover83?ÿ I found an interesting webpage concerning collimation. What I find interesting about it is that the software generates collimation repo...

Very sound advice!

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Another old post concerning this is?ÿ Total Station Check and Adjust routines I was actually in on the discussion! Different instrument manufacturer...

I was taught that a TS collimation routine collimated the TS to whoever was using it. In other words, everyone points (sights) differently, therefore ...

@leegreen?ÿ I appreciate your patience with my situation. We now have an understanding of how to make this work properly. I was able to create my own...

@350rocketmike This is our first experience using the collector for a 1:1 job. We understand, as Lee points out, that all parameters need to be set d...

I appreciate your level of motivation!

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