I first used Autocad in the mid 80s not for surveying decided to make a solar system to scale. (My Father worked at an Engineering firm and worked lon...

Would they delete old datasheets though? I can't imagine they would even if the information was bad. Maybe post it with a correction so that people th...

SOOO.... I figured it out on my own anyway. I come from Jersey and things are just different here. We have wide open roads, on ramps long enough...

Especially with that, what was it called, "Open and notorious" occupation of space they mention in the clauses for Adverse possession. A wall is prett...

There area number of DOT manuals available online. That will probably be your best free resource. Surprisingly, in all of my school work and resource...

It seems to me that our State Legislature passed a bill declaring a specific week as "Tax Free School Supplies Week". During that week the retailers ...

That stuff is hilarious.

I didn't see this mentioned, but the biggest improvement with SurvPC 7 is that the program is 64-bit....Every tablet I am running it on runs noticeabl...

I was doing this in stakeout mode, so no raw data processing. But I will heed your advice when setting control points and the like.

@toeknee I'm 99% sure you can average over multiple sessions with survpc 6. You just enter the existing point number in store points and you can avera...

I was a Fire Controlman in the US Navy, sort of like a floating artilleryman and the math was similar. A surveying buddy was a surveyor in the army a...

I use the TV to fall asleep. Shows that I have seen before work best as I can close my eyes and just listen. Most TVs have sleep timers too. 😉

I do not know what percentage of PLS's came from the military, but in my limited experience with with 5 companies, three LSs were former artillerymen....

Going back to the 5700, it supports independent operation as well. Have you tried the Trimble Cell phone app? Do not know if it supports ...

I eat and write Shacknasty, all other activities Non-Shacknasty. Mostly the same. quasi ambidextrous though. I have no problem writing on Lath b...

Okay fixed it. The download information is on page 30 and involves downloading an app from Trimble for retrieving the data. I think... might not b...

My last company used Leica, and we collimated at the start of every new project, and if the temperature changed more than 18 degrees. Current company...

Page 24 of the user manual

@holy-cow Oscar Zerk was for sure a cool guy, but whoever wrote "While still in his teens, he devised an electrically operated textile machine control...