Set points on the face of the collar from the top, turn the prisms to face down and resect from the bottom. 3 glass at 120 degrees should be sufficien...

do it, I would like a look also

First I was Hopeful that I could help But then I got hit with the 404 Anyway, if you look around you may find the articles. I enjoyed punching them ...

Maybe next they can find someway to reduce the amount of my life I spend browsing for a folder.

Heavy duty to have alpha and numeric codes. Who uses codes for construction and who uses reporting for construction. I got good functionality out of L...

I have been surveying since 2001 and have never worked at a survey shop that did not reuse the point numbers on every job. Generally there is some ran...

Thanks for chiming in Norman, I had a feeling you would have some ideas. How do you guys handle folder names that contain lots of chronological data? ...

Thanks for chiming in, yes, a tremendous issue indeed. In terms of looking backwards, for sure I think that the days of old often had systems in place...

Grab a compass, plumb bob, hand level and a right angle prism and see what you can measure just with hand tools and a field book. The concept of meas...

So funny that I did not think to do it that way, sometimes being shown how to do something one way closes the mind to other paths. I really appreciate...

The way I would do it in Civil3D is to first make a surface defined by the points, then make a tin volume surface defined by the points surface and th...

Of course you can auto turn, depending on the application there will be some trial and error involved in finding the position you want to stake. The ...

Thanks for sharing about the tilting levels, I knew there had to be a better way for bridges.

I have worked and learned and enjoyed working on both one and two person crews. One thing I like about working alone is that I do not need to keep ano...