Andy, You may be working in 'Standard' or single shot mode (small S beside the Total Station icon) It may be quicker for you to be in Track mode (sma...

@lurker That is not my understanding. In Active mode the instrument seeks the strongest signal from the diodes In Passive mode it seeks the strongest ...

Mike is quite correct in that it does take at least seven or eight seconds to switch the instrument from active to passive mode for a semi-active shot...

I've recently had the pleasure to review a range of tripods from the German brand 'Nedo' Those I looked at had wooden legs and double clamps. The sma...

So you are using a Leica instrument, measuring to a Trimble prism and recording with Access?

Great to hear you have something that works. I would be very keen to know what settings you ended up using. Also keen to understand your prism settin...

Hey, Strandly, Thanks for those two leads. I'm trying to get my head around them - when you talk about the 'join point box' are you thinking the one ...

A geoid is a model of the earth's surface It can be used as a vertical datum A plane can also be used as a vertical datum

Latency is also the top of my list of guesses. Maybe also how far the Rover is from the 'base station' used affecting the estimated and achieved accur...

Good rule of thumb is to use all autolock or all manual pointing in the same round - dont mix and match. Are you working to an MT1000 prism in active...

Unscrew the black cap at the top of the lower section Withdraw the upper shaft At the base of that is a cone Tighten or loosen the cone on the lock...

@rich-roberge Which ever way you do go make sure you get some training and support investing a couple of days will both save time and money, smooth...

@jullieta I do not know Leica, so this is a bit of a guess, but... Sometimes the database connection and import support is done via external librari...

@hootsmcgoots Like it or not, Autodesk and Civil3D are far and away the biggest players in the market. Their wont be many engineering firms doing civ...

@norman-oklahoma Yup, Trimble's DiNi can do that too

I'm old enough (just) to have started out doing surveys with a steel band. That's before EDM was common, let alone GNSS. I've calc'd just one job wi...

It is my understanding that Google Earth does NOT use WGS84. It uses a bastardised version thereof called Spherical Mercator - the EPSG code is 3857....