@jimcox yeah I believe honestly it was the Navy that pushed for that option as I was involved with that as we were getting ready to purchase the sx10 ...

@pfirmst oh those are fun days. Now you can use N E and UP coords as a work around and was not a bad way to work as datum was honored to a degree and ...

@pfirmst yeah I remember playing with geomatics design a little. In a very simplified way the sx12 running Trimble access can orient via a plane and s...

@pfirmst now on that spatial analyzer software it’s not a surveying software but for metrology. So a radial arm scanner laser trackers scanners certai...

@pfirmst yeah some great tools for sure. Look up a software called Spatial anylizer . Great software and can be used with many total stations as well ...

@jimcox/p> here you go bud. I forget the ratios but it was like a certain percentage of nickel and alloy or something mixed and made them hold u...

@pfirmst Do you send your SMR’s off along with any other prisms to be checked and calibrated. When I was doing metrology work we were required to have...

This depends. Multipath signal to noise many things come into play and technically the statement one is better than the other depends on many factors....

@observer28 let me know if that exporting a dwg of points and media file works. I would just select a few points along with the media file in tbc and ...

@observer28 I had a project for USACE where every control point and property corner needed pics looking north east west south ne se sw nw and a direc...

So it can be done but I have no idea how. I made a custom report in TBC that placed all those photos on a document. Then I made a copy of the geotagge...

The corrections depending in addition to temp c/r etc. are either geopotential and or the orthometric. For navd 88 at the surface. It boils down to gr...

nos 34 for geopotential comps for geodetic leveling . the DINI was a carl Zies level I believe and like Trimble bought out the old geodometer/sp...

@ryancj31 TBC can do a least squares on the levels. If you had your DINI set up and C/R and have the project set up in the correct datum and all you s...

@peter-lothian That’s not the levels fault. I agree with Norman that in today’s world digital is king. However the digital level are more accurate mor...

@john-putnam it is a pretty neat app. A company we were teamed with there guys had that thing and made our photo reports much easier. It did take some...

Get a good Philly rod for short runs. I always had good luck with those for onsite work and occasional level run to a site. Heck even ran several few ...