It's (sadly) ironic that the Lahaina fires occurred literally days before this article was published: I'll just put my flame-retardant suit on (pun ...

Everyone is so different when it comes to surveying. So many guys say we shouldn’t use the mt1000 for anything other than rough topo and others say I’...

What are you measuring to say you can’t use the track mode for everything outside of control? I have shot control occasionally (by accident) with trac...

DXFs can do some weird things. They also don't support MTEXT, only DTEXT, for what it's worth. Most C3D users work with the former, so that might be a...

I would also suspect a maintenance agreement being out of date. The Installation Manager will look for the controller's license and grab the latest re...

Prisms generally have the constant physically printed on them, so I'm not sure why this comes up as often as it does. I think only the Leica offsets a...

I had zero background knowledge in that area before going after my Part 107, except for maybe doing AGIS surveys. I found the exam to be pretty easy a...

Why should we be forced to sit in classes that cover what we already had to know to pass the exam, or, to learn other things in areas of practice that...

This usually happens on export to JXL. You can either export to an earlier JXL version (try something like 6.20) and try importing that, or you can si...

No kidding. If someone doesn't want to learn and keep up with their profession, mandating hours isn't going to change that. They'll just sleep through...

We need to get a universally acceptable process for the math and science parts of the state survey laws like medicine etc, and stop dragging crap that...

What software do you use for post-processing? That will factor into things as well. With well-known brands, if a particular manufacturer has good deal...

We're citing one basis (singular) for all of our bearings (plural). Our statutes would seem to back this up: "The record of survey as required by RCW ...

In C3D, make a dummy surface with the polygon at 100-foot elevation, then use the Create Grid of Points command. That command forces you to make a rec...

Honestly I would just compute the grid points within the polygon, run the perimeter at 50 foot intervals, and not worry about whether or not they are ...

On a recent job one customer asked me for 2mm accuracy."Accuracy for all survey points shall be 0.01 foot." "Points must be surveyed to 0.01 feet." "A...

Yeah I'm with Mr. Cow on this one... Get the first topo done, don't worry about the 50-foot spacing but make sure you have enough density for it. Then...

If you already have the unit working with the data collector, all you need to to is enable the NMEA outputs: Configuration will depend upon the equip...

I think "projects commenced after XXXX date" means that if legacy projects pop up, they can and should be run in their existing system. If I revive a ...

The law shouldn’t have to spell out the specifics that a professional doing a survey denotes. Yup. Projections require a geodetic basis. If it's not c...