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1. There are seven options for storing points These options are explained further in the Options section Default on off settings for the options can be saved in the Setup command Notes Notes are descriptions in addition to the standard 32 character that can be stored with the Page 4 24 Data Collection GPS point An unlimited number of notes can be entered one line at a time RMS or CEP This option stores the horizontal and vertical RMS or CEP values in the note field Beep This option makes a double beep when the point is stored to the coordinate file 1 1 Y 5023 43 X 5302 19 Z 994 32 N 1 31 E 1 28 AZ 45 2 DIST 1 42 1 1 Y 5023 43 X 5302 19 Z 994 32 425 15 L1 42 AZ 45 2 DIST 1 42 Centerline Stakeout GIS This option stores additional descriptions for user defined fields Store RodHt This option stores the current rod height in the note field for the point Point Data This option stores the point number northing easting elevation and description in the note file Time Date This option stores the time and date as read from your computer system for each point in the note file Rod Height You may modify the height of your rover rod here Data Collection GPS Page 4 25 StakeOut S Stakeout allows you to locate a coordinate out in the field A bull s eye locator shows your current position as an arrow and the target point as the center of the bull s eye The directio
2. HARDWARE INFO lt UPDATE AND EXIT gt lt EXIT WITHOUT UPDAT gt RE ER RE ET PURE PRESS ENTER TO MODIFY A7 TO SELECT NEXT ITEM FIGURE 1 3 9800 One of the difference between the 9500 and the 9800 is the setup program Although many of the same options are present the program itself is quite different The main screen for the 9800 setup program looks like the one in figure 1 3 Use the up and down arrows to move to different editable fields Press enter when you ve highlighted a field you wish to modify The screen timeout value is similar to that for the Dap 9500 The backlight will time out when the screen times out To modify the automatic power shutoff arrow down to Power Management and press enter The first field ofthe next screen is the Power Off Delay time This is also a good place to check your current battery status When you have finished chang ing your settings arrow key down to Update and Exit and press enter The reboot sequence for the Dap 9800 is F1 0 9 all at once for about 3 seconds To toggle the caps lock on and off press the blue key follow by the number 0 this also works for the 9500 Default File Transfer All MicroFlex Dap computers come with a program called COM EXE installed in the C drive You will also find a copy ofthis program on your SurvStar installation disk If you intend to use COM for file transfer you will need to use this file on the PC end as well The com program is also used by the S
3. Radial Stakeout can be used to determine point to point angles For example if you wanted the acute angle formed by 7 to 13 to 18 just call 13 the setup 18 the backsight and foresight point 7 Radial stakeout can be used to stakeout curves from any setup or backsight Conventional curve stakeout is to set up on the PC and turn deflection angles from the PI Distances are chained from station to station around the curve To use Radial Stakeout set up on the PC backsight the PI and turn angles right to the calculated station points This simulates the deflection angles and provides long chord distances to the target points To obtain the short chord simply inverse from one curve station point to the next and include that inversed distance on the printout given to the field crew Figure 6 24 outlines this procedure Page 6 62 SurvCOGO LEGEND e STATION POINTS ES NOTE RADIAL STAKEDUT COMPUTES THE ANGLE RIGHT AND DISTANCE LONG CHORD o TO ANY POINT ON CURVE USE INVERSE TO 3 CALCULATE SHORT CHORDS IF MEASURING WITH CHAIN FIGURE 6 24 RADIAL STAKEOUT HORIZONTAL CURVES CONVENTIONAL APPROACH SET UP ON PC POINT 5 BACKSIGHT PI POINT 7 COMPUTE ANGLES RIGHT MEASURE SHORT CHORDS We will create the above layout using the 400 circle configuration config item 20 set to MZ and config item 24 set to AZ E ENTER amp ASSIGN POINT NUMBER 6 INPUTNORTHING 5000 EASTING 5000 POINTNUMBER T TRAVERSE ROUTIN
4. i FIGURE 6 18 Page 6 48 SurvCOGO After at least 2 points are calculated on each tangent line intersect the tangents to determine the PI or point ofintersection Then inscribe each ofthe curves using HC option 5 based on either desired radius or tangent length Select appropriate roadway width and calculate all right of way offset points atthe same time Reverse and compound curves can be inscribed by making the sum ofthe tangent lengths equal to the inversed distance between the PI points Inverse and SideShot Inverse I Application To obtain the bearing azimuth and distance from one point to another To establish a backsight from which to turn angles to theright angles to the left and deflection angles To establish a tangent bearing from which to enter a curve to the left or right using horizontal curve option 1 Features There are two types of inversing 1 Direct inversing from point to point whereby the program moves from the first point to the second point and holds the backsight for possible angle turning 2 Sideshot inversing in which the programremains on the first point and subsequent points are inversed from the first point with bearings and distances displayed Procedure Press I for Inverse at the main COGO menu or any first prompt in the major COGO routines Enter the point number desired and the program prints the bearing and distance to the new point from the point you had just occupied If configuration it
5. CD This command changes the current working directory In the example above both DATA and SURVSTAR are directories denoted by the lt DIR gt next to their name ex A gt CD DATA result A DATA gt note some data collectors do not display the current working directory in the prompt so the result may just look like A gt To move up one directory is used to denote previous directory ex A DATA gt CD result A gt DEL This command will delete a file from the data collector ex A DATA gt DEL MY JOB CRD result The file my job crd is permanently removed from the data collector COPY This command can be used to copy a file to a file of a different name or to a different directory Type the original file name followed by a space followed by the destination file name ex A DATA gt COPY MY JOB CRD MY JOB BAK result Creates a new file called my job bak identical to the file my job crd G SurvStar Menu Structure GPS Align Local Crds Calculator Elev Difference File Utilities GPS Monitor Store Point Job Options Road Work Stakeout Point Add Grid File Satellite View General Options Enter Coordinates Delete Triangulation File Alignment Options By Point Number Edit Template File Point Store Options Enter Station Offset Load Stakeout Options By Centerline View Laser Gun Options Point on Line On Rod
6. RADIUS 3 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt R PT I DELTA A ARC T TANGENT 4 The program then asks whether to calculate station coordinates and then prints curve data If the radii from 2 to 3 and from 3 to 4 differ beyond the acceptable tolerance of 0 02 the program will display RADII NOT EQUAL BY 4 51 or whatever difference exists If the radii are within tolerance the radius from the PC to the radius point governs the calculation Ifthe PT is entered the program calculates the curve data If any of the other options are selected the program will calculate the new point For example a delta angle would be entered as 114 53 for 14 degrees and 53 minutes or 14 53 grads A tangent of 117 51 would be entered as T117 51 Horizontal Curve Option 5 Option 5 is used to calculate the PC and PT when the tangent lines are known This option is sometimes referred to as inscribing the curve The user knows the tangent lines and therefore the delta angle The curve is then inscribed or laid in based on either the radius length tangent length or arc length The inscribed curve will always have a delta angle less than 180 degrees or less than 200 using the 400 circle Page 6 46 SurvCOGO OPTION 5 KNOUN PI POINT BACKTANGENT POINT AND FORWARD TANGENT POINT KNOWN BACKTANGENT POINT 1 PI PT 5 AND FORWARD TANGENT POINT 10 1 CALCULATES PC 2 PT AND PC PT OFFSET POINTS 6 TO 9 3 10 FIGURE 6 17 Press HC and sele
7. View Screen V Application To view points on the screen and to conduct screen verify linear areas See Chapter 3 Pages 3 2 to 3 4 for full description Page 6 92 SurvCOGO SurvCOGO Page 6 93 A Instrument Communications Settings Instrument Baud Parity Bits Stop Zeiss 50 Zeiss RL Zeiss 4 Topcon All Nikon Geodimeter Leica TCA1100 All GPS 9600 None 8 1 10 Instructions for Using Pacific Crest Radios with Novatel Before going out in the field use the REMCONF EXE program from Pacific Crest to set each radio to Transparent mode This is the default so if you are receiving new radios it may not be necessary to do this You may however want to make yourself aware of which channel numbers and frequencies you have available to you on each radio Connect the radio modems to the Base and Rover receivers Then connect the data collector to the NovAtel and start SurvStar To change the radio channel while running SurvStar go to the SetUp menu Make sure that the Station Type Rover or Base is set correctly Select option 10 Set Radio Chan nel Itis recommended that you change the Base radio first It is also recommended that when changing the Rover radio you disconnect the radio antenna or disconnect the base radio temporarily from the base This is to decrease outside interference that may hinder the communication between SurvStar and the radio You will see the following message on your data collecto
8. 0 Status Connected to remote machine Delete Set Path Make Directory Remove Directory Connect d Options Quit FIGURE 3 5 delete an existing directory from either computer by using the Make Directory and Remove Directory buttons Click on the file you wish to transfer and you will see it highlighted in the screen You may select multiple files at once by holding the Ctrl key and clicking on additional file names Once you have highlighted your files simply click the Transfer button to copy them from one machine to the other Once the transfer is complete the window shown in figure 3 6 will appear If you do not get this message the transfer was not successful Check all your cables COM Port settings and available Disk Space displayed on the File Transfer Utility screen File Transfer Complete FIGURE 3 6 General Functions Page 3 13 You may also choose to Delete highlighted files To avoid accidental deletion of files ensure that the Confirm Delete prompt is setto YES Finally when you have finished your file transfer session click Quit to return to the SurvCADD or Carlson Survey program If you plan to use the coordinate file you just downloaded don t forget to use the Set CooRDinate File function under the Points or Pnts menu File Manager FM File Size 1 02261999 CRD 1160 2 02261999 DAT 163 3 02261999 NOT 5238 4 02261999 RAW 528 1784523 bytes free ESC Exit F1 More F2 Del The File
9. 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 DD NE 41 DEG 28 MIN 41 SEC 190 00 FEET 3 10142 3497 10125 8434 DD SE 73 DEG 21 MIN 41 SEC 270 00 FEET 2 10065 0398 10384 5385 DD 2 10065 0398 10384 5385 DD SW 54 DEG 09 MIN 41 SEC 270 00 FEET 4 9906 9538 10165 6576 DD NW 60 DEG 40 MIN 41 SEC 190 00 FEET 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 The PT 1 and PT 2 prompts are the transfer prompts within the DD routine Distance Distance Intersect can be used to calculate tangent lines to a circle Inthe example of Fig 3 32 points 1 3 4 and 5 are known along with the radius of 50 To calculate tangent intersects at 6 and 7 use letter T as the unknown tangent length distance Entries are shown below Page 6 76 SurvCOGO Solution for PT 6 PT 123 DISTANCE FROM PT 1 DISTANCE T PT 2 5 DISTANCE FROM PT 2 DISTANCE 50 PT OF INTERSECT PT 6 Solution for PT 7 PT 1 5 DISTANCE FROM PT 1 DISTANCE 50 PT 2 4 DIST FROM PT 2 DISTANCE T PT 4 OF INTERSECT PT 7 The point defined distance convention of 7 8 the distance of 7 to 8 e M along with arithmetic operators x apply to Distance Distance Intersect s 90 00 77777 200 00 LOT N 81 18 23 W 194 58 FIGURE 6 32 Offset Routines OF Application The right of way offset routine sometimes called the parallel offset routine is useful forcalculating right of way lines based on point to point centerlines For example the centerline points ofa farmro
10. DATADRIVE 4 SDATA DATA SUBDIRECTORY 5 C PROGRAM DRIVE 6 PROGRAM SUBDIRECTORY 7 C C ARLSON 8 1 GRID SCALE SEA LEVEL FACTOR 9 5 TAB FOR PT LINE SKIP FOR PT IE 6 Y 10 36 TAB FOR NORTHING UNITS 11 48 TAB FOR EASTING UNITS 12 61 TAB FOR ELEVATION UNITS 13 10 TAB FOR BEARING QUADRANT 14 13 TAB FOR DEGREE UNITS 15 24 TAB FOR DASH IF ANY 16 25 TAB FOR DASH DISTANCE 17 N EXTRA PRECISION PRINTOUTS Y OR N 18 N DESCRIPTION TEXT IE DEG MIN SEC Y N 19 1 9600 PLOTTER PORT BAUD RATE 20 FZ FEET METERS VERTICAL ZENITH E amp A 1 5000 0000 5000 0000 1000 00 BENCHMARK TRAV 2 SW 5421 00 294 00 4828 6450 4761 0947 986 15 IRON PIN SurvCOGO Page 6 3 TABLE 6 3 ENGLISH 2 LINE CONFIGURATION ITEM 1 Q 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 E amp A 1 TRAV NW 131 ITEM 1 2 3 Page 6 4 STATUS CONFIGURATION IBME COMPUTER EP PRINTER C DATA DRIVE SDATA DATA SUBDIRECTORY C PROGRAM DRIVE PROGRAM SUBDIRECTORY C lt C gt ARLSON 1 GRID SCALE SEA LEVEL FACTOR 6 y TAB FOR PT LINE SKIP FOR PT IE 6 Y 15 TAB FOR NORTHING UNITS 29 TAB FOR EASTING UNITS 43 TAB FOR ELEVATION UNITS 8 TAB FOR BEARING QUADRANT 13 TAB FOR DEGREE UNITS 37 TAB FOR DASH IF ANY 39 TAB FOR DISTANCE Y EXTRA PRECISION PRINTOUTS Y Y DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IE DEG MIN SEC Y N 1 9600 PLOTTER PORT BAUD RATE FZ FEET METERS
11. PEL Lt O comen TRAVERSE LINE REFERENCE LINE NOTE POINT NUMBERS ARE CIRCLED FIGURE 6 3 Suppose we wish to enter the traverse shown in Figure 6 3 Example Entries beginning with Enter amp Assign At the main menu prompt press E E ENTER amp ASSIGN POINT NUMBER lt 1 gt 1 INPUTNORTHING 5000 SurvCOGO Page 6 11 EASTING 5000 ELEVATION 0 DESCRIPTION GR Resulting Printout E amp A POINT 1 5000 0000 5000 0000 0 00 GR this second line displays elevation and description POINT NUMBER lt 2 gt TOFF try this to turn off text POINT NUMBER 2 T transfers directly to traverse TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE CODE lt gt 1 represents northeast ANGLE BEARING gt 45 2315 DISTANCE 195 46 POINT NUMBER lt 2 gt 2 Resulting Printout TRV NE 45 23 15 195 46 TO POINT 2 5136 2732 5139 1427 ANGLE CODE lt 1 gt 7 represents angle to the right ANGLE BEARING lt 45 2315 gt 180 3 180 deg 30 min Trailing zeros can be omitted DISTANCE 200 02 POINT NUMBER 32 3 Resulting Printout TRV NE 455315 200 02 TO POINT 3 5276 5010 5282 7519 ANGLE CODE lt 7 gt 6 Page 6 12 SurvCOGO ANGLE BEARING lt 180 3 gt 145 1517 DISTANCE 307 24 POINT NUMBER lt 4 gt Enter for 4 Resulting Printout TRV NE 80 3758 307 24 TO POINT 4 5326 5079 5585 8950 ANGLE CODE lt 6 gt 9 ANGLE BEARING lt 145 1517 gt 10 DISTANCE 251 72 POINT NUMBER 52 Enter fo
12. RADIUS POINT 3 DELTA ANGLE IDD MMSS Page 6 88 SurvCOGO OR ARC A OR TANGENT T A500 PT OF TANGENCY PT 4 CREATE COORDS ALONG CURVE Y lt N gt Enter Curve data is then printed followed by the prompt MENU ITEM T for traverse remember that you are on the PT backsighting the radius point so an angle to the left of 90 degrees will proceed on the tangent the final 200 feet TRAVERSE ROUTINE ANGLE CODE lt 1 gt 6 ANGLE BEARING 55 35 90 DISTANCE 200 POINT NUMBER lt 5 gt 5 Now that we have the point numbers established we can go directly tomenu option SN for stationing ANGLE CODE lt 6 gt SN CENTERLINE STATIONING USE PC7 TO BEGIN CURVE AT POINT 7 STARTING STATION 0 in our example but it could be 1500 or any other value STARTING POINT 1 NEXT PT 0 TO END PC2 RADIUS 7 3 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt Enter PT OF TANGENCY 4 Curve data is then displayed NEXT PT 0 TO END 5 NEXT PT 0 TO END 0 1 PRINT CENTERLINE FILE 2 STORE FILE TO DISK 0 RETURN TO MENU SurvCOGO Page 6 89 2 FILE NAME ROADWAY do not enter an extension CL will be used automatically 1 PRINT CENTERLINE FILE 2 STORE FILE TO DISK 0 RETURN TO MENU 1 PT STATION DESCRIPTION 1 0 POINT ON LINE 2 300 POINT OF CURVATURE 3 RADIUSPT 47 4447 DELTA ANGLE DD MMSS 4 800 POINTOFTANGENCY 5 1000 POINT ON LINE This centerline file can then be recalled within
13. Solution There could be a conflicting setting in your gps ini file i e Com Port set to 1 instead of 2 From dos go into the SurvStar directory and delete the gps ini file SurvStar will create a new default file when you re enter the program Problem The Disk Full Error Message Appears Solution You have run out of disk space and need to free some up by deleting old files One common hiding spot of old data is the A Novatel Deleted directory Here you will find projects that were deleted through NovAtel s data collection program They weren t really deleted just moved to this folder so that you can undelete them later From dos change to this directory and delete any files you feel you will no longer need Also from within SurvStar you can delete old SurvStar files From the File Utilities menu choose the File Manager Type F2 followed by the number of the file you wish to delete Type Y to confirm the deletion Your disk space remaining will be displayed in this window Common DOS Commands DIR This command lists all files in the current working directory Also displayed will be the date and size of each file along with the number of bytes in the current directory and the number of free bytes remaining on that drive of the data collector ex A gt DIR result Volume in drive A has no label Directory of A DATA lt DIR gt 01 08 99 4 56p SURVSTAR lt DIR gt 01 08 99 4 56p STAR BAT 76 01 18 99 5 12p
14. Station 60 0 Press Enter CL offset Delta Distance 4 0 To locate the offset point the bull s eye stakeout is used After the offset point 1s reached the program reports the offset point station offset elevation and the horizontal and vertical distances from the offset point to the catch point and from the catch point through the template points Page 4 32 Data Collection GPS Cutsheet Stakeout CS This command does a bull s eye stakeout of points The horizontal x y point position comes from a user specified station and offset along a centerline file cl The elevation of the stakeout point is calculated for the station and offset using the road design files which include a profile file pro and template file tpl Superelevation sup and template transition files tpt can optionally be used A final section file can be used instead of the design files as explained in the Slope Staking command Cutsheet Stakeout starts with a list of files as shown below Use the arrow keys to select the files and press Enter when done Cutsheet Files Centerline DEMO CL Profile DEMO PRO Template DEMO TPL Superelv None Tpl Trans None Final Sect None Next the program prompts for a Vertical Offset For example if you want to stakeout a subgrade that is one foot lower then enter 1 0 for the Vertical Offset Then you enter the Station Design Offset and Stake Offset The Design Offset is where the stake point
15. Utilities menu Consider another generic ASCII file having the form SMITH TXT 4950 23 10147 19 18 427 91 space 4970 18 10107 23 18 426 52 separators 5017 33 10214 98 17 430 03 X y code elev ec ec In this case answer prompts as follows Full Name of Text File SMITH TXT Number of Header Lines to Ignore 07 Enter File Preview 4950 23 10147 19 18 427 91 1 B Y X Z D 2 PYXZD 3 P Y X Z 4 PYXZ 5 X Y Z 6 Other File Format 6 Enter Format X Y D Z Here because the file format does not match any of the 5 basic formats we need to enter the file format manually using any combination of P X Y Z D space and comma General Functions Page 3 7 Offset to Point Numbers 0 20 Write Text File WT Application To write out an ASCII file with TXT extension of coordinates for use by third party software Procedure Select menu option WT or 5 The program prompts as follows Write Text File Format Options 1 PT N E Z TEXT 2 PT N E Z TEXT Choice 1 Enter Choices are either comma or space deliminated The default is comma deliminated Range of points to write lt All gt Enter Here you may enter a range of points from the current coordinate file to write to a text file This prompt is answered exactly as it would be in the List Points routine see page 3 2 Press enter to select all points Name for New Text File GREEN This will output a file named GREEN TXT to
16. When traversing reverse all entries Enter the instrument height as the target height and vice versa Enter the vertical difference as 17 SurvCOGO Page 6 37 15 Then enter subsequent foresights in normal fashion You can think ofthe various elevation prompts as tools to be used in any manner desired Horizontal Curves HC Application The Horizontal Curveroutine is used for calculating existing curves from plan view data and for designing curves for roads subdivision streets and adjoining property lines Features Horizontal curves are calculated by 5 distinct methods The option is provided to calculate station points along the curve for stakeout purposes The program will print the curve data after calculation Horizontal curve options 1 and 2 require that you move to the PC within the traverse orinverseroutines entering the PC pointinthe form PC7 for PC at point 7 Horizontal curve options 3to 5 may beentered by pressing menuitem HC Horizontal curve option 4 can be activated either by pressing HC or by using the PC prefix for the PC point number after traverse or inverse Curve option 5 will additionally calculate offset points to the PC and PT such as begin curve and end curve points on the right of way parallel to centerline The 5 horizontal curve options are shown in Figure 6 13 Page 6 38 SurvCOGO HORIZONTAL CURUE OPTIONS KNOWN PTS 1 AND 2 RADIUS LENGTH DELTA ANGLE OR ARC LENGTH 2 OPTION 1 CURUE LEFT RIGHT
17. any form of cul de sac or street intersection to be calculated quickly Page 6 74 SurvCOGO Distance Distance Intersect DD Application Sometimes called arc arc intersect or circle circle intersect this routine calculates the intersect of two lines with discrete distances radiating from two points Features The program calculates one of two solutions The clockwise solutionis calculated The clockwise solution is the intersect point that would cause the user to turn right if going from the first base point to the intersect point to the second base point Reversing the order of entry of the base points calculates the other solution Procedure Enter DD Refer to Figure 6 3 1 Consider point 1 and point 2 as the center point of circles The known distance can be viewed as aradius Ifthe sum ofthe radii is less than the distance between point 1 and point 2 the circles will not intersect The program will print NO SOLUTION and start at the top of the DD routine If one radius is so large that it encloses the second circle without intersecting it the program also will print NO SOLUTION end PT FIGURE 6 31 SurvCOGO Page 6 75 Prompting is as follows PT 1 PT 2 DISTANCEFROM PT 1 DISTANCE 190 PT 22 2 DISTANCE FROM PT 2 DISTANCE 270 PT 4 OF INTERSECT PT 3 PT 22 DISTANCE FROM PT 1 DISTANCE 270 PT 271 DISTANCE FROM PT 2 PT 4 OF INTERSECT PT 4 Printout 2 line format
18. arrow keys to highlight the point number and enter a different point number if you wish The cursor starts out in the Description field You may enter a description for the new point either manually or by picking from a predefined code list use the CODE option When you have finished entering a description press the return key and the READ option is highlighted Press enter again to read the GPS position data The Northing Easting and Elevation fields are filled in automatically Horizontal and vertical RMS values are also displayed If the RMS values are below the preset RMS tolerance STORE is highlighted One more enter key and the point is stored Ifthe RMS values are higher than the tolerance READ remains highlighted and you may continue to read the GPS position until satis factory RMS values are reached After the point is stored the cursor moves back up the description field and the point number northing easting and elevation values are reset Continue this process until you have finished storing points then press ESC to return back to the Point Store menu If you feel confident in your RMS or CEP values and your description will not be changing frequently you may opt to use the R amp S Read and Store option Use the arrow keys to highlight the R amp S spot on the screen Press enter once and SurvStar will read the GPS and store the point all in one step You may also use the F1 key to jump to the monitor screen at any time Auto Poi
19. each setup entry is simplified further since there is no need to traverse backsights once the initial backsight is entered The user simply traverses the first backsight using the negative zenith then enters all subsequent notes as if they were 2 D Only the prism question distinguishes the 3 D entry from normal 2 D entry The prism question can be eliminated by entering POFF It can be reactivated by entering PON ZENITH ANGLE HI METHOD INSTR HET INVERSE TRAVERSE TO OR ERA SETUP THEN SIDESHOT OR TRAVERSE FORVARD ELEVATIONS UP THE INSTR OUT THE SHOT DOWN THE TARGET TARGET HGT FIGURE 6 10 Method 2 HI Carrying Elevations forward from the Setup using vertical zenith angle and instrument and target heights This method is what most surveyors are accustomed to With the elevation of the setup known elevations are transferred to foresights by going up the instrument height out the shot and down the target Method 2 therefore requires known instrument and target heights knownsetupelevation and recorded zenith vertical angle Method 2 is activated by pressing HI at the main COGO menu Pressing M cancels the HI mode Figure 6 10 illustrates the use of the HI method Theprocedure isto first press HI Then get on the setup establishing the backsight by inverse or traverse if angle rights are to be used Then prompting will appear as follows ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 ANGLE BEARING 145 0614
20. grads A due south field shot would have an azimuth of 200 Angles are metric so that an azimuth of 195 9828 is 0 9828 of the way from 195 grads to 196 grads A zenith angle of 100 is a horizontal reading with 98 looking up and 102 looking down All scaling is units per unit The final letter in config item 20 controls the vertical angle There are three types of vertical angles 1 Zenith Angle where 0 is straight up and 180 or 200 in grads is straight down 2 Vertical Angle where 0 is horizontal 90 or 100 grads is straight up and 270 or 300 grads is straight down This is rarely seen in modern total stations 3 Nadir Angle where 0 is straight down and 180 200 in grads is straight up Page 6 6 SurvCOGO The program currently recognizes zenith and vertical angles The letter Z as in FZ sets zenith and V asin FV sets vertical Nadir angles can be entered as zenith angles except they should be entered as negatives for elevation work ITEM 21 ANGLE CODE MODE This item sets the prompting in Traverse and Sideshotroutines The three setting are ABC Fullangle bearing code prompting allowing the user to mix quadrant based traversing with azimuths angles to the right etc as identified by the angle code AZI Eliminates the angle bearing code prompt and assumes all bearing entries are in azimuth Reduces prompting when working in azimuths AR Eliminates the angle bearing code prompt and assumes all angle entries are ang
21. when naming the point number Then specify the radius length the direction of the curve left or right and the intersection or delta angle The program will calculate the radius point and point of tangency PT and then ask if you want to calculate station points along the curve Stations are calculated SurvCOGO Page 6 39 individually by even increment from the PC orby even station number ie 124 25 12 50 12475 at any interval 1e 25 We will follow through the calculation process in the example below LEGEND HORIZONTAL CURVE OPTION 4 CENTERLINE STATION ENTER POINT 1 4 CATCH BASIN TRAVERSE Ne7 52 13 E TO PC16 SPECIFY RADIUS AND DELTA 50 0 50 STATION 10400 N 198749 183 N 27 eri ee HESS gt DELTA 45 47 44 fi 500 23 FIGURE 6 14 E ENTER amp ASSIGN POINT NUMBER 11 INPUT NORTHING 128749 183 EASTING 529472 107 Printout E amp A 11 128749 183 529472 1070 POINT NUMBER T Page 6 40 SurvCOGO TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 4 ANGLE BEARING 27 5213 DISTANCE 50 POINT NUMBER 12 15 Printout TRAV 12 NW 27 52 13 50 00 128793 3834 529448 7334 TRAV 13 NW 27 52 13 100 00 128837 5838 529425 3599 TRAV 14 NW 27 52 13 150 00 128881 7843 529401 9863 TRAV 15 NW 27 52 13 200 00 128925 9847 529378 6127 ANGLE BEARING CODE 11 15 DISTANCE 12 46 POINT NUMBER PC16 The PC prefix is required for HC options 1 and 2 Printout TRAV 16 NW 27 52 13 12 46 128936 9994 529372
22. 1285 03 DESCRIPTION FENCEPOST POINTNUMBER You will continue to be prompted for point numbers until you enter M for the main menu or the command for another routine such as I for Inverse or T for Traverse If you enter another command you will go directly to that menu item This is what is meant by a command driven program The initial prompts of most COGO routines permit direct transfer to another menu item Within Enter amp Assign the POINT NUMBER prompt is the transfer prompt If point number 1 has already been stored and you attempt to enter it again it will re prompt POINT NUMBER 32 1 POINT NUMBER 3 Pointnumber 3 is the next available point You must re enter 1 to force the program to accept point one as long as point protect the default condition is on You can turn off point protect by going to File Adjustment FA item 6 This toggles off and on point protect Traverse T Application To traverse from one point to another used when entering field notes deed calls or when creating new points for subdivision lot and tract surveys Features The direction of the traverse can be defined by a quadrant bearing ie NE 10 deg 15 min an azimuth an angle left or right measured from a backsight and a deflection left or right Directions can also be point defined Azimuths can be entered in both the 360 and 400 degree circle Metric Distances can be point defined or entered directly Distances may also be ente
23. 28 5 15 Trimble 4 20 V VRMS 4 21 Z Zeiss 5 7
24. 4 800 POINT OF TANGENCY 5 1000 POINT ON LINE This centerline file can then berecalled within centerline based stakeout routines for both GPS and total station field work The centerline file is an ASCII file which can be reviewed in a text editor Centerline View CV This command allows you to verify thata centerline file is correct by viewing the file or viewing a graphics plot Profile Design PD Application To create road profiles and generic profiles eg ditches to stake in the field or to use in Data Collection GPS Page 4 35 conjunction with template and centerlines for slope staking grade staking and grade control Procedure Select menu item 5 or when in SurvCOGO type VC it stands for vertical curve a component of road profiles in contrast to horizontal curve A menu appears PROFILE CALCULATIONS 1 MAKE ROAD PROFILE 2 RECALL ROAD PROFILE 3 MAKE GENERIC PROFILE 4 RECALL GENERIC PROFILE 0 END Consider the simple road profile shown here 33 38 25 a FO to zie 2 Us E 1 pups ZES ES n lt ty gt g oi Eu S gt ur gt amp i aw a 400 00 VC 50 36458 SD 960 100 0 K Va 960 955 252 us p Oy 950 pem 950 945 2495 15 00 16 00 17 00 18 00 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 00 23 00 24 00 This profile would be entered by selecting option 1 MAKE ROAD PROFILE Prompting follows BEGINNING STATION 1500 ELEV OF 1 T STATION 945 1 KNOWN PI ELEVATION 2 KNOWN GRADE
25. 88 FEET 10112 8107 10123 8641 BB 2 SE 40 DEG 25 MIN 13 SEC 271 65 FEET 9906 0000 10300 0000 Another variation is shown in Figure 6 26 In this case point 1 is still the base point but the direction used is defined by 6 to 3 In other words the point defining direction can be two other distinctly separate points Page 6 68 SurvCOGO BEARING BEARING INTERSECT INTERSECT PT PT DEFINED USING x BASE POINT 1 2 PT DEFINED DIRECTION 4 BASE POINT 2 1 PT DEFINED DIRECTION 6x3 INTERSECT POINT 7 Note Intersect point can be beyond end points of the point defining line 1 2 BASE PT 4 BASE PT 2 FIGURE 6 26 The input procedure for Figure 6 26 would be as follows INPUT BASE PT 1 22 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P P BEARING DEFINING PT FOR LINE 1 4 INPUT BASE PT 2 1 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P P BEARING DEFINING PT FOR LINE 2 6 3 PT OF INTERSECT POINT 7 The coordinates for 7 are then printed along with the inversed bearings from 2 to 7 to 1 Note that the INPUT BASE PT question is the transfer question in BB Enter any other menu item and the program will transfer to it SurvCOGO Page 6 69 Point defined directions involving the can also include an added or subtracted angle entered in the form DD MMSS or in the 400 circle Thus an entry such as 14 17 45 15 would add 45 degrees and 15 minutes to the azimuth defined by 14 to 17
26. 9160 10000 0000 10017 3648 10081 6436 10083 0689 10184 5169 10260 9887 9998 5672 10036 1624 10061 7492 10101 5380 10063 2972 20L PT8 20R PT 8 20L PT 11 20R PT 11 20L PT 13 Page 6 79 RW RW RW 26 10257 2337 10102 8406 20R PT 13 27 10317 2475 10181 9473 20L PT 17 28 10277 3501 10187 0865 20R PT 17 TABLE 6 8 Point Offset Example The Point Offset example of Figure 6 33 might be entered as follows R O W OFPT OFFSETS ROR lt PT gt RETURN PT OFFSETS PERPENDICULAR TOALINE DEFINELINE FIRST INPUT BASE PT 71 1 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P RETURN QUADRANT 1 BEARING 75 OFFSET POINT 3 PT FORINTERSECT PT 21 OFFSET POINT 4 PT FORINTERSECT PT 22 OFFSET POINT 5 PT FORINTERSECT PT 23 The printout obtained 2 line format is shown below OP OP OP OP OP OP OP 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 NE 75 DEG 00 MIN 00 SEC 50 00 FEET 21 10012 9410 10048 2963 NW 15 DEG 00 MIN 00 SEC 86 60 FEET 3 10096 5926 10025 8819 OFFSET POINT 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 NE 75 DEG 00 MIN 00 SEC 88 64 FEET 22 10022 9430 10085 6244 SE 15 DEG 00 MIN 00 SEC 96 69 FEET 4 9929 5431 10110 6508 OFFSET POINT Page 6 80 SurvCOGO 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 OP NE 75 DEG 00 MIN 00 SEC 309 81 FEET 23 10080 1841 10299 2512 OP NW 15 DEG 00 MIN 00 SEC 236 60 FEET 5 10308 7246 10238 0139 OFFSET POINT With Metric configuration there is no quadrant p
27. MAKE ROAD PROFILE 2 RECALL ROAD PROFILE 3 MAKE GENERIC PROFILE 4 RECALL GENERIC PROFILE 0 END Consider the simple road profile shown below e Co i on c e Sip 2 dg ON zZ ra D 1 gt 400 00 VC 364 58 SD 960 00 0 K n 960 9935 953 qo FF 150 950 RE 950 945 945 15 00 16 00 17 00 18 00 19 00 20 00 21 00 ee 00 23 00 24 00 This profile would be entered by selecting option 1 MAKE ROAD PROFILE Prompting follows BEGINNING STATION 1500 ELEV OF 1 STATION 945 lt 1 gt KNOWN PI ELEVATION 2 KNOWN GRADE lt 1 gt OR 2 Enter it is typically more accurate to base profile on the PI elevation STATION OF NEXT PI 1900 ELEVATION OF NEXT PI 955 5 LENGTH OF VERTICAL CURVE 0 IF THIS IS END STATION U TO UNDO 400 note the vertical curve length is entered after the PI elevation STATION OF NEXT PI 2400 ELEVATION OF NEXT PI 948 0 Page 5 20 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection LENGTH OF VERTICAL CURVE 0 IF THIS IS END STATION U TO UNDO 0 to end STORE PROFILE TO DISK lt Y gt N Enter PROFILE NAME RETURN END ROAD This leads to another menu that is handy for calculation SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING MENU 0 CALCULATE INTERVAL ELEVATIONS 1 CALCULATE SPECIFIC ELEVATIONS 2 CALCULATE HIGH LOW POINTS 3 CALCULATE SUBGRADE ELEVATIONS 4 RETURN TO PROFILE MENU 0 MAIN MENU 2 STATION 0 TO END 1872 3 18 72 3 953 24 STATION 0 TO END 2015 20
28. Manager function in SurvStar can be used to list and delete files from the Data directory Press enter F1 or M to scroll through the list of files The amount a free memory available will be displayed Be sure not to allow your free space to fall below 1000 bytes If you need to free space delete old project files that you will no longer be needing Press F2 or D for delete Then enter the number that corresponds to the file you wish to delete You will be prompted to confirm the deletion by pressing Y If you do not wish to delete this file press N Page 3 14 General Functions General Functions Page 3 15 Chapter 4 Data Collection GPS Options O Enter O from the Main Menu to access the various Options Menus associated with GPS data collection The Esc key function ESC on DAP will Exit from any ofthe following menus 1 General Options Menu State Plane 83 Zone MA Mainland Coordinate File park crd Unit mode US Feet RMS Tolerance 1 00 CEP SEP Tolerance 1 00 Store Fixed Only ON GPS Com Port COM1 Inverse Display Bearing Inverse Scale Factor 1 00000 Elevation Type Spheroid Ellipsoid 10 Font Size Small Choice Esc Exit WONOUPPWNS gt 2 Alignment Options Menu 1 Transformation Rigid Body NoScale 2 One Pt Align Azimuth Grid 3 Project Scale Factor 1 00000000 4 Auto Load Last Alignment No 5 Two Pt Align Method Fit amp Rotate Choice Esc Exit Da
29. OFF OF BACKSIGHT NOTE MUST INUERSE OR TRAVERSE FROM 1 TO 2 ENTERED RS PC2 BACKSIGHT 4 CALCULATES RADIUS AND PT H 3 1 P OPTION 2 gt KNOWN COORDINATES FOR KNOWN PC PI AND PT POINTS 2 5 AND amp CALCULATES 2 r RADIUS PT amp NOTE MUST INUERSE OR TRAUERSE TO POINT 2 ENTERED AS PC2 OPTION 4 KNOWN PC POINT RADIUS POINT AND PT POINT OPTION 3 3 POINTS ON CURUE ANY 3 POINTS DEFINE ONE UNIQUE CURUE CALCULATES RADIUS PT S 3 OPTION 5 KNOWN PI POINT BACKTANGENT POINT AND FORWARD TANGENT POINT KNOWN BACKTRNGENT POINT 1 PI PT 5 AND FORWARD TANGENT POINT 10 1 CALCULATES PC 2 PT 4 AND PC PT OFFSET POINTS 6 TO 9 3 FIGURE 6 13 10 Horizontal Curve option 1 Thisoptionrequires that you inverse or traverse along the tangentto the curve priorto laying inthe curve by direction of curve left right radius length and either delta angle or arc length The direction of curve is the direction you would walk if going from the PC to the PT A curve to the right is a clockwise curve and left is counterclockwise Consider the plan view ofaroad shownin Figure 6 14 Itis desired to stakeout the centerline at 50 foot intervals and to stakeout a catch basin with a stake 4 feet back of curb All the information given is shown This isa perfect application of horizontal curve option 1 To set the curve in traverse from station 10 00 to the PC at 12 12 46 Use the PC prefix for point of curvature
30. Options menu No scale is applied in this transformation One point alignment is useful for data collection on a new site In this case you can set the GPS base receiver up anywhere convenient Then position the rover over the first point and run Align Local Coordinates Add this one alignment point by reading the GPS point and entering a local coordinate like 5000 5000 100 Now the local coordinate system is set around this first point at 5000 5000 100 A two or more point alignment is used to align to an existing local coordinate system At least two pairs of local and GPS coordinates must be entered Two pairs of points is sufficient to define the transla tion rotation and scale for the transformation If more than two points are entered the program will find a least squares best fit transformation and will report the residuals For entering the local coordinate you can either enter the northing easting and elevation or specify a point number To enter the GPS position that matches this local coordinate you can either set up the rover over the local point and read the GPS receiver or enter the GPS LAT LONG for that point In order to use the LAT LONG you must set up the base over a known point and enter the correct LAT LONG at the base Reading the position from the GPS receiver does not have this restriction which allows you to set up the base at any point Data Collection GPS Page 4 9 Use the hot key A to enter the Align L
31. POINT 1 STARTING POINT 1 3 POINT 2 POINT x 3 POINT 1 The printout will be the same regardless of which method is used 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 INVA NE75 DEG 57 MIN 50 SEC 412 31 FEET 2 10100 0000 10400 0000 SurvCOGO Page 6 51 INVA SE 14 DEG 02 MIN 11 SEC 206 16 FEET 3 9900 0000 10450 0000 INVA SW 77 DEG 28 MIN 16 SEC 460 98 FEET 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 AREA 42500 S F 0 9756658 ACRES The sequential method ofentering ie 1 applies especially to deed checking where point numbers are entered sequentially It should also be pointed out that a way ward entry will have no effect on area if you immediately inverse back to the last point Thus if point 1 2 3 and then 6 were entered by mistake enter 3 next and then continue to 1 The first prompt STARTING POINT is not a transfer prompt After the first prompt the POINT question allows transfer to any other menu item prior to completing an area calculation For lots and tracts that include curves go clockwise around the perimeter Figure 6 21 is an enlargement of Figure 6 18 and shows two lots for which we will calculate area 1 00 ACRES 1 50 ACRES 43561 41 S F 65137 92 S F INVERSE WITH AREA SUBDIVISION LOTS WITH CURVES FIGURE 6 21 The procedure is to utilize horizontal curve option 4 Options 1 and 2 can also be used but option Page 6 52 SurvCOGO 1 requires that curves are approached along the tangent and option2 requires that the c
32. Type Station Type ROVER Mode RTCA Base Rate 1 Send Command to Receiver Receiver Reset Full Initialize 10 Solution Reset Soft Reboot 11 Dynamics Kinematic 12 Set Radio Channel 13 Check Comm Status 14 PC Card Utilities for DL Logpak receiver only eo eS ae OS Page 4 12 Data Collection GPS Choice Esc Exit Equip Type If the correct equipment type is not displayed here press one Then select from a list of equipment types Satellite Position Use this feature to view the position of satellites in the sky Press F1 once in the Satellite View screen to toggle the view Possible views are Satellite Geometry Only Satellite Geom etry with PRN value and Text Mode You may also jump to this same satellite view screen from the Monitor GPS window Elevation Mask Cutoff This sets the satellite elevation mask angle Satellites that are below this angle from the horizon are not included in processing the position Configure Base Station This routine sets up the base GPS receiver for real time differential opera tion by entering the latitude longitude and elevation of the base The base position can be either entered manually read from the GPS receiver or read from a file Once the base position is entered the base station will transmit differential corrections over radio modem Before returning to the setup menu the program will ask you if you want to save these settings to the receiver It is recommen
33. amp Rotate and Rotate Only Fit amp Rotate the default will use the second alignment point for rotation translation and scale depending on the value set for Transformation The Rotate Only option will use the second point of a two point alignment for rotation only Point Store Options Menu PO Backup CRD file in Store Points This option will create a backup of the current coordinate file when you enter the Store Points command The backup file name has the same name as the coordi nate file with a bak extension For example the JOB5 CRD file would have a backup name of JOBS BAK Beep for Store Point This option will make a double beep to indicate when a point 1s stored in the coordinate file New CRD File Format Point numbers can have either numeric or alphanumeric format This option determines the point number format for when a new coordinate file is created Alphanumeric point numbers consist of nine or less digits and letters 1 e point number 7A With numeric point numbers the point is stored in the coordinate file at a fixed position set by the point number This means that the size of the coordinate file is determined by the highest point number For example point number 500 will be stored in position 500 and if point 500 is the only point in the file the file size will still be 500 points long and positions 1 499 will be unused Each point takes 56 bytes to store So if there are 300 000 bytes free on the computer yo
34. appear Shooting the Gun Press Enter to Escape Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 5 At this point use the REG key on the RPU to collect the shot data or press enter on the Husky to cancel When connected to the Station Connect the Husky directly to the Geodimeter total station use the same port as the battery After powering on the unit it should not be necessary to modify any of the settings But if you should happen to experience communication problems between the Geodimeter and the Husky run Menu 4 Option 1 Select device 2 Serial and answer the prompts as follows Serial ON YES COM 1 8 0 9600 Table no 0 REG key NO Slave NO Once this is done the total station will go into tracking mode automatically once you enter the point store menu on the Husky The SurvStar program will also trigger the gun and retrieve data automatically so no other key presses are necessary at the total station Topcon There is a setting on the Topcon total stations that may improve communication between the instrument and the data collector This setting is optional and may need to be undone if you plan to connect to other data collectors such as the Topcon Data Collector FC 1 2 or Data Entry Keyboard DK 5 Because of the differences in interface from one total station to the other the method for changing this setting varies with each machine Below are a few examples using different Topcon total statio
35. case and small case selections All entries should be followed by Enter or Carriage Return the Yes key on the Husky and the lower right larger key on the DAP 9500 Allreferencetothe main COGO menu hereafter shall indicatethe above menus SurvCOGO is command driven The user can transfer instantly from one routine to another without going through the menu For example from within I for inverse the user can enter T for traverse and switch to the traverse routine The main menu can be recovered by entering M Configuration CF Much of the prompting and computation within SurvCOGO responds to the settings within Configuration menu item CF Even the paths of the program and data are set within CF The program accesses and alters an ASCII file called CONFIG PIK within the Configuration program This file can also be revised by any text editor There are 29 configuration items within Config pik A typical configuration on the DAP for example is as follows TABLE 6 1 ITEM STATUS CONFIGURATION 1 IBME Computer IBME displays 640x480 graphics 2 HPLJ Printer use EP for printouts to EPSON 3 A Data Drive A for DAP C for Husky 4 DATA Place data in data directory 5 A Program Drive A for DAP C for Husky 6 SURVSTAR Program Subdirectory 7 C lt C gt arlson 8 1 Scale Factor Change to 16 5 to enter poles for example 9 1 Y Tab Pt Skip Tab for Point number Y for line skip 10 1 Tab Northing 11 13 Tab Eastin
36. centerline based stakeoutroutines for both GPS and total station field work The centerline file is an ASCH file which can be reviewed in a text editor Spiral curves are entered by using SIS to indicate spiral at PI 8 Then you will be prompted for the spiral lengths radius of the simple curve and the forward PI point number The Offset Point Entry routine allows the calculation ofnew point numbers at specific stations and offsets Prompting is Enter File Name No Extension Roadl for Road1 CL List Centerline Y lt N gt Station 0 to end 1505 5 Side to Offset L lt R gt L Offset Distance 55 5 Point Number lt 14 gt Enter for 14 or enter new point number Toggles SurvCOGO includes numerous toggles or commands that can be entered at the menu or at the first prompt within most routines that set modes of operation Here is a list M Recovers the menu from any transfer prompt The transfer promptis usually the initial prompt orthemostrepeated prompt withina given routine M also cancels the HI and HIV modes of carrying elevations Stationing profile entry configuration file adjustment view screen and ASCII file reading and writing exit to the menu only when explicitly prompted TON Text ON This command turns on the description prompt The program stores this status Page 6 90 SurvCOGO until altered TOFF Text OFF ZON Zenith ON When traversing ofentering sideshots a zenith angle or vertical
37. enter When the file transfer process is complete press 9 and 0 to exit the program SurvStar Installation The SurvStar program files need to be installed in a directory called SURVSTAR on the MicroFlex Also there needs to be a DATA directory on the MicroFlex where SurvStar will store your data files These directories are created by the installation program To install the software insert the installation disk into the floppy disk drive on your computer or extract the survstar zip file if you have received the software via the internet Then locate the file named INSTALL EXE and begin this program Under Windows this can be done by double clicking on its icon In DOS type A INSTALL at the DOS prompt A menu screen similar to the one shown below will appear SurvStar Install 1 COMPort 1 2 BAUD Rate 38400 3 DAP Drive A 4 Install Type New 5 Begin Install Choose action Esc exit Overview Page 1 7 Option 1 is used to set the correct COM port on your computer Option 2 sets the baud rate at which the files will be transferred onto the DAP If you are installing to a drive on your DAP other that A use option 3 to select the appropriate drive Ifthis is not the first time you have installed SurvStar on this DAP i e the SURVSTAR and DATA directories already exist use option 4 to set the install type to Update Once these options have been set choose option 5 to begin the installation T
38. exit SurvStar before moving from base to rover or vice versa be sure to change this setting Mode This indicates the type of message that will be passed via radio modem from the Base to the Rover There are three options Leica Prop RTCM and CMR If you are going from one Leica instrument to another you should use the Leica Prop format If you are using a Coast Guard Beacon as a base station you will need to use the RTCM format CMR is generally used if you are mixing Leica GPS equipment with equipment from other GPS manufacturers i e Trimble or NovAtel Whichever setting you do use it is vital that the Base and Rover are set to the same format Trimble 1 The Trimble 1 equipment type is used for direct request and response interaction with the Receiver Use the Trimble 2 equipment type if you are using cycle outputs such as NMEA GGK or Pos Type 2 GPS Control 1 Equip Type Trimble Direct 2 Receiver Series 4000 3 Satellite Position 4 Reset Receiver 5 Battery Remaining 6 Simulate Keyboard Press 7 Power Off 8 Setup Base Station Available for 7400 Series only Choice Esc Exit Equip Type If the correct equipment type is not displayed here press one Then select from a list of equipment types Receiver Series Possible values are 4000 and 7400 Satellite Position Use this feature to view the position of satellites in the sky Press F1 once in the Satellite View screen to toggle the view Poss
39. field work Procedure Press RS The program first prompts AZIMUTH A ANGLE RIGHT R OR BOTH B RETURN defaults to angle right The program then prompts for setup and backsight followed by foresights Ifazimuth mode is selected printouts are essentially no different than sideshot inverse inazimuth printoutmode since backsights do not effect output Figure 6 23 illustrates a typical Radial 13 SET UP ig DERIVES ANGLE RIGHT AND DISTANCE FROM SET UP TO FORESIGHTS vane Stakeout situation FIGURE 6 23 Assuming Angle Right mode is selected prompting appears as follows SET UP POINT 13 BACKSIGHT POINT 15 FORESIGHT POINT 18 FORESIGHT POINT 227 FORESIGHT POINT 7 11 FORESIGHT POINT 2 20 25 This would stakeout 20 21 22 23 24 and 25 SurvCOGO Page 6 61 FORESIGHT POINT M or any other menu item In the Radial Stakeout routine both the SET UP POINT question and the FORESIGHT POINT question are transfer prompts accepting the entry of any other menu command Assuming that point 13 has coordinates N 10424 793 E 9988 4095 and 15 has coordinates N 10308 557 E 10112 9396 the printout for the first three entries in one line format appears next RADIALSTAKE OUT SET UP AT 13 BACKSIGHT 15 FORESIGHTS RS 18 AR95 DEG 35 MIN 26 SEC 40 53 FEET 10398 0000 9958 0000 RS 7 AR116 DEG 23 MIN 28 SEC 235 17 FEET 10342 1200 9768 2500 RS 11 AR 132 DEG 57 MIN 56 SEC 191 97 FEET 10411 3769 9796 9061
40. for the computer on the left and the Husky files on the right Total Files 17 Tagged Files Bytes Bytes Remote Husky 29 09 98 E lt DIR gt 06703798 25 08 98 CGA BGI 6332 21 69 98 29 09 98 GPS INI 783 66 16 98 31 05 95 JCOM EXE 141369 15 69 98 29768795 LITT CHR 5131 21 09 98 RADIO EXE 10 07 98 RADIO EXE 96912 16 67 98 SP27 GPS 29 09 98 SP27 GPS 12111 06 63 98 SP27 TAT 25 04 98 SP27 TAT 1195 15 89 98 SP83 GPS 29 09 98 SP83 GPS 7193 86 03 98 SP83 TX3T 19 89 98 SP83 T3T 1035 15 09 98 STAR BAT 29 09 98 SURUHUSK EXE 175472 61 16 98 SURUHUSK EXE 165142 29 69 98 18 29 SURUSTAR EXE 534070 38 89 98 SURUSTAR ERE 479024 29 09 98 18 31 TITLE TAT 164 28 69 98 TITLE TRT 154 29 69 98 13 20 UTM TXT 429 15 89 98 TRANSFER EXE 353682 28 88 98 19 35 UIEW EXE 183241 61 16 98 UTM TXT 429 06 08 98 13 57 UIEW EXE 169665 82 10 98 15 27 41 tag untag file 41 tag untag all files gt TAB switch windows ESC Quit Log drive Connect to remote Transfer file tagged files Delete file tagged files Software download Options menu Fi Hel FIGURE 1 1 Page 2 Overview To transfer a file use the arrow keys to highlight the file Then press Enter to select the file You may select multiple files You may also deselect a file by highlighting the file name and pressing enter again To start transferring the selected files type T The Husky has limited space for files If a file is not needed for the current job it can be transferred onto the computer
41. in Alabama East Zone by default Go to O for Job Options then 1 for General Options then item 1 zone You can set it to any U S state plane zone either 27 or 83 or you can select from a complete list of international UTM zones NovAtel GPS Users Beginning with Release 1 5 of SurvStar the program no longer does a soft reset of the receivers at startup In the past this would reset the receivers to a standard working mode With the new NovAtel firmware and greater flexibility to set the receivers to specific working conditions we no longer override the receiver configuration with the soft reset at startup We assume that the user has set up the receivers correctly using command sequences entered directly into the receivers or through connection to a PC The soft reset also had the effect of losing lock requiring a wait of 2 3 minutes to regain lock Now if your receivers are locked in you can exit SurvStar on the DAP and start up again gaining lock immediately If you experience any communication difficulty and are not concerned about overriding existing receiver settings you can still do a hard reset to factory defaults by selecting Setup GPS at the Main Menu then option 8 Solution Reset see page 4 12 Hot Keys Starting with Release version 1 6 of SurvStar you will have the ability to access hot keys from any Choice Esc Exit prompt or the Choose Action prompt in the Main Menu These hot keys will all
42. on the HP Palmtop 2 Open the terminal Windows 3 1 or hyperterminal Windows 95 program on your PC 3 Check that both machines are set to the same baud rate parity stop bits etc On the HP go to Alt C for Communications and S for Settings 4 Press the F10 key on the HP to open the connection the word connect on the bottom right should change to hangup 5 On your PC select to either send or receive a file You should be able to set the transfer protocol here On the HP check that you are set to the same transfer protocol by typing Alt F File P Protocol 6 Next on the HP select to Receive or Send by typing AIt F R or AIt F S Enter the name ofthe file you wish to receive or send and press enter 7 Both screens will display the progress of the file transfer When everything is complete Press F10 on the HP to Hangup and select Disconnect on the PC Exit both programs Overview Page 1 9 by typing Alt F X SurvStar Installation Before beginning the SurvStar installation two directories SURVSTAR and DATA need to be created in the root directory of the HP Do this by opening DOS from the System Manager and typing the following CD MKDIR DATA MKDIR SURVSTAR EXIT Next open the DataComm program on the HP and either the terminal or hyperterminal program on the PC Press the Connect button on the HP to establish communication with the PC On the HP select Alt F File then R Receive Select the root
43. point numbers to the calculated stations B STATION OF PC 1212 46 STA INTERVAL 25 50 100 50 POINT NUMBER 19 Printout STA 19 SW 66 25 46 500 23 128970 8115 529356 5005 STATION 12750 Page 6 42 SurvCOGO POINT NUMBER 20 Printout STA 20 SW 72 09 22 500 23 129017 5598 5293388291 STATION 13 0 SELECT FROM THE OPTIONS BELOW Program returns to stationing menu lt A gt STA INCREMENT FROM PC B EVER STA IE 25 50 100 C SPECIFIED STATION lt D gt CONTINUE C STATION 1287 23 Note PC station will be requested first 1f not already entered POINT NUMBER 24 Printout STA 24 SW 70 41 37500 23 129005 4567 529342 8964 STATION 12 87 2 SELECT FROM OPTION BELOW Stationing menu A through D D RADIUS 500 23 DEGREE OF CURVE 11 DEG 27 MIN 14 SEC TANGENT 67 13 INTERSECTION ANGLE 15 DEG 17 MIN 14 SEC ARCLENGTH 133 47 CHORDLENGTH 133 07 PC STA 1212 46 PT STA 1345 92 MENUITEM I INVERSE POINT 17 We omit the printout here POINT T TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 17 24 SurvCOGO Page 6 43 DISTANCE 500 2324 Note radius offset distance POINT NUMBER 25 Printout TRAV 25 SW 70 41 37 524 23 128997 5219 529320 2461 One common characteristic of horizontal curve options 1 2 4 and 5 is that the radius point number is either known orcalculated In each oftheseroutines the program ends by internally inversing from radius point to the point of tangency leaving the user ready
44. slope is used Likewise the right template slope is used when the first offset is right of the centerline North 5000 000 East 5000 000 Elev 1000 000 Station 60 00 Offset 28 53 LEFT For the design file method the centerline elevation at the stakeout station is calculated using the design profile and then the template is applied to calculate the pivot point For the section file method the pivot offset is interpolated from the section file For example if the stakeout station is 75 with offset right and the section file has offset elevation of 18 0 right 100 0 elevation at station 50 and has 20 right 102 0 elevation at station 100 then the pivot offset for station 75 would be 19 0 right 101 0 elevation The program reports this interpolated pivot offset before continuing For the user entry method the program will prompt at this point for the pivot offset pivot elevation and cut fill slopes The existing surface to tie into is defined by the elevations from the GPS coordinates The point where the cut or fill slope from the template intersects the existing ground is called the catch point As each GPS coordinate is read an existing surface cross section is built and the catch point is calculated The program displays in real time as you move the northing easting and station offset elevation of your current position and the northing easting and station offset elevation of the catch point The distance from the current position to t
45. station along the centerline can be slope staked because the program will interpolate between entered section stations Sections files can be created in SurvCadd by commands like Input Edit Section File and Digitize Sections for creating sections from plans User entry is the most simple method for design files since this method only requires a centerline file With this method the program prompts for the cut fill slopes and the pivot offset and elevation The program finds this offset elevation for the stake station along the centerline and begins the cut fill slope from this point Slope staking starts with a list of the design files Use the arrow keys to select the files Press Enter when you are done specifying the files The Centerline file is required for all methods The Profile and Template are required for the design file method Superelevation and Template Transition are optional for the design file method For the section file method the Final Section file is required and the Template is optional to define the cut fill slopes Slope Staking Files Centerline DEMO CL Profile DEMO PRO Template DEMO TPL Superelv None Tpl Trans None Final Sect None After specifying your design files the program prompts for options Use the arrow keys to select an option to change and press Enter when done specifying the options The Report File option stores to the specified text file the catch point offset elevation and the horizontal a
46. the default data directory Note that you should not try to type a file extension The program will automati cally add that for you As the program writes the text file the number of the current point will be displayed to the screen This is just to keep you aware of the progress When the process is complete the message Done writing GREEN txt will appear At this point press enter to return to the Point Utilities menu Edit GIS Notes GIS Application To review and edit previously stored point notes and GIS data Procedure Enter GIS from the main menu or 6 from the Point Utilities menu Choose whether to review points 1 By Point Range or 2 By GIS Field amp Value If you choose to review by point range at the Range of Points prompt enter a point range in the same manner that you would for the List Points L function Otherwise at the Field Name prompt type in a field name from the GIS file For more information on the GIS files see chapter 4 You will then be prompted for a value If you are looking for a point or points with a specific value in the Page 3 8 General Functions specified field enter that value here Otherwise simply press enter and all point with that field name no matter what the value will be called up For example if you were standing at a manhole marked 5346 and you wanted to edit the GIS data for that manhole you could select option 2 edit by GIS field and value Atthe first prom
47. then it will ask PT TO USE 20 an unused point should be entered CHANGE NO OF PTS SurvCOGO coordinate files are binary files that grow in proportion to the highest point number Ifthere are only 20 points ina file but the highest point number is 20000 then the file is sized for 20000 points This leads to fast recall but can also lead to large file size Ifthe user wants to reduce the file size itmay be a good idea to first do Renumber Points within File Adjustment which can reduce and condense the file then follow with Change No of Pts to lower the highest point number The prompt is MAX NUMBER OF POINTS 20 RENUMBER POINTS This command is useful for making a second set of identical points starting at a higher point number or lower point number Itis also useful for condensing a file SurvCOGO Page 6 57 4 3 6 7 8 and removing unused points You must turn off point protect if you wish to renumber over used coordinates In a file of 15 points where 3 through 5 are not used and 14 is not used the file could be reduced to 11 total points by answering prompting as follows RANGE OF POINTS TO RENUMBER EG 2 9 4 ONLY 4 1 15 STARTING POINT NUMBER FOR RENUMBERING 1 CONDENSE Y lt N gt Y Then you would use FA item 2 above to set the maximum file size to 11 ELIMINATE POINTS This routine will prompt RANGE OF POINTS TO BE SET TO 0 2 6 One range at a time is deleted and the user is returned to the
48. to load another DELETE FILE This routine first does a directory of all existing files on the data directory It then prompts SELECT FILE 0 FOR MENU TEMPI EXTENSION TXT This would delete file TEMP1 TXT To delete all files ending in TXT you would enter SELECT FILE 0 FOR MENU Page 6 58 SurvCOGO D E T A X EXTENSION TXT The acts asa wildcard exactly asin DOS Donot delete CONFIG PIK which may reside in the data directory 2D lt gt 3D Whenin 3D the program will prompt for zenith angles and calculate elevations in traverse and sideshot Enter amp Assign will always prompt for elevations When converting from 3D to 2D the user has the option to select the zenith angle prompt to reduce slope distances to horizontal distances EDM VERTICAL OFFSET This feature is designed for improved elevation calculation when atop mounted distance meter is placed over the theodolite Since the theodolite measures the vertical angle the angle of the distance meter shot will differ from the recorded vertical zenith angle Entry ofan EDM offset such as 0 35 will take this difference into account in carrying elevations TRANSLATION Translations of coordinates can be conducted by point number or by direct entry If you wanted to shift all points from 3 to 11 by atranslation defined by the vector from point 1 to point 2 you would respond as follows BY PT Y lt N gt Y 1ST PT 1 2 PT2 ADJUST ALL COO
49. to me I promise not to modify any copyright or trademark notice in the software and agree to protect Carlson Software from and reimburse Carlson Software for any loss if I do such modification If I change the software without Carlson Software permission I understand I lose all rights to make any claims against Carlson Software In any event I understand I must make any claims I wish to make in writing within 90 days after I receive the software I agree the most Carlson Software could ever owe me would be a full refund of whatever amount I paid for the software I understand the laws of the State of Kentucky will govern the interpretation of our Agreement it is our only agreement about the software and if part of this agreement turns out to be invalid the rest will remain in full force Table of Contents Chapter 1 Overview 6 2 2 2 aS Coe In heroes e oto erdde 1 1 MTDC FO OM CUIOM Mer 1 1 USK E 1 1 Default File Transfer cvscsissevsssicsacassesessdccecedacecsusasssaseveascessanssesdevssasce 1 2 SurvStar INS CAM AGO Ma iissseiscccssincescscesnasasoeansscutascedeksseconassceedassecsassvees 1 3 MicroFlex Dap ssisessiscasicdeassccstvesicahassancyataieudavsdeteusuwssianselsdseagesessiessenevesss 1 4 pl lI Ee EE AE E E E PO 1 4 DSO ES OE EEEN 1 6 Default File Transfer e esseoesoooessooeessoccssoocssssecessocoseooesesseesesosseeo 1 6 SurvStar Installation sooosooossooessoeesoosssscessoosssocssso
50. to traverse forward from the PT Another common feature of these four options is that they all offer the opportunity to calculate stations along the curve as above Horizontal Curve Option 2 This option requires that point numbers have been previously calculated for the PC PI and PT of the curve Like option 1 it must be entered by inversing or traversing to the PC using the PC prefix If menu item HC is entered and option 1 or 2 is selected the program will advise USE PC PREFIX and return to the main COGO menu The program will not ask for the direction ofthe curve L or R in option 2 It will assume that the intersection angle is less than 180 degrees PI OPTION 2 KNOWN COORDINATES FOR KNOWN PC PI AND PT POINTS 2 5 AND CALCULATES RADIUS PT NOTE MUST INUERSE OR TRAVERSE TU POINT 2 ENTERED AS PC2 FIGURE 6 15 Referring to the example in Figure 6 15 the entry procedure begins by traversing or inversing to point 2 As opposed to option 1 there is no need to inverse along the tangent Enter point 2 as Page 6 44 SurvCOGO PC2 Select horizontal curve option 2 Then simply enter the PI point number and PT point number as prompted If the tangent lengths are not equal to within 02 as measured from PC to PI and PI to PT then the program will print for example TANGENT LENGTHS NOT EQUAL BY 1 27 Theuserwillthen be returned to the main menu Ifthe tangent lengths are within tolerance the progra
51. with arbitrary coordinates Assume points 1 2 and 1 1 are points with known coordinates in a different coordinate system The true coordinate values need to be assigned separate points numbers If we are working in a file named GARTNER 100 then it might be a good idea to assign the second system points numbers near the top of the file like 98 99 and 100 Now select menu item CT COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORM BY PT OR BEARING REFERENCE P OR lt B gt P PT IN IST SYSTEM 0 IF NO MORE 1 PT IN 2ND SYSTEM 98 PT IN IST SYSTEM 0 IF NO MORE 2 PT IN 2ND SYSTEM 99 SurvCOGO Page 6 83 Note You must pair at least 2 sets of points After rotation is complete point 1 will have the coordinates of point 98 and point 2 will have the coordinates of point99 and all other points will be transformed accordingly Ifthe distance between the original 1 and 2 is different than the distance from 98 to 99 then the relational distances between all first system points will change as well A third pair of points suchas 11 and 100 can be entered but then a best fit calculation will be made and neither points 1 2 or 11 may exactly equal 98 99 and 100 PT IN 1ST SYSTEM 0 IF NO MORE 0 ADJUST ALL COORDINATES Y lt N gt N RANGE OF POINTS TO BE TRANSFORMED IE 3 TO 5 3 5 AND 4 ONLY 4 4 1 97 Note Do not include the second system points in those being transformed START PT FOR RELOCATED PTS RET IF SAME RET
52. would begin as follows INPUT BASE PT 1 1L25 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P P BEARING DEFINING PT FORLINE1 24 etc If the bearing option B is selected the user is prompted for quadrant and bearing The quadrant mustbe 1 to 5 5 representing azimuth If the user is configured for the Metric 400 circle azimuths are assumed and there is no prompt for quadrant The bearing that is entered will be taken as an azimuth SurvCOGO Page 6 71 Bearing Distance Intersect BD Application To calculate the intersections ofa line with an arc Features The bearing of the line can be defined by quadrant and bearing or by reference to points Intersects may also be calculated at an offset to the bearing line Procedure Enter BD This routine is similar to Bearing Bearing Intersect except that a distance rather than bearing is requested from the second base point There are two points of intersect in Bearing Distance They are illustrated in Figure 6 29 24 9 BASE PT 2 FIGURE 6 29 In the above example point 7 is the base point with the known bearing If the bearing is referred to as SW point 3 is the intersect point If NE is specified point 4 is the intersect point The known distance is shown as 9 to 3 or 9 to 4 If both intersect points lie on the same side of base point 1 ie point 7 is more SW than 3 then specifying the opposite direction ie SW calculates the near intersect point Input f
53. 00 Series Only This value is the time in seconds from the last calculated position with base corrections Look for values to be around 1 0 and 2 0 LINK Ashtech Only This displays the percentage to data messages successfully transferring be tween the base and rover Data Collection GPS Page 4 21 You may exit the monitor screen by pressing X enter or Esc You may also jump to the Satellite view screen by pressing F1 Store Point P This command stores a point number northing easting elevation and description in a coordinate file The coordinate file is a binary file with a crd extension One coordinate file is active at a time To change the current coordinate file go to the Job Options menu Point Methods 1 Standard 2 Auto Pts at Interval 3 Offset Point Entry 4 Average Point 5 Enter amp Edit Coords 6 Monitor GPS Options 7 Notes OFF 8 RMS or CEP OFF 9 Beep OFF 10 GIS OFF 11 Store RodHt OFF 12 Point Data OFF 13 Time Date OFF 14 RodHt 6 470 X to Exit Choose Method 1 There are six modes for storing points Standard SP This option brings you to a menu similar to the one shown below Point 25 Northing 0 0000 Easting 0 0000 Elevation 0 0000 DESC HRMS 0 000 VRMS 0 000 Page 4 22 Data Collection GPS ESC F1 MON F2 CODE F3 READ F4 STORE R amp S The point number defaults to the highest number in the coordinate file plus one Use the up and down
54. 15 953 4 STATION 0 TO END 0 The same calculation menu appears Select 3 for the high and low points 19 54 55 953 59 Now select 5 to return to the local profile menu as opposed to the main COGO menu If2 is selected for RECALL ROAD PROFILE the same 5 option sub menu appears as above The RECALL ROAD PROFILE menu is entered automatically after completing MADE ROAD PROFILE The same pattern holds true foroption3 MAKE GENERIC PROFILE Thisroutine differs from MAKE ROAD PROFILE by not asking for a length of vertical curve It will also report the percent grade to each newly entered PI station and elevation It leads to the calculation menu after the generic profile is entered as does the command RECALL GENERIC PROFILE Profiles in SurvCOGO and SurvCadd are ASCII files that store with a pro extension as in ROAD PRO They take the form Station Elevation Length of Vertical Curve For example our road profile appears as follows in a text editor 1500 945 0 1900 955 5 400 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 21 2400 948 0 0 0 0 A user could enter such a profile in a text editor and then download it to the DATA subdirectory on the DAP Husky or other controller Page 5 22 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 23 Chapter 6 SURVCOGO Applications The SurvCOGO program offers complete field Cogo including coordinate entry traverse
55. 5 LOT 18 AREA ENTRY EXAMPLE INPUT MEANING IA Go to inverse vith area 300 Start point 311 Next point 507 PC310 PC at 310 or begin curve radis amp Radius definition option 269 Radius pt R Curve right 274 End of curve PC276 PC at 276 or begin curve 4 Radius definition option 270 Radius pt R Curve right PC278 End curve begin next curve at 278 292 Radius pt still option 4 R Curve right 298 End curve 300 End point begin point Area 0 7419 acres FIGURE 6 22 Page 6 56 SurvCOGO File Adjustment FA The File Adjustment menu presents the following range of applications 1 INSERT PTS FROM ANOTHER FILE 2 CHANGE NO OF PTS 3 RENUMBER POINTS 4 ELIMINATE POINTS 5 ADJUST ELEVATIONS 6 POINT PROTECT 7 NEW FILE 8 DELETE FILE D 2D 3D E EDM VERTICAL OFFSET T TRANSLATION A ASSIGNELEVATIONS X ASSIGN DESCRIPTIONS M MAIN MENU Features Each one of the above menu items will be discussed in order 1 Q G INSERT PTS FROM ANOTHER FILE Often it is desired to bring in coordinates from another CRD file such as control points or points for stakeout This routine will prompt FILE NAME TOPO2 for example RANGE OF POINTS TO INSERT 4 7 The program will then insert these points from TOPO2 into the current file If point protect is on and these points already have coordinates the program will prompt PT NO 3 IS USED OVERWRITE lt Y gt N If the user enters N
56. 5 of the Point Store Menu Enter amp Edit Coords or through SurvCogo functions such as sideshot and traverse will not be stored in the raw file The existence of a raw file allows for corrections to alignment and state plane zone after the actual GPS work is done To make these corrections first go to the Alignment Options Menu and ensure that you are set to the proper state plane Then go to the Alignment function and enter the correct General Functions Page 3 9 alignment values Save this alignment to a file From the main menu go to the Point Utilities Menu and enter option 7 Process GPS Raw File Select the name of the raw file to process Use the up down left and right arrows to toggle between the filenames listed Press Enter to accept the high lighted choice The default will be the raw file associated with the current coordinate file Next select the file for output where the newly processed coordinates will be stored Select from an existing or new coordinate file Caution if you select an existing file it will be overwritten Next select the type of coordinate file you would like to create You may choose from 1 Latitude Longitude 2 State Plane or 3 Local Alignment If you select Latitude Longitude or State Plane there is nothing else you need to do The program will tell you when the output file is ready If you selected to apply a local alignment to your raw file you will next be asked to selectthe correct align
57. 52 ASHTEST NOT 68716798 LITT CHR 08 29 95 83 52 CAR REF 69 17 98 RCONFIG DTA 12 85 97 14 52 CONFIG PIK 16 86 98 REGISTER EXE 12 13 95 17 87 DD PRO 18 81 98 ROAD INI 89 16 98 15 26 DEMO TPL 16 61 98 SANS CHR 68 29 95 83 521 DEMO2 TPL 18 81 98 C NSURUSTRR 1 mark unmark 44 mark unmark all gt TAB switch windows ESC Quit Connect to remote Transfer Delete Set Path Options Make Director Remove Director OS Command File commands FIGURE 3 3 General Functions Page 3 11 on the transfer exe file in Windows You will see a screen similar to the one shown in figure 3 3 From SurvCADD open the Cogo amp Design Menu then click on Misc Data Collectors From Carlson Survey pull down the COGO menu and select Data Collectors Select SurvStar from the popup box that appears If you do not see a screen similar to the one shown in figure 3 4 or figure 3 5 you may have an older version of SurvCADD or Carlson Software If this is the case please call our technical support line phone number is printed on the first page of this manual for COMI See eee MED ER is Baud Rete 9600 __ JransterPratocal KERMIT Save Options OK Cancel FIGURE 3 4 an update or email support carlsonsw com From this first popup window make sure that all of your communication and transfer settings are correct Especially check that your COM Port is set correctly as this is the most critical and most often incorrect setting I
58. 55 DISTANCE 185 14 ZENITH ANGLE 90 0241 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER 7 Printout SS7 SE 82 52 23 185 14 4876 2175 5467 5086 ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN ANGLE BEARING 198 5608 DISTANCE 284 51 ZENITH ANGLE 93 5507 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER 9 Printout SS9 SE59 00 10 283 84 4753 0083 5527 1087 ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN ANGLE BEARING 214 51 DISTANCE 168 51 ZENITH ANGLE 97 41 PRISM 3 POINT NUMBER 8 Printout SS 8 SE430518 167 00 4777 2292 5397 8790 Page 6 32 215 315 196 02 192 63 215 46 SurvCOGO ANGLE BEARING CODE I INVERSE POINT 6 Printout INV6 NW 770814 0 01 4899 1890 5283 7925 215 69 POINT T TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 6 9 DISTANCE 284 5 ZENITH ANGLE 86 0415 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER 91 Use dummy point not to duplicate point 9 Printout TRAV91 SE 590012 283 83 4753 0186 5527 0915 ANGLE BEARING CODE SS SIDESHOTS ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 ANGLE BEARING 145 06 DISTANCE 142 51 ZENITH ANGLE 82 3509 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER 11 Printout SS 11 NE 860548 141 32 4762 6386 5668 0822 ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 SurvCOGO 196 199 214 589 Page 6 33 ANGLE BEARING 171 5146 DISTANCE 103 41 ZENITH ANGLE 87 52 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER 10 Printout SS 10 SE670826 103 34 4712 8743 5622 3144 200 028 The traverse and sideshot entries are shown in Table 6 7 Table 6 7 FROM SET TO ANGLE ANGLE SL
59. 7880 PT OFCURVATURE SELECT CURVE DERIVATION OPTION 1 KNOWN RADIUS AND DELTA ANGLE 2 KNOWN PI AND PT 3 KNOWN 3 POINTS ON CURVE 4 KNOWN PC AND RADIUS 5 KNOWN PI AND TANGENTS Note The above horizontal curve menu appears based on entry of the PC prefix 1 2 4 FOR AREA 2 4 FOR COMPOUND CURVES for area calculations 1 option 1 is selected CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt R SurvCOGO Page 6 41 RADIUSLENGTH 500 23 RADIUS POINT 17 Printout TRAV 17 NE 62 07 47 500 23 129170 8426 529814 9955 RADIUS PT DELTA ANGLE IDD MMSS OR ARC A 115 1714 Note that I is used as prefix for delta intersection angle entries Ifthe arc length is used to define the curve A is entered as the prefix as in A133 47 PT OF TANGENCY PT 18 Printout TRAV 18 SW 77 25 01 500 23 129061 8651 529326 7804 PT OF TANGENCY DO YOU WANT STATION COORDS ALONG CURVE Y lt N gt Y SELECT FROM THE OPTIONS BELOW lt A gt STA INCREMENT FROM PC lt B gt EVEN STA IE 25 50 100 C SPECIFIEDSTATION lt D gt CONTINUE A brief explanation Ifthe PC is 1212 46 option A would calculate stations at an even increment Ifthe interval entered is 50 option A would calculate 1262 46 1312 46 etc Option B finds the even station itself So ifan interval of 50 is entered in option B it would calculate 1250 1300 etc Option Csimply calculates the coordinates for any specific station desired The user will be asked to assign
60. At mode 1 the confidence interval is 97 6 At the default of mode 4 the reliability is 99 9 If the system incorrectly solves the position then the position error will be much greater than the reported RMS value Reset Sensor Memory This command will reset the receiver memory reinitialize the communica tions ports and reset the modem Saved settings on the receiver will be returned to their default values Send Command to Receiver This routine allows you to send a command to the GPS receiver If you need to set or read a feature on the GPS receiver that is not in the SurvStar Setup command then you can use this routine to send the command Any response from the receiver will be displayed Please refer to the GPS receiver documentation for descriptions of these additional receiver com mands Station Type This value will be either ROVER or BASE If you do not exit SurvStar before moving from base to rover or vice versa be sure to change this setting Configure Base Station This routine sets up the base GPS receiver for real time differential opera tion by entering the latitude longitude and elevation of the base The base position can be either entered manually read from the GPS receiver or read from a file Once the base position is entered the base will transmit the differential corrections over the radio Before returning to the setup menu the program will ask you if you want to save the settings to a file Answering yes to thi
61. B yis sisse pore eeen oi pia sued o pee eee Fake vn pase e een ve easi eiee 3 10 File Transfer PT essais dires 3 10 File Manager EM sesssisssoseisssssssssrsssosssizssssvsssesscosssesisssessoixisessuiss 3 14 Chapter 4 Data Collection GPS 4 1 Options O 4 esa tu m scuevisaesvconsessceseascuciusscedacniedeadentandadsunsoceskehsescesses 4 1 Align Local Coordinates A eere eese ecce eere eee eerte ente 4 9 Typical Alignment Scenarios eee eee eese ceret e eene e ne ennue 4 11 Setup CSW P Sisa 4 12 lingue 4 12 Ashtech aie ei EEE SE eh nn bates tei eise 4 15 I op 4 18 joue 4 19 DNA LEE LU LE PA PR CPC 4 20 GPS Monitor M 2 ena oo enn br nns Ve 4 20 Store Pomt P nent 4 22 SARCOUL OS sn 4 26 Elevation Difference E eed iveo esee oo eun area soe riora aen enean erra an 4 28 Roadwork R naues a md ate I II too eee oS aoto SERSA 4 29 Slope Staking SL sass oosisens ee nansenineenssninteneassennss 4 29 Cutsheet Stakeout CS ccccccsssscssscsssssssssscesssssssscssssssssescosseses 4 33 Centerline Position CD eere eae see ke etie o oan deae eer eek a ener Sa sees 4 33 Centerline Design CL nent 4 34 Centerline View CV assistantes 4 35 Profile Design PD scccvssssssdcscssccacsseasasdaxandestsadoarnisidensesseasse
62. CODE ACCEPT After manually entering fence and pressing Enter the program defaults to ACCEPT and a second Enter stores the data Then the user is returned to the Store Point screen Screen 1 The program cycles from Screen to Screen 2 as shots are taken manually or with the total station However the user does have the option to enter the Inverse Point Backsight Check Offset or Closed Horizon screens from Screen 1 t If using a Geodimeter RPU please see page 5 5 Page 5 10 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Inverse The Inverse Screen appears as follows PT TO PT entered as 1 space 3 or as 1 Enter 3 Enter Bearing N 05 03 14 E gt Horizontal Distance 274 65 right arrow toggles to slope distance Elev Diff 4 3046 Occupy Point 3 Backsight Point 1 ESC The first point entered will be your backsight point the next point will be your occupy point When you escape back to the point store menu these point values will be defaulted as your occupy and backsight points for the next traverse or sideshot Point The Point screen appears as follows Point 21 Northing 5300 2586 Easting 5100 6408 Elevation 1004 4200 DESC fence ESC UP DOWN CODE STORE The user can arrow key up and down through all items in the Point screen and alter any item It is a convenient location to alter descriptions You can even call up wordy descriptions from a stored table of codes where 17 mi
63. Carlson SurvStar Manual Version 1 60 April 12 1999 Carlson Software 102 West Second Street Suite 200 Maysville KY 41056 Phone 606 564 5028 Fax 606 564 6422 Copyright 1996 1999 Carlson Software All Rights Reserved CAUTION READ THIS NOTICE BEFORE USING SOFTWARE Please read the following Software License Agreement before using this software package Using this software indicates that you have accepted its terms and conditions SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT This agreement is between Carlson Software and me I promise not to change the software and not to let anyone else use it without Carlson Software s written permission I promise not to copy the software except for backup I will keep a record of all copies I make and upon request let Carlson Software see it I promise to do my best to keep unpermitted copies from being made and I will destroy any copies I no longer want I understand that this is a single user single system license If I want to use the software on a different system except in emergency I understand another agreement must be signed and allowing my copy to be used by anyone else is a breach of this agreement Carlson Software assumes no responsibility to anyone for any special consequential collateral or inciden tal damages in connection with or arising from the use of this software I agree Carlson Software can make changes in the software without letting me know and without giving them
64. DISTANCE 195 45 ZENITH ANGLE 93 1455 HGT OF INSTR 5 1 HGT OF TARGET 4 5 SurvCOGO Page 6 35 POINT NUMBER 41 After the first sideshot the program will not prompt again for instrument height at that particular setup When prompted for target height RETURN willrecall the previous target height whether it was entered at the current setup or previous setup When prompted for instrument height RETURN will recall the previous instrument height The HI method can be combined with the default prism pole method For example the user can backsight a known benchmark using Method 1 transferring the elevation forward to the next setup Then when the instrumentis moved to that setup the HI method can be employed An extra setup at the original backsight was therefore avoided Method 3 HIV Carrying Elevations forward from the Setup based on instrument and target heights and the vertical difference of the shot Many of the latest total station instruments will measure the vertical difference of the shot automatically or will report the vertical difference at the press ofa button The instrument person can record these vertical differences and carry elevations This is called the HIV method Figure 6 11 illustrates the principles involved METHOD 3 HIU HETHOD TARGET HEIGHT TH INSTRUMENT HET TH KNOWN ELEV B H ELEVATIONS 8 M IH UERT DIFF TH FIGURE 6 11 Press HIV at the main COGO menu to activate
65. E ANGLE BEARING CODE 5 ANGLE BEARING 50 23 DISTANCE 100 SurvCOGO Page 6 63 POINT NUMBER PC8 Printout TRAV 8 AZ 50 2300 100 00 5070 4548 5070 9657 SELECT CURVE DERIVATION OPTION 1 KNOWN RADIUS AND DELTA ANGLE 2 KNOWN PI AND PT 3 KNOWN 3 PTS ON CURVE 4 KNOWN PC AND RADIUS 5 KNOWN PI AND TANGENTS 1 2 4 FOR AREA 2 4 FOR COMPOUND CURVES 71 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt RETURN RADIUSLENGTH 150 RADIUS POINT 13 Printout TRAV 13 AZ 150 2300 150 00 4964 0062 5176 6478 DELTA ANGLE IDD MMSS OR ARC A 1102 51 PT OF TANGENCY PT 14 Printout TRAV 14 AZ 52 7400 150 00 5065 4104 5287 1793 PT OF CURVATURE RADIUS PT PT OFTANGENCY DO YOU WANT STATION COORDS ALONG CURVE Y lt N gt Y SELECT FROM OPTIONS BELOW lt A gt STA INCREMENT FROM PC lt B gt EVEN STA IE 25 50 100 lt C gt SPECIFIED STATION lt D gt CONTINUE Page 6 64 SurvCOGO B STATION OF PC 1507 25 STA INTERVAL 25 50 100 50 POINT NUMBER 9 POINT NUMBER 10 POINT NUMBER 11 POINT NUMBER 12 Printout STA9 AZ 368 3735 150 00 5095 8739 5105 1572 STA 10 AZ 389 5939 150 00 5112 0068 5152 2380 STA 11 AZ 10 8146 150 00 5111 8471 5202 0067 STA 12 AZ 32 0353 150 00 5095 4122 5248 9836 SELECT FROM OPTIONS BELOW lt A gt STA INCREMENT FROM PC lt B gt EVEN STA IE 25 50 100 lt C gt SPECIFIED STATION lt D gt CONTINUE D RADIUS 150 TANGENT 156 03 DELTA 102 5100 A
66. Figure 6 27 illustrates this form of reference bearing INTERSECT PT BEARING BEARING INTERSECT 9 PT DEFINED USING AND BASE POINT 1 2 PT DEFINED DIRECTION 4 BASE POINT 2 4 PT DEFINED DIRECTION 2x6490 INTERSECT POINT 9 1 BASE PT 4 FIGURE 6 27 In the above example the point defined direction from point 1 would be entered as 2 6 90 The entry 2 6 90 would produce the same result Bearing Bearing Intersect at Offset Sometimes it is necessary to calculate the intersect points of offset lines to known lines A classic example is the calculation of setback lines inside lots Figure 6 28 illustrates one such example The offset line is referenced when the base point is entered If you want a line 10 feet to the right of the reference line to intersect a second line the base point is entered with the suffix R10 as in 3R10 Therightor left direction is determined by facing from the base point to the point which defines direction In Figure 6 28 if 3 is a base point and 4 the point defining direction the lot itself is to the right Page 6 70 SurvCOGO NOTE REAR AND SIDE EASEMENTS BEARING BEARING INTERSECT ARE 10 FEET WIDE OFFSET LINES amp PT DEFINED DIRECTION sd ES 216 00 TO CALCULATE POINT 8 45 i BASE POINT 4 1L25 PT DEFINED DIRECTION 4 BASE POINT 2 3R10 PT DEFINED DIRECTION 4 INTERSECT POINT 8 LEGEND o PROPERTY CORNER PROPERTY LINE SETBACK LINE FIGURE 6 28 Prompting
67. File Adjustment menu ADJUST ELEVATIONS This routine is useful for adjusting up or down the elevations of individual 3D points or ranges of 3D points This allows the user to conduct 3D field topo work by first assuming elevations and then when a tie is made to a known benchmark adjusting the set of field shots by the difference between the benchmark and the calculated elevation Prompting CHANGE IN ELEV TO DECREASE TO MULTIPLY 3 71 RANGE OF POINTS TO BE ADJUSTED 1 11 POINT PROTECT Selecting option 6 toggles point protect on and off Since the main COGO program starts up the point protect defaulting to on the first time File Adjustment Option 6 is selected point protect is turned off The second time it is entered point protect is turned on etc Point protect causes a beep sound whenever a new coordinate value is entered for a point number with current nonzero coordinates If the point number is re entered the old coordinate values are overridden by the new values If Enteris pressed after the beep is heard the program searches upward for the next free zero coordinate point number When point protectis on itapplies to virtually all COGO routines from Traverse to Right Of Way Offsets A fewroutines will automatically override point protect These include Coordinate Transfor mation when renumbering the transformed points and Stationing NEWFILE This will doa directory of existing CRD files and allow the user
68. G 251 4409 DISTANCE 175 11 ZENITH ANGLE 94 54 PRISM 2 1 plus sign not required for positive entries POINT NUMBER 3 Printout SS3 SW 161909 174 47 4774 3470 5035 4119 179 70 ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN defaults to 7 after first SS entry ANGLE BEARING 208 1455 DISTANCE 198 515 ZENITH ANGLE 89 5944 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER RETURN Printout SS 4 SE 27 10 05 198 52 4765 1748 5175 0782 196 77 ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN ANGLE BEARING 175 1315 DISTANCE 245 08 ZENITH ANGLE 87 51 PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER RETURN Printout Page 6 30 SurvCOGO SS 5 SE 60 11 45 244 91 4820 0597 5296 9493 205 95 ANGLE BEARING CODE T Point 6 can be sideshot for same effect TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 ANGLE BEARING 157 2842 DISTANCE 204 61 ZENITH ANGLE 85 05 PRISM 1 4 POINT NUMBER RETURN Printout TRAV 6 SE 77 5618 203 86 4899 1890 5283 7925 215 69 ANGLE BEARING CODE I We must return to the backsight point INVERSE POINT 2 Printout INV 2 NW 775618 203 86 4941 7878 5084 4359 196 76 POINT T TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 2 6 DISTANCE 204 72 ZENITH ANGLE 95 143 use minus zenith when traversing backsight PRISM RETURN POINT NUMBER 90 use dummy point number so point 6 is unaffected Printout SurvCOGO Page 6 31 TRAV 90 SE775618 203 86 4899 1875 5283 7991 ANGLE BEARING CODE SS SIDESHOTS ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 ANGLE BEARING 175 03
69. G 5000 ELEVATION 0 Printout E amp A POINT 1 5000 0000 5000 0000 0 0000 Page 6 16 SurvCOGO POINT NUMBER lt 2 gt T TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING 265 1975 DISTANCE 195 45 ZENITH ANGLE 102 7145 POINT NUMBER 3 Printout TRV AZ265 1975 195 272 the distance always goes to 3 decimals in metric TO POINT 3 4898 4875 4833 1872 ANGLE BEARING lt 265 1975 gt 394 5103 DISTANCE 214 475 Enter as many decimal places as desired ZENITH ANGLE 92 3516 POINT NUMBER lt 4 gt 7 Printout TRV AZ394 5103 212 929 TO POINT 7 5110 6253 4814 8487 ANGLE BEARING lt 394 5103 gt 111 8689 DISTANCE 263 585 ZENITH ANGLE Enter Defaults to 100 Grads or 90 Degrees POINT NUMBER 8 2 Enter Defaults to the next point 8 Printout TRV AZ111 8689 263 585 TO POINT 8 5061 7677 5073 8660 SurvCOGO Page 6 17 ANGLE BEARING lt 111 8689 gt 255 6598 DISTANCE 96 3 ZENITH ANGLE 98 4587 POINT NUMBER 9 7 Enter Printout TRV AZ255 6598 96 272 TO POINT 9 5000 63 5000 0163 Wenote that in the above traverse the calculated distance is the slope distance reduced by the effect of the zenith angle We also note that the survey was started by menu item E Enter amp Assign If the starting point already exists we can also simply inverse to it to get started The typical procedure for starting an angle right traverse is to enter or inverse to the backsight point and traverse to the setup it
70. Height Numerical Expression File Transfer Standard Slope Staking List Points Lat Long to State Plane File Manager Auto Pts at Interval CutSheet Stakeout View Points State Plane to Lat Long Offset Point Entry Centerline Position Inverse Average Point Centerline Design Read Text File Enter amp Edit Coords Centerline View Write Text File Monitor GPS Calculate Profile Edit GIS Notes View Profile Process GPS Raw File Input Edit Profile Template Design Template View Template Edit Template Insert H SurvStar Menu Structure Total Stations Calculator Elev Difference File Utilities Store Point Job Options Road Work Stakeout Point Utilities Grid File Traverse Enter Coordinates Triangulation File SideShot By Point Number Template File Inverse Enter Station Offset Input Edit Points Backsight Check Offset Close Horizon Numerical Expression File Transfer Coordinate File Slope Staking List Points Lat Long to State Plane File Manager Backup Crd File CutSheet Stakeout View Points State Plane to Lat Long Unit Mode Centerline Position Inverse Com Port Centerline Design Read Text File Point Notes Centerline View Write Text File Beep for Store Pt Calculate Profile Edit GIS Notes CRD File Format View Profile Store GIS Data Input Edit Profile GIS File Template Design Point Data in Notes Template View Stakeout CRD File Template Edit St
71. M EXE data collector end of file transfer utility C SURVSTAR RADIO EXE channel change program for Pacific Crest radios C SURVSTAR CGA BGI needed for graphics C DATA DEMO CL demonstration centerline file C DATA DEMO GRD demonstration grid file C DATA DEMO PRO demonstration profile C DATA DEMO SCT demonstration section file C DATA DEMO TPL demonstration template file MicroFlex Dap The C drive of the Dap is generally a read only drive you can t modify anything in this drive and this is where you will find the system programs that are essential to the correct operation of the Dap Com exe is one of these programs and is used for file transfer from the Dap to PC or Dap to Dap Another program you will find on the C drive is Setup exe Use this program to modify the user configurable settings of your Dap 9500 If you are using a Dap 9500 your setup screen will look something like the one shown in figure 1 2 Page 1 4 Overview SETUP Uer 2 31 MAIN 1 LOGON SCREEN SCROLLING POWER SAVE SERIAL PORT KEYBOARD OTHERS __9 EXIT OPTION FIGURE 1 2 The most common settings that you may want to modify are option 2 SCREEN and option 4 POWER SAVE SCREEN Press 2 from the main setup screen to get to the screen menu Take a look at the values set for number 4 Backlight Timeout and number 5 Screen Timeout The first is the time in seconds that the Dap will wait betwee
72. MBER T TRAVERSE ROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 1 ANGLE BEARING 76 34 DISTANCE 201 5 VERT ANGLE RETURN RETURN defaults to 0 POINTNUMBER RETURN DESCRIPTION HUB 2 Printout TRAV 8 NE763400 201 5 10388 9312 9964 2372 HUB 72 ANGLE BEARING CODE SS SIDESHOTS ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 ANGLE BEARING 21 0424 DISTANCE 168 91 VERT ANGLE 358 1401 POINT NUMBER 11 DESCRIPTION 1 2 IRON PIN Printout Page 6 24 SurvCOGO SS 11 NWS22136 168 83 10411 3769 9796 9061 1 2 IRON PIN ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN defaults to 7 previous entry ANGLE BEARING 74 152 Trailing 0 in 20 seconds can be omitted DISTANCE 189 71 VERT ANGLE 1 2355 POINT NUMBER RETURN defaults to next point 12 DESCRIPTION 1 2 IRON PIN Printout SS 12 NW291040 189 65 10554 8198 9871 7771 1 2 TRON PIN ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN ANGLE BEARING 131 5747 DISTANCE 43 78 VERT ANGLE 352 41 POINTNUMBER RETURN DESCRIPTION CONCRETEMON Printout SS 13 NE283147 43 42 10427 0818 9984 9769 CONCRETE MON ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN ANGLE BEARING 198 2411 DISTANCE 157 44 VERT ANGLE RETURN POINTNUMBER RETURN DESCRIPTION 1 2 IRON PIN Printout SS 14 SE850249 157 44 10375 3379 10121 0893 1 2 IRON PIN ANGLE BEARING CODE RETURN ANGLE BEARING 234 05 DISTANCE 170 VERT ANGLE 352 04 POINT NUMBER RETURN SurvCOGO Page 6 25 DESCRIPTION FENCE POST Printout SS 15 SE492100 168 37 10279 2469 10091 9823 FENCE POST Lot C
73. NG USE PC7 TO BEGIN CURVE AT POINT 7 STARTING STATION 0 in our example but it could be 1500 or any other value Page 5 18 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection STARTING POINT 1 NEXT PT 0 TO END PC2 RADIUS 3 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt Enter PT OF TANGENCY 4 Curve data is then displayed NEXT PT 0 TO END 5 NEXT PT 0 TO END 0 1 PRINT CENTERLINE FILE 2 STORE FILE TO DISK 0 RETURN TO MENU 2 FILE NAME ROADWAY do not enter an extension CL will be used automatically 1 PRINT CENTERLINE FILE 2 STORE FILE TO DISK 0 RETURN TO MENU 1 PT STATION DESCRIPTION 1 0 POINT ON LINE 2 300 POINT OF CURVATURE 3 RADIUSPT 47 4447 DELTA ANGLE DD MMSS 4 800 POINT OF TANGENCY 5 1000 POINT ON LINE This centerline file can then be recalled within centerline based stakeout routines for both GPS and total station field work The centerline file is an ASCII file which can be reviewed in a text editor Enter Profile Application To create road profiles and generic profiles eg ditches to stake in the field or to use in conjunction with template and centerlines for slope staking grade staking and grade control Procedure Select menu item 5 or when in SurvCOGO type VC it stands for vertical curve a component of road profiles in contrast to horizontal curve A menu appears PROFILE CALCULATIONS Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 19 1
74. NG coordinates The On Off option allows you to switch whether the high lighted point 1s used for the horizontal and or vertical alignment The H column represents horizontal control and the V column vertical control For example you may wish to use 2 points for horizontal alignment and one for vertical YN Inthe local points view the HRes column shows the horizontal residual and the VRes column shows the vertical residual The residual is the difference between the actual point and the point calculated using the alignment transformation In GPS points view the HRMS and VRMS columns show the horizontal and vertical RMS values when that point was recorded Northing Easting Elev HRes VRes HV Description 5000 00 5000 00 993 50 0 0 0 0 YY Local coordinates view MH 4 5324 52 4739 43 970 23 0 0 0 0 YY MH 5 ESC Exit F1 Add F2 Del F3 Edit F4 Menu Lat Long Elev HRes VRes HV l Description GPS coordinates view Page 4 10 Data Collection GPS 41 153943 83 031243 992 87 0 03 0 04 YY MH 4 41 150232 83 034811 970 42 0 03 0 03 YY MH 5 ESC Exit F1 Load F2 View F3 On F4 Menu To start a new local coordinate system enter one pair of local and GPS coordinates SurvStar will then do a translation but not a rotation or scale North for the GPS coordinates will be the same north for the local coordinates In addition to the northing and easting transformation SurvStar will also translate the elevation from the GPS system to the loc
75. OPE ZENITH UP BS FS CODE BRG DIST ANGLE DIST N 1 0 2 5 124 3500 102 78 93 4611 102 56 4941 7878 2 de 535 251 4409 175 11 94 5400 174 47 4774 3470 2 1 XT 208 1455 198 52 89 5944 198 5 4765 1748 2 1 5 T7 175 1315 245 08 87 5100 244 91 4820 0597 2 1 6 7 15 2862 204 61 85 0500 203 86 4899 1890 2 6 90 2 6 0 0000 204 72 95 1430 203 86 4899 1875 902 7 7 175 0355 185 14 90 0241 185 14 4876 2175 902 9 7 198 5608 284 51 93 5507 283 84 4753 0083 902 8 7 214 5100 168 51 97 4100 167 00 4777 2292 6 90 91 69 0 0000 284 50 86 0415 283 83 4753 0186 91 6 11 7 145 0600 142 51 82 3509 141 32 4762 6386 91 6 10 7 171 5146 103 41 87 5200 103 34 4712 8743 In elevation work care should be taken not to enter T for Traverse when Sideshot is intended It is not recommended to press T until all the sideshots from the given setup are taken If Method 1 is used for carrying elevations there is in fact no need to enter any traverse except the backsight traverse using the negative zenith angle Though Method lis somewhat complex it actually involves the least prompting and is ideally suited to one or two setup radial type topo surveys If the prism is set to the height of the instrument at Page 6 34 HORIZ E 5084 4359 5035 4119 5175 0782 5296 9493 5283 7925 5283 7991 5467 5086 5527 1087 5397 8790 5527 0915 5668 0822 5622 3144 ELEV 196 757 79 250 196 773 205 952 215 694 215 460 215 315 196 517 192 630 196 199 214 589 200 028 SurvCOGO
76. RC LENGTH 268 37 CHORD LENGTH 233 98 PC STA 1507 25 PT STA 1775 62 MENUITEM IA INVERSE WITH AREA STARTING POINT 10 POINT 11 Printout SurvCOGO STATION 15 50 STATION 16 00 STATION 16 50 STATION 17 00 Page 6 65 INVA 11 AZ 100 2042 49 77 5111 8471 5202 0067 Note Distance is typical short chord length STARTING POINT 12 POINT 14 Printout INVA 14 AZ 142 3900 48 57 5065 4104 5287 1793 POINT RS RADIALSTAKEOUT AZIMUTH A ANGLE RIGHT R OR BOTH B B SET UP POINT 8 BACKSIGHT POINT 7 7 FORESIGHT POINT 7 9 12 Printout RS 9 AR 9 0718 42 61 5095 8739 5105 1572 RS 9 AZ59 3018 42 61 5095 8739 5105 1572 RS 10 AR 19 6820 91 28 5112 0068 5152 2380 RS 10 AZ 69 9120 91 28 5112 0068 5152 2380 RS 11 AR 30 2923 137 42 5111 8471 5202 0067 RS 11 AZ 80 5223 137 42 5111 8471 5202 0067 RS 12 AR 40 9026 179 76 5095 4122 5248 9836 RS 12 AZ 91 1326 179 76 5095 4122 5248 9836 This completes all necessary calculations The distances above are the long chords from the PC The distance to point9 is also the first short chord The typical short chords are 49 77 as inversed above The final odd short chord from 12 to 14 is 48 57 All printouts using the 400 circle are set for azimuth by config item 24 with radial stakeout AR mode being the only exception Bearing Bearing Intersect BB Application Intersecting two lines ata single point Features The Bearing Bearing Intersectroutine will calcula
77. RDINATES Y lt N gt N RANGE OF POINTS TO BE TRANSFORMED EG FOR 3 5 ENTER 3 5 FOR 4 ONLY ENTER 4 3 11 STARTING PT FOR RELOCATED POINTS lt ENTER IS SAME gt Enter ASSIGN ELEVATIONS One pointata time the user can assign a new elevation to the point PT 0 IF NO MORE 9 ELEVATION 945 35 Use item 5 above to force a range of points to elevation 0 by using 0 as the operator ASSIGN DESCRIPTIONS This routine is often used to add a new description to not just a single point but to a range of points Prompting is as follows POINT NO 0 TO END 2 4 FOR TEXT ON 2 TO 4 3 5 NOTE FENCE File Adjustment item X will also activate text mode automatically SurvCOGO Page 6 59 List Coordinates L Application To print the used and unused coordinates in a file Features There are two print display options 1 print the used coordinates those with nonzero values and 2 printthe unused coordinates The coordinate printout displays northing and easting Ifthe file is 3 D elevations are displayed If unused coordinates are printed the ranges of points with zero coordinates are displayed minimizing screen space and printout volume In text mode descriptions are also displayed Procedure Press L to display coordinates The program prompts PRINT ENTIRE FILE Y lt N gt If N or RETURN is entered the program will ask RANGE OF PTS TO BE PRINTED IE 3 TO 5 3 5 AND 4 ONLY 4 5 10 two numbers separated by
78. RED SCALE 70 Choose a scale larger than that recommended in order to see all points The scale represents roughly the scale of the points to fit on the actual screen of the data collectoritself PLOT PT NUMBERS lt Y gt N Y or Enter 12 17 DRAW LINES Y lt N gt Y General Functions Page 3 3 17 STARTING POINT 9 NEXT PT 0 END 1 NEXT PT 0 END 12 NEXT PT 0 END 17 NEXT PT 0 END 11 NEXT PT 0 END 7 NEXT PT 0 END 9 A closed loop leads automatically to area calculation AREA 110130 2 S F 2 528 ACRES ENTER NEXT PT 0 END 0 DRAW LINES Y lt N gt Enter M MAIN MENU B BEGIN T TRANSLATE Option T permits translation according to a frame factor such as 0 5 for half the distance of a frame either vertically or horizontally Both options Zoom Pt and Enter Lower Coords require that the user select a scale To obtain a zoom effect on point 9 for example within the Zoom Pt option a scale of 20 might be entered as opposed to 70 Inverse I Application To obtain the bearing azimuth and distance from one pointto another Thisis done by direct inversing from point to point whereby the program moves from the first point to the second point and holds the backsight for possible angle turning total station applications Procedure Press I for Inverse at the main menu or 3 in the Point Utilities menu At the Point Number prompt enter
79. RRU USE NEGATIVE ZENI 6 2 N TARGET SET TO SAME PRISM 2 1 FR 4 HEIGHT AS IHSTRUHEHT TRALERSE TS B 2 ZENITH 10 2 PRISH 3 4 5 SETUP SETUP FIGURE 6 9 Three consecutive setups are shown in Figure 6 9 Method 1 has three major characteristics First elevations are transferred forward from the backsight using the backsight zenith entered as a negative Second foresightelevations are correct ifthe backsight elevations are correct Third setup elevations are correct only if the target is set to the height of the instrument We note that after the firstsetup all backsight points are previous foresightpoints and therefore correct However the first setup point 2 is not a foresight but will be the backsight for the second setup at 6 Thus the key to Method 1 is to be sure that the target is set to the height of the instrument at the first setup Then the first setup elevation at point 2 will be correctly calculated and the second setup will correctly transfer the elevations forward Note that all foresight zeniths are normally entered as positive values After the first setup itis not essential that target height equal instrument height This is because the user can inverse to the backsight point suchas point 6 which was previously a foresight with correct elevation and then traverse the known bearing to the setup ie point 9 using the negative of the zenith angleread from setup to backsight
80. S format is stored 2 Automatic by Point Description When entering GIS information SurvStar will look for a file having a gis extension and filename matching the first eight characters of the current point description For example if a point s description is MH the file MH GIS will be used for that point Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 3 10 Point Data in Point Notes When storing a point this option will store the point number northing easting elevation and description in the point notes as well This may be used as a backup or reference to coordinate data as it was originally stored 11 Separate StakeOut CRD File This is an option to use a second coordinate file to store the staked points in the Stakeout routine 12 StakeOut Report This option will create a stakeout report in the Stakeout routine 13 StakeOut Tolerance This value is used in the Stakeout routine as the distance tolerance When storing the staked point the program will beep and display a warning if the staked point is further than this tolerance from the target point 14 Code File Code files are tagged with a fld extension They contain a series of predefined point descriptions in the form of abbreviations followed by explanations Code files may be generated with the Field To Finish module of SurvCADD or manual with any text editor See Appendix C for more information on Code file format 15 Inverse Displ
81. Star here are some things to know about the Husky The PAW key the key located between the up and down arrows on the Husky keyboard Power Management to bring up the power management program hold down the PAW key and press Overview Pagel 1 H When changing batteries it is sometimes necessary to go to power management and tell the Husky that the power level is at 100 If you are using Husky rechargeable batteries be sure to set the Authorization level to either 3 or 4 The Husky will disable charging if level 1 is set default Caps Lock to switch between caps on and off hold down the PAW key and press C To move the display hold down the PAW key and press one ofthe arrows The Husky actually has a full screen but only shows part of it To reboot the Husky hold down the two shift keys the two keys to the left and right ofthe return key and press the On button at the same time Hold down these keys for about three seconds On some Husky s using the three keys Ctrl Alt and Del at the same time will also reboot the computer but this does not work with all Husky types Default File Transfer The hcom exe program is used to transfer files between the Husky and a computer PC The first step is to connect the null modem cable from the 9 pin serial port ofthe computer to COMI top left on the Husky Then run HCOM from the Husky C gt HCOM Next run HCOM from the computer HCOM shows a spilt screen with the files
82. The setup is then givena dummy pointnumber foresight shots are entered and the original point number for the current setup becomes the next backsight The field notes for the above traverse might appear as shown in Table 6 6 Page 6 28 SurvCOGO TABLE 6 6 o Cc e G ke o n o Hor Angle 251 4409 208 1455 175 1315 157 2842 0 0000 175 0355 198 5608 214 5100 0 0000 145 0600 171 5146 NO DONS 0 D r2 D D D er I ONU BR SN gj or 304 3500 az Distance 102 78 175 11 198 52 245 08 204 61 204 72 185 14 284 51 168 51 284 50 142 51 103 41 Zenith 93 4611 94 5400 89 5944 87 5100 85 0500 95 1430 90 0241 93 5507 97 4100 86 0415 82 3509 87 5200 Prism 2 1 4 0 3 We will assume that after the initial azimuth was taken the instrument was set to 0 sitting at point 2 facing point 1 andangles were turned to the right The above traverse might be entered as follows E ENTER amp ASSIGN POINT NUMBER 1 INPUT NORTHING 5000 EASTING 5000 ELEVATIONS 190 Printout E amp A 1 5000 0000 5000 0000 POINT NUMBER T TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE BEARING CODE 5 ANGLE BEARING 124 35 DISTANCE 102 78 ZENITH ANGLE 93 4611 backsight zenith entered negative PRISM 4 RETURN SurvCOGO 190 00 Page 6 29 POINTNUMBER RETURN Printout TRAV2 SE 552500 102 56 4941 7878 5084 4359 196 76 ANGLE BEARING CODE SS SIDESHOT ANGLE BEARING CODE 7 ANGLE BEARIN
83. URN Note This prompt allows the user to take a set of cul de sac points for example numbered 31 to 40 and place them somewhere else renumbered perhaps 81 to 90 A radius point and a street centerline point could be calculated for a new cul de sac paired with corresponding points on a cul de sac already calculated and the points ofthe first cul de sac transformed to the new position and renumbered MORE POINTS Y lt N gt RETURN Note Ifa different ranges of points are to be transformed answer Y to the above prompt and you are returned to the RANGE OF POINTS question The routine concludes by printing as an example NORTH TRANSLATION 495432 2415 EAST TRANSLATION 191455 1254 SCALE FACTOR 1 001 ROTATION ANGLE DD MMSS 52 1951 The user is then returned to the main COGO menu Coordinate Transformation Reference Bearing Example Figure 6 36 shows atypical field survey with an initial assumed bearing from to 2 followed by shots to a fence line points 7 and 8 Based on the assumed bearing the call from point 7 to point 8 calculates as S 41 12 39 E Let s then say that a deed for the subject property gives the bearing ofthe fence as S 70 E andit is desired to hold Page 6 84 SurvCOGO this bearing and rotate the field shots accordingly All that is necessary is to select option B Specify the two points and then the desired bearing The procedure is as follows TRANSFORM BY PT OR BEARING REFERENCE P OR lt B
84. VERTICAL ZENITH 5000 0000 5000 0000 1000 000 BENCHMARK 19 DEG 34 MIN 51 0 SEC 295 173 FEET 5278 1028 4901 0768 987 555 SET UP 2 TABLE 6 4 METRIC 1 LINE CONFIGURATION STATUS CONFIGURATION IBME COMPUTER EP PRINTER C DATA DRIVE SurvCOGO 4 SDATA DATA SUBDIRECTORY 5 C PROGRAM DRIVE 6 PROGRAM SUBDIRECTORY 7 C lt C gt ARLSON 8 1 GRID SCALE SEA LEVEL FACTOR 9 5 TAB FOR PTZ LINE SKIP FOR PTH IE 6 Y 10 31 TAB FOR NORTHING UNITS 11 43 TAB FOR EASTING UNITS 12 56 TAB FOR ELEVATION UNITS 13 10 TAB FOR BEARING QUADRANT 14 13 TAB FOR DE UNITS 15 20 TAB FOR DASH IF ANY 16 21 TAB FOR DISTANCE 17 N EXTRA PRECISION PRINTOUTS Y OR N 18 N DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IE DEG MIN SEC Y N 19 1 9600 PLOTTER PORT BAUD RATE 20 MZ FEET METERS VERTICAL ZENITH E amp A 247 4983 4151 5013 2955 57 345 SET UP NO 1 TRAV 248 AZ 391 2495 241 269 5222 4090 4980 2367 63 618 IRON PIN SS 249 AZ 241 8907 139 317 5112 1802 4895 0372 58 484 FENCE POST Discussion of Configuration Usage Item 8 GRID SCALE SEA LEVEL FACTOR All distances entered in traverse or sideshot will be multiplied by the factor in config item 8 Normally place a 1 initem 8 State plane coordinates are such that a distance measured in the field up the central meridian at sea level will calculate anew state plane coordinate without adjustment However if you measure up the meridian but are at an altitude above sea level th
85. We note first that the lot contains a reverse curve at point 232 The key to computing areas when reverse or compound curves are involved is to enter the PTpointusingthe PC prefix This cycles the programright back into curve calculation Alternately you can conclude with 232 as the PT point using no prefix and then re enter point 232 as PC232 in effect inversing no distance We will go through the example displaying only the final area printout IA INVERSEWITHAREA STARTING POINT 244 POINT PC236 SELECT CURVE DERIVATION OPTION Page 6 54 SurvCOGO 4 RADIUS 7 222 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt R PT OF TANGENCY PC232 First set of curve data is printed RADIUS 221 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt L PT OF TANGENCY PT 233 RETURN FOR FAST AREA OR ELSE ANY KEY RETURN POINT 246 POINT 242 POINT 244 AREA 65137 98 S F 1 495362 ACRES Figure 6 22 shows still another example set of entries for areas involving curves In this case a compound curve is involved at point278 Again the area is inversed inaclockwise direction Figure 6 22 also illustrates how printer plots can be used for sketching and overlay drafting Referring to Figure 6 22 if you start at the end of a curve such as point 298 when you conclude at 298 as the PT OF TANGENCY you will be prompted POINT Enter 298 again to obtain the area printout For this reason it is not recommended to begin at the end of a curve SurvCOGO Page 6 5
86. a dash or a comma The coordinate data is then displayed If the printer is on and printer status is ON coordinate data is printed Coordinates with 0 value are skipped in the printout On the DAP you will need to blue arrow right arrow to scroll right to see the full printout since it is a one line printout of northing easting elevation and text Use blue arrow left arrow to scroll back MORE POINT Y lt N gt RETURN or Y for another range If all coordinates have been printed or RETURN is pressed the user is returned to the main COGO menu Press LU to display print all unused coordinates If a file has been created and points 3 to 7 and 15 to 17 have been assigned coordinates the unused coordinate printout will take the form UNUSED POINTS 1 2 8 14 The user is then returned to the main COGO menu Page 6 60 SurvCOGO Radial Stakeout RS Application To calculate the angle right or azimuth and distance from a setup and backsight to any number of foresights The printouts obtained are useful for staking out points in the field Features A setup point and backsight point are entered followed by any individual or set of foresights Groups of foresights can be entered in the form 5 10 for foresights 5 through 10 The printout obtained skips a line after every 5 foresights for improved readability With printout mode set for one line format config item 6 stakeout data is compact and easy to read foruse in
87. ad GPS equipment Centerline Design CL Application To enter centerlines for calculation of stations and offsets and for stakeout Centerlines are one ofthreerequired elements in template based stakeout the others being the profile and template itself Procedure Selectoption 4 or whenin SurvCOGO type SN Centerline entry within SurvCOGO requires that point numbers have been established for all PC s PT s and PI s of the centerline as well as for radius points For point to point centerlines no curves just enter the point numbers in sequence For centerlines with simple curves enter all PC s as PC8 where 8 is the pointnumber for the PC Forspirals enter SP8 where 8 is the point number for the PI of the spiral CENTERLINE STATIONING USE PC7 TO BEGIN CURVE AT POINT 7 Page 4 34 Data Collection GPS STARTING STATION 0 in our example but it could be 1500 or any other value STARTING POINT 1 NEXT PT 0 TO END PC2 RADIUS 3 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt Enter PT OF TANGENCY 4 Curve data is then displayed NEXT PT 0 TO END 5 NEXT PT 0 TO END 0 1 PRINT CENTERLINE FILE 2 STORE FILE TO DISK 0 RETURN TO MENU 2 FILE NAME ROADWAY do not enter an extension CL will be used automatically 1 PRINT CENTERLINE FILE 2 STOREFILE TO DISK 0 RETURN TO MENU 1 PT STATION DESCRIPTION 1 0 POINT ON LINE 2 300 POINT OF CURVATURE 3 RADIUS PT 47 4447 DELTA ANGLE DD MMSS
88. ad easement might be known and acompleted right of way description is needed Sincesuchan easement is usually not described with smooth curves the R O W offset routine offers aquick and full solution The R O W offset routine 1s also useful for offsetting interior easement lines when such lines are at uniform offset from the perimeter SurvCOGO Page 6 77 The point offset routine calculates the offset distance ofa point froma specified line One application isto check the offset distances ofactual fence line shots with the deed line The program is particularly useful in subdivision design and to determine building offsets from right of ways property lines etc Features The R O W offset routine determines the coordinates of offset points to a centerline composed of line segments of variable bearing The user is prompted first for left and right offset distances By specifying 0 the offset to that side will not be calculated Left and right offsets need not be the same As shown in Figure 6 33 the offsets are not calculated for the first and last points of the centerline If they represent end points offsets can be derived by use of 90 degree sideshots off the first and last legs The coordinates for all offset points are assigned point numbers 90 TYR 7 R O W OFFSETS POINT OFFSETS FIGURE 6 33 The point offset option computes the offset distance from any known point to a line Prompting asks first forthe baseline beginning with
89. adsheets The first shows the template left and right side grades The columns show the grade ID horizontal distance and slope Use the arrow keys to highlight an entry to edit When the field is highlighted you can type in the new number To move to the next spreadsheet type the ESC key SURFACELEFT SURFACE RIGHT ID SLOPE HDIST HDIST SLOPE ID EP 2 10 10 2 EP SH 4 6 6 4 SH The second spreadsheet shows the cut and fill slopes To end the routine type the ESC key and the program will then ask if you want to save the changes OUTSLOPE LEFT OUTSLOPE RIGHT ID RATIO DIST DIST RATIO ID FILL 3 0 0 3 FILL CUT 3 0 0 3 CUT The Dist depth of 0 indicates that the slope ratios apply in all depth of fill cut conditions Page 4 40 Data Collection GPS Template Insert TT This command creates a new template file that is interpolated between two existing templates For example consider a changing lane width A template at station 100 could have EP width of 12 and a template at station 300 could have EP width 24 This command would allow you to create a template at station 200 and the program will calculate EP width of 18 Firstthe program prompts for the first existing template and station Then you enterthe second existing template and station Next you enter the template file name to create and the station to interpolate Data Collection GPS Page 4 41 Chapter 5 Total Station Data Collection Setup SU Choos
90. akeout Report Template Insert Stakeout Tolerance Code File I SurvStar Hot Keys AO AP AVG CAL CL CP CS CV EC EGD ETR ETP FM FT GIS GO IO LO LSP MP OP PD PE PO PV RT SAT SC Align Local Crds Alignment Options Auto Points at Interval Average Store Point Calculate Numeric Exp Centerline Design Centerline Position CutSheet Stakeout Centerline View Enter amp Edit Coords Elev Difference by Grid File Elev Diff by Triangulation File Elev Difference by Template File File Manager File Transfer Edit GIS Notes General Options Help Inverse Instrument Options Nikon amp Geodimeter List Points Laser Gun Options Lat long to State Plane GPS Monitor Monitor Store Point Offset Point Entry Profile Design Profile Input Edit Point Store Options Profile View Process GPS Raw File Rod Height Read Text File Satellite View SurvCOGO SCL SE SL SO SLN SP SPL SPN SSO SU TD TE TI TV WT Stakeout By Centerline Stakeout By Enter Coords Slope Staking Stakeout Options Stakeout By Point on Line Standard Store Points State Plane to Lat Long Stakeout By Point Number Stakeout By Station Offset GPS Setup Traverse Template Design Template Edit Template Insert Template View View Points Write Text File Exit SurvStar Index A HRMS 4 21 Husky 1 1 1 3 Alignment 4 4 4 9 Edit 4 10 I One Point 4 4 4 11 Transformation 4 4 4 12 Ashtec
91. al The elevation difference between the two systems is modeled by a best fit plane When SurvStar starts there is no alignment data and the system is in state plane coordinates To recall a previously entered alignment use the Load option in the Align Local Coordinates menu You will be prompted to enter the filename of the alignment you wish to load Alignment files are stored in the DATA directory with dat extensions Load alignment is only valid if the base receiver setup has not changed since the alignment points were recorded If you had to exit SurvStar or turn off the Husky while in the field then when you restart SurvStar you can run Load Alignment In order to use an alignment when returning to a site you must setup the base receiver in the same position and enter the same LAT LONG coordinates for the base When you exit the Align Local Coordinates menu the program will ask you if you want to save the changes Say yes to apply these alignment points to your GPS session and save them to a file for future reference If you loaded points from a file they will be saved to the same file Otherwise enter a filename at the prompt Typical Alignment Scenarios Scenario New site In this case there are no established coordinates on the site Alignment Choose a point on site and do a one point alignment For the local alignment point enter the coordinates that you would like to use 1e 5000 5000 100 The One Pt Align Azimuth o
92. alculations Sideshot and Traverse are not only used for field note entry but also for design work such as the calculation of lot corners In the example of Figure 6 8 it is desired to calculate points 30 through 34 with the radius point 20 and perimeter points 21 to 29 already known This would be a perfect application of point defined sideshots We will assume that the goal is to locate points 30 to 34 radially from the radius point to the appropriate outer boundary point The user then simply inverses to the radius point and calculates all cul de sac corner points by point defined sideshots PT DEFINED SIDESHOTS SIDESHOTS L AND R INVERSE OR TRAVERSE TO PT 20 TRAVERSE FROM 32 TO 31 Then select SS Enter Select SS Then enter ANGLE BEARING CODE L RE ans CODE 20 22 DISTANCE 150 POINT NUMBER 30 POINT NUMBER 24 ANGLE BEARING CODE 20 23 DISTANCE 60 POINT NUMBER RETURN for 34 etc LEGEND 1 2 IRON PIN FENCE POST 400 200 FIGURE 6 8 Dummy Points When entering traverse and sideshot notes or when doing lot and boundary calculations you may catch yourself entering a wrong distance or direction prior to pointnumber entry In such cases enter 0 for the point number and no new point will be created Page 6 26 SurvCOGO Elevation Work When field work is conducted for contour mapping purposes itis notuncommon to collect 300 or 400 sideshots based on only 1 or 2 setups The use ofthe traverse and sideshot routines
93. and sideshot radial stakeout all major intersect routines centerline entry and stationing profile entry and stationing inverse with area horizontal curves offset to a line and coordinate transformation Also included are ASCII file importing and exporting anda variety of routines to translate delete renumber andrevise coordinates SurvCOGO also includes attractive screen viewing of coordinates with the ability to graphically connect points with lines and check areas SurvCOGO enables manual entry of field notes and offers an alternative to manual entry within the Data Collection routine covered in chapters 4 and 5 The Menu SurvStar on the DAP SurvStar on the Husky SURVSTAR COGO ENTER amp ASSIGN E LIST COORDS L TRAVERSE T CRD TRANSFORM CT ENTER amp ASSIGN E INVERSE I BB INTERSECT BB TRAVERSE T SIDESHOT SS BD INTERSECT BD INVERSE I RADIALSTAKEOUT RS DD INTERSECT DD SIDESHOT SS FILE ADJUSTMENT FA LINE OFFSET OF RADIALSTAKEOUT RS CONFIGURATION CF INVERSE W AREA IA FILE ADJUSTMENT FA EXIT TO SurvStar X CONFIGURATION CF LIST COORDS L CRDTRANSFORM CT VIEW SCREEN VS INVERSEW AREA IA BRG BRG INT BB BRG DIST INT BD DIST DIST INT DD OFFSET TOA LINE OF HORIZ CURVE HC EXIT TO SurvStar X Note On the DAP you can scroll left and right on the screen useful when listing points by doing blue arrow left arrow for left and blue arrow right arrow for right SurvCOGO Page 6 1 The user may enter both upper
94. and 11 radius of cul de sac and the key points to calculate are 12 through 17 Points 13 and 15 are calculated by Bearing Distance Intersect and the other key points are then easily derived Point 13 is calculated as the intersect of the 60 foot radius from 11 and a line 40 foot to the right and parallel to the line from 10 to 11 40 is the sum of the 25 street right of way and the 15 return radius As with the Bearing Bearing Intersect the initial base point is entered as 10L40 Since point 13 isthe near intersect point the point defined direction must be entered in the opposite direction as 11 to 10 11 10 Since the direction is 11 to 10 the offset line is 40 left so the initial base point entry is 10L40 The inputs are shown in Figure 6 30 Points 12 and 14 arethen calculated by inversing to 11 and sideshooting point defined directions 11 13 and 11 15 fora distance of 60 feet Points 16 and 17 are similarly calculated by point defined sideshots BEARING DISTANCE INTERSECT BASE PT 4 10L40 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION P PT DEFINING DIRECTION 11x10 NOTE OPPOSITE DIRECTION NW FINDS NEAR INTERSECT BASE PT 2 11 DISTANCE FROM PT 2 DISTANCE 75 PT OF INTERSECT PT 13 BASE PT 4 10R40 ETC FIGURE 6 30 The combination of BB or BD with point defined directions and offset lines largely removes the need to ever use dummy points to derive needed coordinates Use of BB or BD will allow most
95. and flattening information see the NovAtel GPSCard Command Descriptions Manual Appendix A Conversions m to U S ft 3 280833333 m to Int ft 3 280839895 E Trouble Shooting Guide Problem You have collected several points and can list them However when you go to write a text file or view the points the program tells you the 0 is the highest number in the file and will not process your data Solution Enter SurvCOGO SC and choose the File Adjustment feature FA Select option 2 Change No of Pts and set the highest point number to your highest point plus one Problem The data collector does not seem to communicate with the instrument Solution If you are using a total station check the baud rate of the instrument For all Nikon total stations the baud rate should be set to 9600 For GPS it is not necessary to set the baud rate SurvStar will find the receiver at whatever baud rate it is set to Check your cable connect ing your data collector to the receiver Make sure it is pushed in all the way and not frayed If this does not seem to be the problem try exiting SurvStar and entering again If there is still no communication try re booting the data collector F1 0 9 on the 9800 B O S on the 9500 Also check your power levels on both the GPS and data collector to be sure that low power 1s not the cause of the problem Problem can t get into the program It crashes before it even reaches the Main Menu
96. and then deleted on the Husky To delete a file highlight the file and press Enter to select it Then type D to delete Use the left and right arrow keys to toggle from the PC to the Husky If you are having difficulty connecting to your Husky type O to check that your options are set correctly SurvStar Installation The SurvStar program files need to be installed in a directory called SURVSTAR on the Husky Also there needs to be a DATA directory on the Husky where SurvStar will store your data files To create these directories turn on the Husky and type the following CD MKDIR SURVSTAR MKDIR DATA To install the SurvStar files start up the HCOM program as described in the last section Next insert the SurvStar installation disk into the computer floppy drive Then type L for Logged Drive to change the computer drive to your floppy drive either drive A or B First transfer the STAR BAT file by highlighting the file name on the PC side of the screen with the arrow keys and pressing Enter When the file is selected type T to transfer Next change to the SURVSTAR directory on the Husky by highlighting SURVSTAR and pressing Enter Transfer SURVSTAR EXE SURVHUSK EXE VIEW EXE GPS INI SP27 GPS SP27 TXT SP83 GPS SP83 TXT UTM TXT TITLE TXT LITT CHR SURVCOGO HLP KEYS HLP JCOM EXE RADIO EXE if available and CGA BGI to the Husky If there is not enough room for the files on the Husky it will be necessary t
97. anges Leica TCA1100 To verify the communication settings of your Leica total station press the F3 key for System Configuration from the Main Menu Press the ESC key on the instrument to get back to the Main Menu screen if you are not there already Next press 3 for GSI communication parameters Here make sure that your instrument is set to 9600 Baud Rate No Parity CR LF teminator and 8 Data Bits Press the CONT button to accept these settings After setting up and leveling your Leica total station press the F6 key from the Main Menu screen to enter the Measurement Mode If you have the proper cable connecting your data collector to your Leica instrument your setup is complete and you may continue storing data or staking points Point Store with Equipment or Manual Entry Traverse shots and Side shots can be taken by using option P Store Point fromthe Main Menu When configured to Manual or any total station the following screen Screen 1 will appear which the user can arrow key through and fill out as shown OC 20 FS 21 BS 1 gt BS Azimuth 225 0000 Instrument Height 5 1 Target Height 4 7 Occupy Pt 21 Northing 5100 0000 Easting 5100 0000 Elevation 1000 0000 Desc START ESC TR SS IN PT BS OS CL Whenever a backsight point is entered the backsight azimuth is calculated Alternately a backsight Page 5 8 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection azimuth ca
98. angle prompt will occur after the distance entry This status is not recalled between work sessions within SurvCOGO ZOFF Zenith OFF PON Prism ON This will activate a prism prompt after entry of the zenith angle when carrying elevations Itis used when the rodman chooses to raise or lower the prism pole when target height and instrument height have been previously set equal to cancel out the need for instrument and target height entries POFF Prims OFF SI Sideshot Inverse AZ Causes printouts to appear in azimuth form BR Causes printouts to appear in bearing form AZI Eliminates the ANGLE CODE prompt in Traverse and Sideshot routines and assumes all angles entered are azimuths AR Eliminatesthe ANGLE CODE promptin Traverse and Sideshot routines and assumes all angles entered are to the right ABC Restores ANGLE CODE prompting HI Sets HI mode of carrying elevations where the user is prompted forinstrument height and target height in combination with the zenith angle HIV Sets HIV mode of carrying elevations where the user is prompted for instrument height and target height as well as vertical difference ON Turns on printouts to a printer useful when SurvCOGO is copied to a PC OFF Turns off printouts to a printer SurvCOGO Page 6 91 F3 F5 These function keys apply only to PC usage of SurvCOGO and return the user to the main menu from anywhere in the program at any time
99. ar a screen similar to the one below N 5024 2378 E 5022 1533 EL 25 432 OC Point 1 BS Point 2 gt Backsight Azimuth 303 4451 Instrument Hgt 4 753 Target Hgt 6 254 ESC Exit F1 Stakeout There are three methods for staking out a point The first option is to enter the target northing easting and elevation directly If you are not calculating elevations then you don t need to enter a target elevation Use the right left up and down arrow keys to select Northing Easting Elevation etc Fillin the appropriate values Be sure to set a backsight point or backsight azimuth before continuing the stakeout process Once all the values are set press F1 to begin staking out this point The program calculates the azimuth direction to which you should aim your total station This is displayed on the next screen Highlight the Angle Right field then use the left and right arrow keys to toggle to Azimuth After turning the gun to the desired angle and setting up your prism press F1 to take a shot Your current distance zero before the first shot current coordinates and t Geodimeter robotic total stations will turn to the target azimuth automatically Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 13 angle error will be updated Note the current distance ofthe prism and the distance you should move the prism in or out towards or away from you When you have set the prism press F1 again to shoot the gun You may continue to
100. ave the changes STATION ELEV V L V R VTOTAL PVI 0 997 0 0 0 PVI 200 1005 100 100 200 PVI 308 1003 92 0 0 0 Template Design TD This command is a very simple template design Much more detailed templates can be created in SurvCadd but this command allows you to create a template in the field The template is stored in a tpl file The program prompts for a series of grades starting from the centerline For each grade you enter a horizontal distance percent slope and description The description is used by Slope Staking After entering the last grade at the edge ofthe road press Enter at the grade distance prompt to end the grade entry The left and right side grades are the same Then you enter the cut and fill slope ratios Template file to Write RD Left side same as right lt Yes gt No Press Enter Say No to have a non symmetrical template Grade Distance Enter to End 10 Example template created by Enter Template Data Collection GPS Page 4 39 Grade Percent Slope 1 Grade Description EP Grade Distance Enter to End 4 Grade Percent Slope 3 Grade Description SHD Grade Distance Enter to End Press Enter Cut Slope Ratio 2 Fill Slope Ratio 2 Template View TV This commandallows you to verify thata template file is correct by viewing the file or viewing a graphics plot Template Edit TE This command edits the template file data in a spreadsheet editor There are two spre
101. ay This setting applies to the way results will be displayed in the inverse function of the Point Utilities menu Possible values are Bearing North Azimuth and South Azimuth For some types of total stations there are additional option items which pertain to data collection with that manufacturer only These items are as follows For Nikon Total Stations 16 Vertical Angle Select which vertical angle type the Nikon is set to Zenith Horizon or Com pass 17 Horizontal Angle Select which horizontal angle type the Nikon is set to Right or Left For Geodimeter Total Stations 16 Unit Type There are two possible values for this field RPU and Station If you are connecting to the black box Geodat remote control unit select RPU When connecting directly to the total station itself use the Station type Equipment Setup Before taking and recording shots it is necessary to connect the data collector to the total station Also with some instrument types additional setup is required The following sections deal with Page 5 4 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection proper procedure for setting up the equipment before taking shots Nikon With the Nikon total station it is very important to ensure that the baud rate is set properly To do this with a DTM 400 series use the FNC key and choose 5 for Set Next press 6 for Oth ers Press the ENT key twice to scroll past the first two options When you rea
102. base point ie pt 1 above and direction defined by bearing or by asecond point It then asks for the offset point number and then for a number to be assigned to the intersect point Then it computes bearing and distance from base point to intersect point and from intersect point to offset point A number must be assigned to the intersect point pts 21 22 Page 6 78 SurvCOGO and 23 in the point offset example of Figure 4 37 If these points are not needed for any reason enter dummy points with numbers like 0 or numbers above the file size R O W Offset Example Press OF To enter the above example prompting would be as follows R O W OR PT OFFSETS R OR lt PT gt R R O W OFFSETS LEFT R O W OFFSET 20 RIGHT R O W OFFSET 20 BASELINE STARTING POINT 1 BASELINE PT 2 8 BASELINE PT 3 11 PT 4 FOR LEFT OFFSET 21 PT FOR RIGHT OFFSET 22 BASELINE PT 4 13 PT FOR LEFT OFFSET 23 PT FOR RIGHT OFFSET 24 ETC The printout produced including the traverse entry of the baseline is shown in Table 6 8 Notehow the printout skips a line between pairs of offsets E amp A 1 TRAV 8 TRAV 11 TRAV 13 TRAV 17 TRAV 20 RW 21 RW 22 RW 23 RW 24 RW 25 SurvCOGO NE 10 00 00 NE 40 00 00 NE 0 50 00 NE 76 34 13 NE 88 45 00 100 00 100 00 98 00 104 30 76 49 10000 0000 10098 4808 10175 0852 10273 0749 10297 2988 10298 9674 10107 0495 10089 9120 10182 4905 10167 6800 10288
103. be filled out first For each grade you enter a horizontal distance percent slope and description The description is used by Slope Staking After entering the last grade at the edge of the road press Enter at the grade distance prompt to end the grade entry or begin right side grade entry if sides are non symmetrical Finally enter the cut and fill slope ratios Template file to Write RD Left side same as right lt Yes gt No Press Enter Say No to have a non symmetrical template Grade Distance Enter to End 10 Grade Percent Slope 1 Grade Description EP Grade Distance Enter to End 4 Grade Percent Slope 3 Grade Description SHD Grade Distance Enter to End Press Enter Cut Slope Ratio 2 Fill Slope Ratio 2 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 17 Enter Centerline Application To enter centerlines for calculation of stations and offsets and for stakeout Centerlines are one of three required elements in template based stakeout the others being the profile and template itself Procedure Select option 4 or when in SurvCOGO type SN Centerline entry within SurvStarrequires that point numbers have been established for all PC s PT s and PI s ofthe centerline as well as for radius points SurvStar will not permit entry ofspiral curves Any centerline including centerlines with spirals can be made within SurvCadd and downloaded into the data collector for use in stakeout CENTERLINE STATIONI
104. ceiver itself and establish raw file param eters such as data rate and antenna height Type 1 and enter to get into the Group Editor d Create a new log group by hitting the F2 key Enter a name for the new group then enter data rate elevation cutoff satellite minimum and antenna height by typing in these values and using the up and down arrow keys to move between fields e Once you have set this data press the F3 key to save the new group to the DL It is very important to save any changes as they will not automatically be saved when exiting this feature f Hit Escape to exit the Group Editor You will be prompted to beginning logging Select Yes or No g Ifyou say No here you can also beginning logging from option 2 on the previous screen h While logging data you will see your current PDOP HDOP and other pertinent statistics displayed on the screen Watch for the Project duration clock to incre ment to confirm that data is being logged to the card i To collect a point you must mark it as a site Do this with the F1 key j To finish logging data press escape You may choose to continue logging in the background as you return to real time differential data collection However be sure to return to option 14 of the Setup menu to end logging and close the file before powering off the receiver If the receiver loses power before closing the file the file will be corrupt or deleted k Depending on the size of your PC Card y
105. ch the Baud Rate menu press 4 for 9600 Then press ENT two times to go back to the main screen Also with the Nikon total station you should make sure that the instrument and the data collector are set to the same units of measure On a DTM 400 series total station press the FNC key and then 5 for Set Then press 1 for Angle Select Zenith Horizon or Compass and make sure the same setting is displayed in the SurvStar Options menu under item 14 see previous page Press ENT twice to get back to the Set menu Select 5 for Unit Press 1 to measure angles in degrees Next select the proper distance unit for measure Make sure this is the same setting that is displayed in the SurvStar Options menu under item 3 see page 5 2 Geodimeter When running SurvStar with a Geodimeter robotic total station you may connect either to the RPU the Black Box or directly to the station itself The following explains the setup proce dure for each of these cases When connected to the RPU Before taking any shots set up the equipment and establish radio connection between the station and the remote unit On the RPU run Menu 4 option 1 Select device then 2 Serial Answer the prompts as follows Serial ON YES COM 1 8 0 9600 Table no 0 REG key YES Set the Geodimeter in tracking mode with the TRK button on the RPU From the Husky select which type of shot TRV SS etc and the following screen should
106. ct option 5 Referring to Figure 6 17 the prompting would appear as follows PT ON BACK TANGENT 1 PT OF INTERSECTION PI 5 PT ON FORWARD TANGENT 10 RADIUS OF CURVE PRECEDE WITH A FOR ARC OR T FOR TANGENT 200 PC PT 2 Printout HC52 5105 1988 5105 1988 PT OFCURVATURE PT PT 4 Printout HC5 4 5162 2865 5270 9940 PT OFTANGENCY INTERSECT PT RADIUS PT PT OF INTERSECT PT 3 Printout BB 4 SE 45 00 00 200 00 4963 7774 5246 6199 RADIUS PT BB 20NE 7 00 00 200 00 5162 2865 5270 9940 PT OF TANGENCY SurvCOGO Page 6 47 ROADWAY WIDTH 0 TO CONT 20 Enter 0 if you do not wish to calculate 6 9 START PT 6 The 4 offset points 6 9 will be calculated without point protect Printout PC L 6 5112 2698 5098 1277 PC R 7 5098 1277 5112 2698 PT L 8 5172 2120 5272 2127 PT R 9 5152 3611 5269 7753 DO YOU WANT STATION COORDS ALONG CURVE Y lt N gt N RADIUS 200 DEGREE OF CURVE 28 DEG 38 MIN 52 SEC TANGENT 97 55 INTERSECTION ANGLE 52 DEG 0 MIN 0 SEC ARCLENGTH 181 51 CHORDLENGTH 175 35 Horizontal curve option 5 is very useful for subdivision design or road design in general Working from a subdivision sketch plan for example you would first establish the tangents or straightaways ofthe roads LEGEND HORIZONTAL CURVE OPTION 5 CALCULATE POINTS ON TANGENT CONCRETE MONUMENT THEN CALCULATE PI POINTS 10 AND INSCRIBE THE CURVES USING DESTRED lt TRON PIN RADIUS TANGENT OR ARC LENGTH 75 0 75 150 225
107. d then you can use this routine to send the command Any response from the receiver will be displayed Please refer to the GPS receiver documentation for descriptions of these additional receiver com mands GPS Monitor M This screen reads the position and solution information from the GPS receiver Page 4 20 Data Collection GPS LAT 41 15325718 LONG 83 03497385 NORTH 5000 00 EAST 5000 00 ELEV 993 50 HRMS 0 038 or CEP VRMS 0 040 or SEP FIXED SAT 6 PDOP 2 0 HDOP 1 8 VDOP 2 1 Latency 1 0 or Link 100 Press Enter or X to exit F1 for Satellite View LAT LONG This is the latitude and longitude of the position shown in degrees minutes seconds and decimal seconds as dd mmssssss For example 83 03497385 is 83 degrees 3 minutes and 49 7385 seconds NORTH EAST ELEV This is the local coordinate if a local alignment is defined Otherwise this is the state plane coordinate HRMS This is the horizontal root mean squared position error VRMS This is the vertical root mean squared position error CEP This is the Circular Error Probability SEP This is the Spherical Error Probability SAT The number of satellites used in the computation With the NovAtel GPS system two num bers will be displayed here The first is the number of satellites used for the differential position the second is the number of satellites visible by the receiver unit LATENCY NovAtel Trimble Direct and Leica 5
108. d LOC and will prompt the user with Location The SIZE definition is an example of a default value of 24 When at the Ring Size lt 24 gt prompt the user can just press Enter to use this default value of 24 The INVERT definition is an example of a choice between Excellent Good Fair Poor and Bad At this prompt the user only has to type in the first character of any of these choices The MEAS Down definition is an example of an equation The key letters EQN must appear at the very beginning of the default section to signal that this field is an equation Then the equation is entered using field names to represent their values or key words to represent northing easting or elevation point values The key words are as follows NOR Northing EAS Easting ELV Elevation The equation is calculated from left to right normal order of precedence is ignored and regular numerical values may also be used The user will not see this prompt the first time the point is being stored but it will be displayed and updated whenever GIS data is edited through SurvStar Note If there is no default or equation for a field there must be exactly one space between the two commas that define the default area 9 GIS File This is the File where the GIS field definitions are found When you select this option you will have two choices 1 Enter the name of the file Enter a filename up to eight characters without extension where the GI
109. ded that you only answer yes if this is a permanent base station Saving the settings to the receiver will cause it to always begin outputting the same latitude and longitude corrections automatically once it s powered on The program will also ask you if you want to save the settings to a file Answering yes to this prompt will store a file with the current latitude longitude in decimal degrees and height These base station files are stored with a ref extension and can be used whenever you wish to set a base station over this same point Select Base Station ID The rover by default will accept base station corrections from any base receiver that is transmitting on the same radio frequency If you are working in an area where more that one base station may be sending corrections on the same frequency you can choose to have your rover only listen to one particular base station Use this option to specify the name ofthe base station ID you enter at the time of Base Station Configuration Station Type This value will be either ROVER or BASE If you do not exit SurvStar before moving from base to rover or vice versa be sure to change this setting Mode Choose RTCA RTCM or CMR If you are using your own NovAtel base station you will be using RTCA If you are using a Coast Guard beacon as your base set to RTCM If you are using a Trimble base station with your NovAtel rover select CMR Base Rate The is the rate at which the base s
110. directory A or C directory then type star bat in the file to receive box Press enter on the HP Then go to your PC select the file to send as star bat from your set of SurvStar files and click OK Once this file transfer is successful repeat the procedure for the following files Be sure to note which directory each file belongs in The SurvStar files are as follows A STAR BAT routine to start SurvStar A SURVSTAR SURVSTAR EXE the main SurvStar program A SURVSTAR SURVDAP EXE the SurvCOGO program in SurvStar A SURVSTAR VIEWDAP EXE the View Screen program in SurvStar A SURVSTAR GPS INI user settings A SURVSTAR SP83 GPS data tables required for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR SP83 TXT text labels for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR SP27 GPS data tables required for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR SP27 TXT text labels for state plane 83 A SURV STAR UTM TXT text labels for UTM datum regions A SURVSTAR TITLE TXT opening screen for SurvStar A SURVSTAR LITT CHR a font file A SURVSTAR SURVCOGO HLP SurvCOGO help file A SURVSTAR KEYS HLP SurvStar Hot Keys help file A SURVSTAR CGA BGI needed for graphics A DATA CONFIG PIK default configuration file for SurvCOGO A DATA DEMO CL demonstration centerline file A DATA DEMO GRD demonstration grid file Page 1 10 Overview A DATA DEMO PRO demonstration profile A DATA DEMO SCT demonstration section file A DATA DEMO TPL demonstration temp
111. e stakeout will end automatically and you will be returned to the main menu In addition to the bull s eye view there is also a text view that shows the distance and azimuth in large letters The advantage of the text view is that it is easier to read To toggle between the views press the V for View key There are five methods for specifying the target point The first option is to enter the target northing easting and elevation directly SE If you are not calculating elevations then you don t need to enter a target elevation The second method is to read the target coordinates from the coordinate file by entering the point number SPN Before beginning the stakeout the program shows the coordinate and description for the entered point number The third method is to enter a station and offset which calculates the target coordinates using a centerline file SSO A centerline file can be created in SurvCadd or in SurvStar under the 4th option of the Roadwork menu At the offset entry a skew pipe end point for example can be entered as offset 40 30 which means offset 40 and 30 degrees right of perpendicular Offset 50 30 would be offset 50 and 30 degrees left of perpendicular Page 4 26 Data Collection GPS The fourth method is stakeout by centerline SCL which finds nearest point on the centerline to your current position This point on the centerline becomes the target point The centerline is drawn across the bull s eye
112. e SU for SetUp from the Main Menu This leads to a menu that utilizes the up down and left right arrow keys It appears below N 5100 0000 E 5100 0000 EL 1000 0000 Occupy Point 20 Backsight Point gt Backsight Azimuth BS PT NOT FND Instrument Height 0 00 Target Height 0 00 gt Equipment Nikon ESC The gt symbols indicate items that permit left and right arrows to toggle through options Pressing Enter while ESC is highlighted or pressing ESC itself will exit to the Main Menu saving all changes made To select an equipment type use the up arrow to highlight the Equipment field and then use the right or left arrows to scroll through the various options When the desired option appears press the ESC function key or arrow down to ESC on the window display and press Enter Before taking a shot use this menu to specify your current occupy point and backsight point or azimuth Entering a backsight point will calculate and display the backsight azimuth and bearing automatically Highlight the Azimuth field and use your right or left arrow keys to toggle the display You may also highlight the Instrument Height and Target Height fields to enter these values Choose ESC to exit the SetUp menu and save the current values Job Options O Use the job options menu to configure SurvStar for your particular project needs Once you exit this menu all settings will be saved and recalled automatically every time you run SurvStar The opti
113. e eene eee een 6 81 Stationing SN siacssstscrssvsccscecdasrdcescvassasaccanscassacdssescdasdesssavesassesecsnccccena 6 87 pT ice D TR M mE NINE RSEN 6 90 View Sereen Vie 6 92 UnISIUILCT n A 1 A Instrument Communications Settings ses A 1 B Instructions for Using Pacific Crest Radios with Novatel A 2 C Sample Code grec et A 3 D Constants and Conversion Factors ss A 4 E Trouble Shooting Guide sscccscsssscssssseccssssescsscssessscccseeees A 5 F Common DOS Commands ssesesooeseooessscossoossssoosesooesssocseooesssosse A 6 G SurvStar Menu Structure GPS sssssssssssesseseseeesse A 7 H SurvStar Menu Structure Total Stations A 8 I SurvStar Hot K ys iociceseeseesei taie sentita peb a ink V o kae dg aep ee epe Ee epa ee Va eR A 9 ln wee anne Re Ca emer eer a Chapter 1 Overview Introduction SurvStar is a complete real time data collection system that interfaces with both total stations and GPS receivers The program runs on the MicroFlex DAP 9500 amp 9800 Husky FS 2 amp FS 3 and HP Palmtop 100 amp 200 as well as any IBM compatible laptop Due to subtle differences in screen formatting and serial communications among the DAP HUSKY HP and PC there are different versions of SurvStar for each ofthese platforms The first thing you should do is make sure that you have the correct version of SurvStar for the computer platform you will be usin
114. e gun to zero Offset The Offset menu appear as follows Point Offset 1 Distance Angle 2 Plus Minus Enter Choice The first option will take two separate shots the first to record slope distance and the second to record angle measurements Use this option to record difficult shots by first aiming at a prism held at the same distance and height from the gun as the target and then turning the gun towards the target to record without the prism horizontal and vertical angles You will be prompted to hit Enter when ready before each shot The second option will prompt you first for a horizontal distance either positive or negative between the prism and the target point Once you hit enter the program will proceed to take a shot and then apply this horizontal offset value to the slope distance using the measured vertical and horizontal angles Page 5 12 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Closed Horizon The Closed Horizon option will take a series of 4 shots Foresight Direct Foresight Reverse Backsight Direct Backsight Reverse You will be prompted to hit enter before each shot Infor mation about these shots will be stored in the raw file rw5 Stakeout S When you enter the Stakeout Option you will see the following menu Stakeout Methods 1 Enter Coordinates 2 By Point Number 3 Enter Station Offset Options 4 Report No Select one ofthe three stakeout methods Next will appe
115. e measured distance will be greater than the state plane distance because of the greater earth radius at that altitude Similarly if you are surveying at a substantial offset to the central meridian measured distances must be adjusted to correspond to state plane distances If you are working with state plane coordinates and are traversing locally from a monument in an area of fairly uniform elevation state plane coordinates can be maintained by combining the elevation factor and meridian offset factor into one number suchas 99897 All distances traversed or sideshot will then be multiplied by this number Use a factor of 1 when doing calculation work based on previously computed field coordinates Since Coordinate Transformation can be used to move field coordinates on State Plane Coordinates the user may choose to do all field work with config item 8 set for 1 SurvCOGO Page 6 5 One surprising application ofitem 8 is thatit can be used to enter poles and chains directly To work in chains 66 feet enter 66 foritem 8 To workin poles enter 16 5 foritem 8 Any positive nonzero entry is acceptable Item 18 DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IE DEG MIN SEC Y OR N IfN is entered bearings and distances print out as numbers only For example for 360 circle work see config item 20 bearings would print out as shown in Table 6 2 Itis very difficult to configure for both 1 line format and descriptive text Descriptions will certainly not fit on the line
116. e not included in processing the position Solution Reset Full Initialize This forces the Ashtech to resolve the position Satellite Position This option shows a sky plot of the satellite positions The locked number is the number of satellites being used in the position solution The available number is the number of satellites being tracked If there is a number of available satellites but the locked number is zero then the rover is not processing the fixed position In this case make sure that the base 1s sending the phase differential and that the radio connection is working Fast CPD This option toggles between off and on With Fast CPD on the Ashtech system will solve the position more quickly and the system is less likely to lose lock when temporarily interrupted by an obstruction With Fast CPD on the solution is more accurate with a lower RMS This setting is relevant for the rover only Page 4 16 Data Collection GPS Record Interval This is the Ashtech recording interval in seconds This is equivalent to the INTVL setting on the Z12 Screen 4 Site Name This sets the site name On the Z12 it is displayed in screen 9 Ambiguity Fixing Parameter This option controls the confidence system locked on to the correct position At a lower confidence interval the system solves much faster This setting is a number that ranges from 1 to 5 where 1 is the fastest with low confidence and 5 is the slowest with high confi dence
117. earing from 1 to 2 of N 44 deg 14 min 30 sec E then the points can be rotated by specifying base point 1 reference point 2 and desired bearing The program will give the option to rotate all points or just a specific range of points SurvCOGO Page 6 81 COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION BEARING REFERENCE 4 FIELD ROTATION BASE PT 1 SURVEY TEN REFERENCE PT 2 QUADRANT 1 BEARING 44 1430 TRANSFORMED 2 ASSURED 3 SURVEY RUE An KNOWN BEARING 1 NE 44 DEG 14 HIN 30 SEC PIVOT PT FIGURE 6 34 The second option P allows the user to move from one coordinate system to another by pairing known points in one system with known points in another system If more than two pairs of points are compared the program will conduct a least squares best fit to determine the optimal rotation translation factors Figure 6 35 shows an example of moving from one coordinate system to another Page 6 82 SurvCOGO COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION POINT REFERENCE 2 T0 99 COORDINATE SYSTEM 2 IE STATE PLANE porn NUMBER IN 4ST SYSTEM 1 MBER IN 2ND SYSTEM 98 C0 ORDINATE SYSTEM 1 POINT NUMBER IN 1ST SYSTEH 2 POINT NUMBER IN 2ND SYSTEM 99 FIGURE 6 35 As with option B an entire file or arange of points can be transformed Points with 0 coordinates are not changed by coordinate transformation Coordinate Transformation Point Reference Example In Figure 6 35 the first coordinate system consists of field shots
118. elevation is calculated The Stake Offset is where the stake point horizontal position x y is positioned This applies for example to staking the back of a curb where the Design Offset is 12 but the stake offset is 17 5 behind the back of curb with the elevation reference to the actual back of curb design elevation After these inputs the stake point is determined and the program brings up the bull s eye stakeout screen to guide you to the point When you reach the point press Enter to finish the stakeout The program will then report the cut fill and horizontal offset from the current position to the stake point Centerline Position CP This command calculates the station and offset of a point relative to a centerline The centerline is stored in a cl file which can be created in SurvCadd or with the 4th option Enter Centerline in the Roadwork menu The point coordinates can be entered directly specified by a point number in the current coordinate file or read from the GPS receiver There is an option to store the point with the station and offset recorded automatically in the point description Before calculating the offset value the program will prompt you for a Description Prefix This prefix will be added to the beginning of the new point descriptions To exit Centerline Position just press Enter after leaving the point or Data Collection GPS Page 4 33 northing blank or press X when prompted to re
119. em 24 is set to BR printouts will be in bearing form Ifitem 24 is set to AZ printouts will be in the form ofazimuths 360 or 400 circle 2 10100 10400 e 1 10000 10000 3 9900 10450 FIGURE 6 19 Inthe example above we want to compute the bearings from to 2 and fromlto3 Using the Inverse Routine we begin by pressing I We are prompted SurvCOGO Page 6 49 POINT 1 POINT 2 POINT 1 POINT 3 POINT SS This would transfer to the sideshot routine holding the backsight to 3 The printout for the above entries with config item 6 set to 6 Y and 18 set to Y might appear as follows INV NW 82 DEG 15 MIN 47 SEC 192 71 FEET 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 INV NE 75 DEG 57 MIN 50 SEC 412 31 FEET 2 10100 0000 10400 0000 INV SE 77 DEG 57 MIN 50 SEC 412 31 FEET 1 10000 0000 10000 0000 INV SE 77 DEG 28 MIN 16 SEC 460 98 FEET 3 9900 0000 10450 0000 Note that we obtained an odd bearing to lof NW 82 15 47 This is the bearing from the point we previously occupied to 1 If you wantto avoid the printing of that bearing to dress up the appearance ofthe final printout inverse tol by using menuitem IA INVERSE WITH AREA IA prints the starting coordinate only Then switch to menu item I for Inverse Sideshot Inverse The goal of the above example was to obtain the bearing and distance from to 2 and from to 3 Using inverse an extra step was involved inversing back from 2 to 1 This can be avoided by use of Sides
120. emonstration section file A DATA DEMO TPL demonstration template file Note The COM Ports for the DAP and the PC do not necessarily have to be the same However the Baud rate settings must be the same Page 1 8 Overview HP Palmtop Many ofthe functions ofthe HP Palmtop work exactly as they do on your desktop or laptop PC For example if you need to reboot your HP just press the Ctrl Alt and Del keys at the same time Also for most of the HP software programs you can use AIt F and X to exit as you would on your PC When you are running DOS programs such as SurvStar on your HP you can toggle the size of the text using the Fn key plus the space bar zoom To set the Caps Lock press one of the shift keys the up arrow keys to the left and right of the space bar then press the 0 key Another thing to know before beginning SurvStar is how to exit out to DOS Simply pressing the DOS key C gt will not be sufficient because substantial memory used by the System Manager will not be available to run SurvStar To exit completely to DOS press the amp application key Then press Alt A Applications T Terminate All Say yes to the dialog box Once in DOS you can return to the System Manager by typing 100 and enter for HP100 or 200 and enter for HP200 Default File Transfer Following is a list of steps to take to transfer files between the HP and PC using the HP program DataComm 1 Select the DataComm program
121. entered PI station and elevation It leads to the calculation menu after the generic profile Is entered as does the command RECALL GENERIC PROFILE Profiles in SurvCOGO and SurvCadd are ASCII files that store with a PRO extension as in ROAD PRO They take the form Data Collection GPS Page 4 37 Station Elevation Length of Vertical Curve For example our road profile appears as follows in a text editor 1500 945 0 1900 955 5 400 2400 948 0 0 0 0 A user could enter such a profile in a text editor and then download it to the data subdirectory on the DAP or Husky or other controller Profile View PV This commandallows you to verify that a profile file is correct by viewing the file or viewing a graphics plot Profile Input Edit PE PYC STA 1700 00 ELEVATION 1001 00 PYI STA 2400 00 ELEVATION 1005 00 PVT STA 3400 00 ELEVATION 1004 00 200 00 vC 1010 1010 1000 290 0 400 0 50 1 00 1 50 2 00 2 50 3 00 3430 Page 4 38 Data Collection GPS This command edits the station elevation and vertical curve data in a profile file The profile data is displayed in a spreadsheet editor The columns show the station elevation vertical curve left vertical curve right and vertical curve total Use the arrow keys to highlight an entry to edit When the field is highlighted you can type in the new number To end the routine type the ESC key The program will then ask if you want to s
122. entered in feet or meters with Metric configuration HGT OF TARGET entered in feet or meters POINT NUMBER 13 Enter HIV to activate the vertical difference method of carrying elevations Prompting appears as ANGLE CODE ANGLE BEARING DISTANCE SurvCOGO Page 6 21 HGT OF INSTR HGT OF TARGET VERT DIF POINTNUMBER These elevation modes are in addition to the default mode of traversing in a 3 D file ANGLES CODE ANGLE BEARING DISTANCE ZENITH ANGLE PRISM 4 POINT NUMBER SideShot SS Application To enter any number of field shots taken from one setup To calculate coordinates radiating from one point Features Sideshots require the same input as in the Traverse Routine In Sideshot mode the program calculates foresights without moving from the setup The backsight is held and does not have to be reentered with each new sideshot 5 SIGHT BACKSIGHT IS HELD POINT ANGLES CAN BE TURNED RIGHT AS ABOVE OR LEFT OFF OF THE BACKSIGHT IN ANY ORDER FIGURE 6 7 Page 6 22 SurvCOGO Procedure Press SS for sideshot In field surveying itis generally desirable to have as few setups as possible Therefore most surveys consists of a large number of sideshots and a more limited number of traverse legs Sideshots are usually taken in angle right mode or azimuth mode In angle right mode the procedure is to inverse or traverse from backsight to setup and then to press SS Inazimuth mode the user
123. enu screen The function menus for the HUSKY look like this First menu ESC F1 TRV F2 SS F3 INV F4 PT End MORE Second menu ESC F1 BSCK F2 OSET F3 CLHZ Home MORE These menus show you how the function keys are used To scroll from one menu to the other use the keys Home and End which is done by Shift Right Arrow or Shift Left Arrow Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 9 The function menu for the HP Palmtop looks like this ESC TR SS IN PT BS OS CL Use the ESC button to escape back to the main menu the F1 key to Traverse and the F2 key to take a SideShot For Inverse use F3 and to go to the Point Menu use F4 Do a Backsight Check with F5 take an Offset shot with F6 and a Closed Horizon with F7 Taking a Shot From the data collector select which type of shot TRV SS etc and the following screen should appear Shooting the Gun The SurvStar program will trigger the gun and retrieve data automatically so no other key presses are necessary at the total station Once the traverse or side shot is complete a menu appears Screen 2 similar to the one shown below Occupy Point 2 gt Angle Right 135 11 right arrow key toggles through azimuth angle left etc gt Slope Distance 200 3 right arrow key toggles through horizontal distance gt Zenith Angle 88 5123 right arrow key toggles through vertical angle elev diff etc HI 5 10 HT 4 70 Foresight Point 3 Desc fence ESC
124. er of points in the triangulation file is 500 The template design files include the centerline cl file vertical profile pro file and template file tpl file Superelevation sup file and template transition tpt file can optionally be applied Using the entered or read coordinate SurvStar calculates the station and offset for the coordinate Then the road design is calculated at that station and the template elevation is computed for the offset The road design files can be created in SurvCadd or with SurvStar under the Roadwork menu Roadwork R Go to the Roadwork menu for any ofthe five following options Centerline Position Slope Staking Enter Template Enter Centerline Enter Profile ASN D Centerline Position This command calculates the station and offset of a point relative to a centerline The centerline is stored in a cl file which can be created in SurvCadd or with the 4th option Enter Centerline in the Roadwork menu The point coordinates can be entered directly specified by a point number in the current coordinate file or read from the total station You will be given an option to store the point with the station and offset recorded automatically in the point description Before calculating the offset value the program will prompt you for a Description Prefix This prefix will be added to the beginning ofthe new point descriptions To exit Centerline Position just press enter after leaving the po
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126. ext key operation Operate the V H switch and the ET 2 will display 00000000 while flashing the 1st digit right if it is not changed before Move the flashing position to the 2nd digit A flashing position can be shifted each time by operating the V H switch Operate the REC switch the 2nd digit will be changed into 1 Operate the F switch The ET 2 will again display nothing but the meter feet and the degree grad unit which indicates the necessary setting is complete Turn off the power Again this setting is not necessary but it may prevent possible communications errors from occurring Zeiss Before beginning data collection with the Zeiss total station it is important to ensure that the communication parameters are correctly set on the instrument For the Elta 4 these parameters cannot be changed so no extra setting up is required For both the Elta 50 and the RL communi Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 7 cations parameters must be set to 9600 baud rate No Parity 8 Data Bits and 1 Stop Bit To change this setting on the Elta 50 hold down the ON key and press the MENU button Scroll down to the Setting Interface option and press Yes Scroll down to Parity press the MOD key until NONE is displayed Scroll down to Baud Rate and press the MOD key until 9600 is displayed Once this is done press ESC to exit back to the main menu and save ch
127. f you plan to transfer large files you may wish to increase the baud rate setting for faster transfer SurvStar will automatically adjust on the data collector end and reconnect at the new baud rate Be sure to click Save Options before going on so that all settings are remem bered the next time and you can bypass this options screen Also keep in mind that you can always bring this window back and modify your settings later by clicking the Options button from the File Transfer Utility screen that appears in figure 3 5 As with the DOS version of the transfer program this screen displays files from your local PC directory on the left and files from your data collector on the right If you wish to change the directory of either system click the Set Path button Select Local PC or Remote then type in the path name of the desired directory Click OK You may also choose to make a new directory or Page 3 12 General Functions File Transfer Utility Lx Local PC Remote Path CAXSCDEVADATA Path CADATA Total Files 40 Total Files 45 Bytes 11072K Bytes 48473 Bytes free 291425792 Bytes free 6496256 Local PC Remote 03 08 95 CAR REF 33 09 17 98 04 05 94 CONFIG PIK 172 10 06 98 04 05 94 T1 10 01 98 09 17 98 1910 10 01 98 1926 10 01 98 09 17 98 07 31 97 05 12 97 10 27 95 768 03 06 98 841 03 06 98 163 08 11 98 03 25 96 LARGE NOT 4380 08 11 98 v File TaggedFiles 0 Bytes
128. for Average This option allows you to take an average reading at the end of the stakeout routine instead of just a single shot If you still wish to use only a single shot set this value to 1 Otherwise when you exit the Stakeout bull s eye screen SurvStar will read from the GPS as many times as you have specified here and take an average of all shots for the final stakeout position Laser Gun Options Menu LO Type Select the correct type of Laser Gun you are using Current options are the Laser Atlanta and the Impulse Laser IP200 format or CR400 format If using an impulse laser it is suggested to use the IP200 format 9600 baud rate See the equipment user manual for instructions on selecting a communication format Laser Alignment Azimuth This value is the rotation between the GPS coordinate system and the laser gun The laser is used to calculate the azimuth and offset in the Offset Point Entry mode of the Store Point command The rotation difference is determined by entering an occupied point and a reference point and then setting up on the occupied point and measuring the azimuth to the reference point with the laser The difference between the laser azimuth and the calculated azimuth is the alignment azimuth Laser COM Port This is the COM port number for connection from the computer to the laser gun The default is port 2 which is the upper right port on the Husky Rod Height RH This value is the height ofthe rover ante
129. for purposes of carrying elevations is discussed in the next section Carrying Elevations There are four methods of carrying elevations using the main COGO program These methods are as follows 1 From the backsight forward based on the zenith vertical angle Default method 2 From the setup forward based on the heights of instrument and target and the zenith vertical angle HI method 3 Fromthesetup forward based onthe heights ofinstrument andtarget and the vertical difference from instrument to target HIV method Method 1 Prism Carrying Elevations from the Backsight Refer to Figure 6 9 The theory behind Method 1 isthatthezenith vertical angle combined with the slope distance determines the vertical difference ofall backsight and foresight shots If the prism pole height is not changed entry ofthe backsight shot will transfer the backsight elevation forward to the setup Entry of the foresight shot information will transfer the elevation from the setup to the foresight The setup simply acts as a pivot point Ifthe prism pole height changes on a certain foresight entry of the amount of change prism will allow for calculation of the foresight elevation Furthermore ifthe prism height is set to equal the height of the instrument then even the setup elevation as calculated by the initial backsight to setup traverse will be correct SurvCOGO Page 6 27 6 m PRISH 1 4 24 95 METHOD 1 TRAVERSE THE BACKSIGHT T
130. g The SurvStar system allows you to record survey data stakeout points and apply real time coordi nate data to design elements such as surface models centerlines and templates Much of SurvStar is derived from SurvCadd Carlson Software s inside AutoCAD program that consists of COGO De sign DTM Contour Section Profile Hydrology and Mining SurvStar also includes SurvCOGO which is Carlson Software s original full featured COGO program This manual explains the fea tures of SurvStar and some essentials about the DAP Husky and HP data collectors For additional information about the total station GPS receiver or hand held computer you will be using please refer to the equipment manufacturer s user manual Because most hand held data collectors do not have disk drives or even PCMCIA card slots transfer programs are necessary that connect the serial COM port of your PC to the serial COM port of the data collector Once the two are connected you can generally transfer files from one to the other as you would from one directory to another For each data collector manufacturer there is a different default file transfer program that will be necessary for the SurvStar installation process These will all be discussed here in Chapter 1 Once SurvStar has been installed you will be able to use the SurvStar File Utilities transfer program which is the same for all data collectors This feature is covered in Chapter 3 Husky Before starting Surv
131. g 12 2 Tab Elevation on 2 line for Dap 1 line for Husky 13 5 Tab Bearing 14 7 Tab Degrees 15 17 Tab Dash Dash occurs with item 18 set to Y 169 17 Tab Distance 17 N Extra Decimal Y N distances to 3 decimals bearings to 1 18 N Deg Min Sec Y N display the word degrees etc 19 1 9600 Plotter Port Baud not applicable to data collectors 20 FZ Feet and Zenith mode M 400 metric m 360 metric V vertical 21 ABC Angle Code Mode AR angle right AZI azimuth Page 6 2 SurvCOGO 22 80C 80 column printer versus 132C for 132 column printer Q3 Y Description Text you can configure text off with N 24 BR Bearing Print Mode AZ for north azimuth SAZ for south azimuth 25 1 9600 Com Port Baud for communication irrelevant on DAP Husky 26 15 Foreground Color 15 is bright white 7 is normal white 27 1 Background Color 1 is blue no effect on monochrome screen 28 1 Border Color 1 is blue no effect on monochrome screen 29 0 Earth Curvature Refraction 0 Off 1 On applies to traverse ss Itshould be noted that SurvCOGO can be transferred to a PC where typing ON at the menu initiates printer output When working from a PC items 9 through 18 become critical for setting the style of the printout Here are two PC based printout styles governed by configuration items 9 through 18 TABLE 6 2 ENGLISH 1 LINE CONFIGURATION ITEM STATUS CONFIGURATION 1 IBME COMPUTER Q EP PRINTER 3 C
132. ght translate to fence post upon download The UP and DOWN options allow for review of adjacent points You can also enter new points by highlighting the Point field and entering in a new point number then arrow down through the fields and enter appropriate values Once you have entered values for Northing Easting or Elevation you can toggle the highlighted number from positive to negative by pressing the key Shift K on the HUSKY FCT on the DAP 9500 Point numbers can notbe negative Don t forget to STORE any new or modified points before exiting this menu SurvStar will not save these changes automatically and will not prompt you when you exit Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 11 Backsight Check The Backsight Check screen appears as follows N 5100 0000 E 5100 0000 EL 1000 0000 Backsight Point 1 Occupy Point 20 Horizontal Angle 225 0000 gt Slope Distance 12 254 right arrow toggles through horizontal distance gt Vertical Angle 5 1425 right arrow toggles through vertical angle elev diff etc DIFF N 0 8226 E 0 0610 EL 0 0124 ESC ZEROHz Before entering this menu SurvStar will take a sideshot with the total station and display the horizontal angle slope distance etc SurvStar will also calculate the difference in Northing Easting and Elevation between the Backsight point and the current target point Use the ZEROHz option from this menu to set the horizontal angle on th
133. gt RETURN DEFINE BASELINE BY 2 PT 4S BASELINE POINT 7 BASELINE POINT 8 ANGLE BEARING CODE 2 BEARING 70 ADJUST ALL COORDINATES Y lt N gt RETURN Note Forpure rotation adjust all coordinates unless you are concerned with a particularrange of points STARTPT FOR RELOCATED PTS RET IF SAME RETURN MORE POINTS Y lt N gt RETURN The program prints NORTH TRANSLATION 1846 7379 EAST TRANSLATION 3152 5146 SCALE FACTOR 1 always with bearing reference option ROTATION ANGLE DD MMSS 331 1239 Notethat the bearing reference approach can be duplicated by the pointreference option by traversing the desired bearing from 7 to 20 using the same distance from 7 to 8 Then pair 7 system 1 to 7 system 2 and 8 system 1 to 20 system 2 In Metric 400 circle mode with ABC ANGLE BEARING CODE prompting active use 5 azimuth for the angle code entry There is no transfer prompt within Coordinate Transformation If you want to escape the routine press F3 or F5 with RETURN SurvCOGO Page 6 85 ROTATION 3 e D N COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FIGURE 6 36 Page 6 86 SurvCOGO Stationing SN STATIONING FIGURE 6 37 Application To enter centerlines for calculation of stations and offsets and for stakeout Centerlines are one of three required elements in template based stakeout the others being the profile and template itself Procedure Select option SN from the COGO menu The comma
134. h 4 15 Intersect 6 66 6 72 6 75 Inverse 5 4 6 49 6 51 Display 3 4 4 3 C Scale Factor 4 4 Carlson Survey 3 11 L Centerline 4 28 4 33 4 34 5 14 5 15 5 18 6 87 Laser 4 8 4 28 Leica 4 18 Change Key 2 1 List Points 3 2 6 60 Code File 4 7 5 4 COM 1 8 M COM Port 4 3 4 8 5 2 config pik 6 2 MICROFLEX See DAP Coordinate File 4 3 4 8 5 1 Format 4 5 5 2 N Modifying 6 57 Nikon 5 4 5 5 Coordinate Transformation 3 1 6 81 Notes CRD GIS 4 6 4 25 5 3 D Latitude Longitude 4 7 Point Data 5 4 DAP 1 7 1 8 RMS 4 6 4 25 Demo Files 1 11 Rod Height 4 6 4 25 DISK 2 2 State Plane 4 7 Storing 4 5 4 24 5 2 F NovAtel 4 12 File Transfer 3 11 O G Offset 6 77 Geodimeter 5 4 5 5 P GIS 3 8 4 6 5 3 Grid 4 28 5 15 6 5 Point Store 4 22 Automatic 4 23 H Average 4 24 Beep 4 5 4 25 5 2 HCOM 1 3 Enter amp Edit Coords 4 24 Monitor 4 24 Offset Entry 4 24 Standard 4 22 Process GPS Raw File 4 7 4 10 Profile 4 28 4 35 5 15 5 19 R Reboot 1 2 1 5 1 6 RMS Tolerance 4 3 Rod Height 4 7 4 8 S Scale Factor Inverse 4 4 Project 4 4 6 5 Sideshot 6 22 Slope Staking 4 29 5 15 South Azimuth 4 3 5 4 6 3 Stakeout 4 7 5 4 6 61 State Plane Coordinates 3 1 4 3 4 7 Station 6 42 6 87 Superelevation 4 29 5 15 SurvCADD 3 11 4 29 5 4 5 14 5 15 5 16 SurvCOGO 5 2 6 1 T Template 4 29 4 39 5 15 5 17 Template Transition 4 29 5 15 Topcon 5 6 Traverse 6 9 Triangulation 4
135. he catch point is reported as the offset difference Offset Diff Next to the number is either IN or OUT The OUT means you should move out from the Data Collection GPS Page 4 31 centerline The IN means that the catch point is closer to the centerline Based on this offset differ ence you move perpendicular to the centerline either towards or away from the centerline to reach a new offset from the centerline while maintaining approximately the same station Be sure to check the current station which is reported on the third line in case you have moved away from the stakeout station Current 5000 0 5000 0 Station Offset Elev 60 00 28 53 1000 0 Catch 4994 1 4985 6 Station Offset Elev 60 00 18 00 994 94 Offset Diff 10 53 IN When the catch point is located press Enter to end the slope staking The program reports that catch point offset elevation and the horizontal and vertical distances from the catch point to the pivot point and the Template Report ID point Station 60 00 Catch Offset 18 00 Catch Elev 999 94 Catch to Pivot SH H 3 00 V 1 50 FILL Catch to CENTER H 18 00 V 1 78 FILL Next there is an option to store the catch point to the current coordinate file Then there is an option to locate an offset point The program prompts for the station and offset of the offset point to stakeout The offset to stake can be entered as a distance from the catch point Locate offset point lt Y gt N Y
136. he install program will then ask you to connect the DAP to your computer Connect the DAP with the supplied cable and begin the COM program as explained earlier on the DAP Make sure that the baud rate is set to the same value on both the DAP and the computer When you are ready press ENTER to begin the installation The install process may take as long as ten to fifteen minutes The program will exit back to DOS when the process is complete The SurvStar files are as follows A STAR BAT routine to start SurvStar A SURVSTAR SURVSTAR EXE the main SurvStar program A SURVSTAR SURVDAP EXE the SurvCOGO program in SurvStar A SURVSTAR VIEWDAP EXE the View Screen program in SurvStar A SURVSTAR GPS INI user settings A SURVSTAR SP83 GPS data tables required for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR SP83 TXT text labels for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR SP27 GPS data tables required for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR SP27 TXT text labels for state plane 83 A SURVSTAR UTM TXT text labels for UTM datum regions A SURVSTAR TITLE TXT opening screen for SurvStar A SURVSTAR LITT CHR a font file A SURVSTAR SURVCOGO HLP SurvCOGO help file A SURVSTAR KEYS HLP SurvStar Hot Keys help file A SURVSTAR CGA BGI needed for graphics A DATA CONFIG PIK default configuration file for SurvCOGO A DATA DEMO CL demonstration centerline file A DATA DEMO GRD demonstration grid file A DATA DEMO PRO demonstration profile A DATA DEMO SCT d
137. he transfer exe Page 3 10 General Functions file should be moved to your PC in either the directory where you intend to put downloaded data files or in your path i e c Winnt35 or c batch where it can be accessed from any directory Transfer exe from Carlson Software This program can be run from inside SurvStar and is handy way to download data files to your PC without exiting the data collection program Also this program can be run from inside Carlson Software s SurvCADD and Carlson Survey software packages To begin file transfer go to the File Utilities section from the main menu of SurvStar You will see a screen that looks similar to the one below File Transfer Utility Version lt C Carlson Software press ESC to exit FIGURE 3 2 If you are not currently a SurvCADD or Carlson Survey user you may choose to run the transfer program on your PC from the DOS prompt by typing transfer and enter or by double clicking Y DOS transfer File Transfer Utilit Total Files 31 Tagged Files 306458112 Bytes 1755828 Bytes al PG lt DIR gt 16 66 98 16 58 D lt DIR gt 63 86 98 68729795 63 52 68B ASC 1938 18 61 98 E 08 29 95 83 52 68B BAK 1935 18 61 98 8439 68 29 95 63 52 68B TPL 1938 18 61 98 18863 68 29 95 03 52 ABC PRO 16 81 98 788 16 65 98 18 42 ASHTEST BAK 68716798 GRADER INI 499 11 26 97 14 16 ASHTEST CRD 68 10 98 JCOM EXE 14130 08 28 98 17 21 ASHTEST DAT 68716798 LCOM CHR 12083 88 29 95 83
138. hot Inverse This is a hidden command To enter Sideshot Inverse first inverse to the base point in this case point 1 Then press SI Prompting is as follows SIDESHOT INVERSE POINT 2 POINT 3 Printouts are shown below SI NE 75 DEG 57 MIN 50 SEC 412 31 FEET 2 10100 0000 10400 0000 SI SE 77 DEG 28 MIN 16 SEC 460 98 FEET 3 9900 0000 10450 0000 Page 6 50 SurvCOGO Inverse with Area IA Application To obtain the area within closed figures Features Areas are computed around figures with any number of sides and simple curves including compound and reverse curves If config item 20 begins with F for English units areas are printed in square feet and acres If config item 20 begins with M for Metric units areas are printed in square meters and hectares If config item 20 begins with m for the Puerto Rican configuration areas are printed in square meters and cuerdas If the closed figure does not include curves and the points are numbered sequentially the area can be computed with one entry namely the starting point and ending point separated by a dash Procedure Press IA Enter the starting point number The starting point number can be anywhere onthe figure In figures with curves proceed clockwise In figures without curves the direction of inversing does not matter START l 0 9757 ACRES FIGURE 6 20 The area for the above 3 sided figure can be computed by either of the following methods INVERSE STARTING
139. ible views are Satellite Geometry Only Satellite Geom etry with PRN value and Text Mode You may also jump to this same satellite view screen from the Monitor GPS window Data Collection GPS Page 4 19 Reset Receiver On the 7400 this function will restore factory defaults On the 4000 you can either Re Solve Position Factory Restart Clear All RAM Power Cycle or Re Solve with Power Cycle Battery Remaining This will tell you the percentage of battery life remaining Simulate Keyboard Press From this function you can simulate several of the more commonly used keys from the Trimble face Power Off This function will turn off the Trimble receiver Setup Base Station For the 7400 receiver this feature will go through all of the key presses neces sary to begin output of base station corrections The program will prompt you to output either RTCM or CMR and will also ask which port of the Trimble to send corrections to Trimble 2 GPS Control 1 Equip Type Trimble Cycle 2 Message Type Pos Type 2 3 Send Command to Receiver Choice Esc Exit Equip Type If the correct equipment type is not displayed here press one Then select from a list of equipment types Message Type Possible values are Pos Type 2 or NMEA GGK Send Command to Receiver This routine allows you to send a command to the GPS receiver If you need to set or read a feature on the GPS receiver that is not in the SurvStar Setup comman
140. ice will be sent Note The Store Latitude Longitude and Store State Plane features are no longer available due to the existence ofthe GPS raw file Latitude and Longitude values for all GPS collected points will be stored in the raw file automatically To create a file of State Plane values for your GPS collected points go to the Process GPS Raw File function and select State Plane at the Type of File to Create prompt Fora file consisting of Latitude and Longitude coordinates for your points select the Latitude Longitude option at this prompt Stakeout Options Menu SO Display RMS or CEP in Stakeout This option will show the RMS value within the bull s eye Data Collection GPS Page 4 7 stakeout screen The only disadvantage to having this option active is that it slows down the stakeout position update Draw Trail in Stakeout As you approach the target in the center of the bull s eye this option will draw a trail following your stakeout path Separate StakeOut CRD File This is an option to use a second coordinate file to store the staked points in the Stakeout routine StakeOut Report This option will create a stakeout report in the Stakeout routine StakeOut Tolerance This value is used in the Stakeout routine as the distance tolerance When storing the staked point the program will beep and display a warning ifthe staked point 1s further than this tolerance from the target point Num Readings
141. inates The state plane zone to use is defined under the Job Options menu Point Utilities U Select choice U from the Main Menu to enter the Point Utilities menu All features listed in this menu use the current coordinate file To select a different coordinate file use the General Options menu From the point utilities menu type in the number that corresponds to your choice and press enter You may also jump directly to any of these options from this menu or the Main Menu by using the letters in parenthesis following each option List Points L View Points V Inverse I Read Text File RT and Write Text File WT are all hot keys when entered from the Main Menu For example L with Enter from the Main Menu will go directly to the List Points command even though the actual prompt for List Points appears only within Point Utilities General Functions Page 3 1 Point Utilities 1 List Points L 2 View Points V 3 Inverse I 4 Read Text File RT 5 Write Text File WT 6 Edit GIS Notes GIS 7 Process GPS Raw File RAW Available with GPS only Choice Esc Exit Exit this menu by pressing Esc or typing X and Enter A full description of each of these options follows List Points L This command displays the point number northing easting elevation and description for points in the current coordinate file Point Notes can also be listed At the Range of points to list prompt you can press E
142. int or northing blank or press X when prompted to read the total station equipment Slope Staking Slope Staking is also located in the Roadwork menu This command uses coordinates read from the total station to model the existing ground and then applies a design template centerline and profile to calculate where the cut or fill slope intersects the existing ground Superelevation and template Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page 5 15 transitions can also be used The road design files can be created in SurvCadd and uploaded onto the data collector The template centerline and profile files can also be made in SurvStar under the Roadwork menu After specifying your road design files the program prompts for the Template elev difference point This is the template point description for calculating the elevation difference from the catch point to the template Each template grade has a description For example in the sample template shown on pages 4 23 and 4 24 the template elevation difference point could be SHD Then at the end of the routine when the catch point 1s found the elevation difference from the catch point to template point SHD is reported The next step is to locate the station to stakeout When you have reached a point along the centerline press Enter to read the total station which reports this current station and offset If this station is unacceptable you can move to a new position and read the tota
143. ion allows you to choose which north to use Project Scale Factor After converting the LAT LONG from the GPS to the state plane coordinates and applying the Align Local Coordinates the Project Scale Factor is applied as the final adjustment to the coordinates This adjustment is used on the X Y and not the Z The Project Scale Factor is applied by dividing the distance between the coordinate and a base point by the Project Scale Factor The coordinate is then set by starting from the base point and moving in the direction to the coordinate for the adjusted distance The base point is the first point in Align Local Coordinates If there are no points specified in Align Local Coordinates then 0 0 is used as base point The Project Scale Factor can be entered directly or calculated using the grid factor and elevation for the current position When using the current position the program will read the LAT LONG from the GPS receiver The scale factor is then calculated as State Plane Grid Factor Elevation Earth Radius Auto Load Last Alignment This option will automatically load the last Align Local Coordinates setup Otherwise you need to run Align Local Coordinates and choose Load In order to use this Page 4 4 Data Collection GPS option the base GPS receiver must be in exactly the same location using the same Lat Long and elevation Two Point Align Method This option applies only to two point alignments Possible values are Fit
144. l printouts 2 decimal place distances and no decimal place on the seconds 2 Configuration item 20 is set for feet eg FZ 3 Configuration item 21 is set for ABC activating the Angle Code prompt 4 Configuration item 24 is set for BR which gives printouts in bearing form 5 TOFF was entered to eliminate the text prompting Zenith angle prompting is obtained by going to File Adjustment FA sub item D to go from the default 2 D mode to 3 D which carries elevations Alternately if a 2 D traverse is involved but zenith angles are used do FA item D again to go back to 2 D and choose the zenith prompt option Asanexample ofa completely different format consider a 400 circle metric traverse strictly in azimuth with the zenith angle used to reduce slope distances to horizontal distances We begin by selecting CF for configuration and change config item 20 to MZ config item 21 to AZI no angle code prompt all azimuth and config item 24 to AZ for azimuth printouts Asa last step we choose FA item D convert to 3 D then select it again convert to 2 D and ask for the zenith prompt SurvCOGO Page 6 15 LEGEND E TRAVERSE e T e CODES AZIMUTH 400 CIRCLE EXAMPLE Point Numbers are Circled AZ 265 41975 195 27 FIGURE 6 4 Starting with Enter amp Assign questions and printouts for the above example would be as follows E ENTER amp ASSIGN POINT NUMBER lt 1 gt 1 INPUT NORTH 5000 EASTIN
145. l station again to find another station When the desired station is reached the program begins the slope staking at this station as the stakeout station The side to stakeout is determined by the initial offset If the first offset is left of the centerline then the left template slope is used Likewise the right template slope is used when the first offset is right ofthe centerline The centerline elevation at the stakeout station 1s calculated using the design profile and then the template is applied The existing surface to tie into 1s defined by the elevations from the total station coordinates The point where the cut or fill slope from the template intersects the existing ground is called the catch point As each coordinate is read an existing surface cross section is built and the catch point is calculated The distance from the current position to the catch point is reported as the distance difference DIST DIFF The elevation difference from the current position to the catch point is also reported A positive distance difference means that the catch point is at a greater offset from the centerline than the current position and you should move out from the centerline A negative distance difference shows that the catch point is closer to the centerline Based on this distance difference you move perpendicular to the centerline either towards or away from the center line to reach a new offset while maintaining approximately the same station Whe
146. l time surveys Set Radio Channel This feature is valid only if you are using Pacific Crest radio modems with your NovAtel GPS equipment Whether you intend to change radio channels in the field or not your radios should be programmed to Transparent mode the default before using them with NovAtel receivers Note This has changed from version 1 43 For a full explanation of how to use this feature see Appendix B Check Comm Status Use this command at the rover monitor the number of correct or incorrect RTCA RTCM or CMR message have been received from the base station If you have trouble attained or keeping a fix solution use this feature to help trouble shoot where the problem lies PC Card Utilities You now have the ability to log static data to the PC card inside the DL without leaving SurvStar To use this new feature do the following a First you must have a PC card inserted into the PC slot of the DL receiver itself For a list of supported PCMCIA cards please contact NovAtel customer support the SanDisk 15MB Compact Flash Card is one that is supported b Once in SurvStar go to the Setup Menu SU and look for option 14 PC Card Utilities If this option does not appear then the DL receiver was not detected at start up Exit the Setup menu and come in again c Once in option 14 you will need to set up at least one Log Group Log Groups Page 4 14 Data Collection GPS are stored in the memory of the DL re
147. late file Once you have uploaded the files to the HP press F10 to hangup the connection Close the terminal program on the PC On the HP exit the DataComm program Exit to DOS by hitting the amp key the Fct A Applications T Terminate All Say yes to the dialog box Once in DOS type cd and enter until you get to the root directory Now the installation is complete You can type star from the Dos prompt to begin SurvStar If you wish to return to the regular HP icon screen exit SurvStar then from the Dos prompt type 100 for an HP100 or 200 for an HP200 and enter You will need to exit back to Dos again whenever you wish to run SurvStar Using Demonstration Files in SurvStar GPS Only 1 Alignment Pick an open area and do a one point alignment at 5000 5000 1000 1003 50 x 1004 37 92 CBe CRD x 1003 84 CB2 FIGURE 1 4 Overview Page 1 11 2 Grid Based Stakeout An area approximately 330 feet by 300 feet has been gridded and is stored as the file Demo grd This grid file slopes from approximately 995 on the south side to 1005 on the north with a pond as shown below of dimension 50x50 sloping down in the pond interior to a low point of 990 The point 5000 5000 1000 is the lower left pond corner You would select the option Elevation Difference option 1 Grid File Using the file Demo grd to check elevations you would take shots moving north and east of the reference point 5000 5000 1000 to i
148. ld called LOC and will prompt the user with Location The SIZE definition is an example of a default value of 24 When at the Ring Size lt 24 gt prompt the user can just press Enter to use this default value of 24 The INVERT definition is an example of a choice between Excellent Good Fair Poor and Bad At this prompt the user only has to type in the first character of any of these choices The MEAS Down definition is an example of an equation The key letters SEQN must appear at the very beginning of the default section to signal that this field is an equation Then the equation is entered using field names to represent their values or key words to represent northing easting or elevation point values The key words are as follows NOR Page 4 6 Data Collection GPS Northing EAS Easting SELV Elevation The equation is calculated from left to right normal order of precedence is ignored and regular numerical values may also be used The user will not see this prompt the first time the point is being stored but it will be displayed and updated whenever GIS data 1s edited through SurvStar Note If there is no default or equation for a field there must be exactly one space between the two commas that define the default area GIS File This is the File where the GIS field definitions are found When you select this option you will have two choices 1 Enter the name of the file Enter a filename up to eight charac
149. les to the right The setting in config item 21 determines the default condition in daily program use The default entry can be altered however by entering ABC AZI or AR from within the COGO routines When running the program the user can switch from one mode to the other at will ITEM 24 BEARING PRINTOUT MODE Bearings can print out in quadrant format eg NE SE SW NW or in azimuth format AZ or SAZ Ifset to BR bearing format will be used Ifset to AZ north azimuth format will be used Ifset to SAZ the south azimuth format will be used If config item 20 is set to MZ or MV the 400 circle grads is used to represent angles and azimuth printout mode is set automatically regardless of the item 24 configuration ITEM 29 CURVATURE OF EARTH FACTOR 0 off 1 on Ifset off 0 this item has no effects If set to 1 then elevations are adjusted in traverse sideshot both in COGO and ADVANCED TRAVERSE based on the curvature of the earth and the distance of the field shot The factor has a dramatic effect on long shots Ifa shot is taken for a distance of 1000 feet for example the shot has gone straight while the sea level plane of the earth has curved away beneath it Figure 6 1 depicts this in exaggerated form SurvCOGO Page 6 7 FIGURE 6 1 Ifa horizontal reading is taken the shot has actually gone uphill because of curvature ofthe earth The effect is negligible in short distances but increases exponentially as distance increa
150. llows Read Text File Full Name of Text File JONES DAT Number of Header Lines to Ignore 0 2 Project 74 5 and May 22 1997 File Preview 1 5000 5000 988 7 Shows you first point entry to remind you ofthe file format 1 P Y X Z D P Point Number Y Northing X Easting Z Elevation D Description 2 PYXZD 3 P Y X Z 4 PYXZ 5 X Y Z 6 Other File Format 3 Point Number Northing Easting Elevation Offset to Point Numbers lt 0 gt Enter If you entered a number here i e 100 that number will be added to each point number read For example point 1 in the text file will become point 101 in the coordinate file Overwrite existing points Y lt N gt Enter Ifthe program encounters a point number in the text Page 3 6 General Functions file that matches an already existing point in the CRD file the program will either overwrite the old point or assign the point values from the text file to the next available point number in the coordi nate file The default is to assign new point numbers and preserve all existing data After all this information has been entered the program will read in values from the text file and insert them into the current coordinate file As this is done the point numbers only will be dis played in the screen to keep you aprised of the status When the process is complete you will see the message Done reading file JONES DAT At this point press enter to return to the Point
151. llustrate how the final surface dips to 990 The program will report cut values as you move north and east of 5000 5000 towards the center of the pond In other areas a cut or fill value will be reported depending on how the terrain at your site varies from the terrain shown above 3 You can also demonstrate road related exercises For example R for roadwork option 3 Centerline Position can be shown using the centerline file Demo cl Move south of 5000 5000 towards the centerline and take a shot within this command You will be given the station and offset Alternately go to Stakeout and find a particular station and offset For template based grade staking choose Elevation Difference option 3 Template File You will be asked for the profile Demo You are not required to enter the extension for any SurvStar file centerline file Demo and template file Demo Press enter leaving all other files set to none as they will not be used here Then take any shot and get the exact station offset and elevation difference Experiment also with slope staking under Road Work menu Page 1 12 Overview Chapter 2 Getting Started Starting SurvStar The SurvStar start up program is called STAR BAT and can be run by typing STAR at the DOS prompt Be sure that you are in the root directory before typing STAR C gt CD or A gt CD for DAPs C gt STAR A gt STAR SurvStar Registration Each SurvStar is registered to
152. lt 1 gt OR 2 Enter it is typically more accurate to base profiles on the PI elevation STATION OF NEXT PI 1900 ELEVATION OF NEXT PI 955 5 LENGTH OF VERTICAL CURVE Page 4 36 Data Collection GPS 0 IF THIS IS END STATION U TO UNDO 400 note the vertical curve length is entered after the PI elevation STATION OF NEXT PI 2400 ELEVATION OF NEXT PI 948 0 LENGTH OF VERTICAL CURVE 0 IF THIS IS END STATION U TO UNDO 0 to end STORE PROFILE TO DISK lt Y gt N Enter PROFILE NAME RETURN END ROAD This leads to another menu that is handy for calculation SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING MENU 0 CALCULATE INTERVAL ELEVATIONS 1 CALCULATE SPECIFIC ELEVATIONS 2 CALCULATE HIGH LOW POINTS 3 CALCULATE SUBGRADE ELEVATIONS 4 RETURN TO PROFILE MENU 0 MAIN MENU 2 STATION 0 TO END 1872 3 18 72 3 953 24 STATION 0 TO END 2015 20415 953 4 STATION 0 TO END 0 The same calculation menu appears Select 3 for the high and low points 1954 55 953 59 Now select 5 to return to the local profile menu as opposed to the main COGO menu If2 is selected for RECALL ROAD PROFILE the same 5 option sub menu appears as above The RECALL ROAD PROFILE menu is entered automatically after completing MAKE ROAD PROFILE The same pattern holds true foroption3 MAKE GENERIC PROFILE Thisroutine differs from MAKE ROAD PROFILE by not asking for a length of vertical curve It will also report the percent grade to each newly
153. m will ask for the radius point number calculate the radius coordinates and then offer the option to calculate station coordinates The routine concludes by printing the curve data Horizontal Curve Option 3 The3 point on curve routine is useful for determining best fit curves from field data Three points determine a unique curve by the intersection oftheir perpendicular bisectors Procedure Press HC This obtains the horizontal curve menu Then select option 3 Prompting is as follows FIRST POINT 5 SECOND POINT 2 THIRD POINT 3 Printout HC 2 5070 7107 5070 7107 INTERSECT PT RADIUS PT PTZOFINTERSECTPT 9 HC 9 SE 71 00 00 166 89 5016 3766 5228 5086 HC 3 SE 19 00 00 166 89 4858 5786 5282 8427 FIRST POINT M for menu or continue in HC option 3 Horizontal Curve Option 4 This routine is similar to option 2 It requires entry of the PC point number the radius point number and any ofthe following the PT point number delta angle arc length or tangent length These need to be calculated previously 1e using curve options 1 2 3 or 5 Horizontal curve option 4 is most used when calculating areas around lots and figures see the section on Inverse with Area SurvCOGO Page 6 45 BPTION KROWN PC POINT RADIUS POINT AND PT POINT S RADIOS FIGURE 6 16 Option 4 can be entered using the PC prefix or by selecting menu item HC option 4 In the latter case the program will prompt PC START OF CURVE 2
154. ment file Once the alignment file has been read press enter to begin processing the raw file You will see the point numbers of the processed coordinates appear on screen When everything is complete you will get the message Done Press Enter After you press enter you will be returned to the Point Utilities Menu Press Esc to get back to the Main Menu If you want to resume work with your new coordinate file don t forget to go to the Job Options Menu and open the new file The purpose of this raw file process routine is twofold 1 If you failed to heed the warning to check your state plane zone Chapter 2 Getting Started you may have been working in the wrong state or the wrong country altogether You need to set the correct zone redo the alignment and then re process the raw data 2 If you did an initial GPS alignment but in the course of the work you picked up one or more additional quality alignment points or rejected some earlier alignment points you can re calculate all your work by the Process GPS Raw File command File Utilities F 1 File Transfer FT 2 File Manager FM Choice Esc Exit From the File Utilities menu you can choose either File Transfer or File Manager Both of these functions are described below File Transfer FT Included on the SurvStar diskette are two files jcom exe and transfer exe The jcom exe file should be placed on your data collector in the SurvStar directory See Chapter 1 T
155. move and shoot until you reach a point that is accept able Atthat point arrow key right to ACCEPT and press enter or use the F2 key A summary of the stakeout will be displayed and you will be given the option to store this point You are then returned to the setup screen where you can enter new coordinates to continue and stake out another point You may end stakeout by pressing the ESC key The second method of stakeout is exactly like the first except that the target coordinates are read from the coordinate file by entering the point number Use the arrow keys to highlight the Stake Point field Enter the point number here then verify that your occupy point backsight point instrument height and target height are set properly Press F1 to begin the stakeout When you are done staking out this point you will be prompted to stakeout the next point in the file Press ESC to exitthe stakeout routine Stakeout will end automatically after the highest point in the file has been staked The third method is to enter a station and offset which calculates the target coordinates using a centerline file A centerline file can be created in SurvCadd or in SurvStar under the 4th option of the Roadwork menu Once you have entered a station and offset stakeout will continue similar to the two previous methods At the end you will be given the opportunity to enter another station and offset To end the stakeout routine press ESC When the report op
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157. n be entered and the backsight point left blank The user can then traverse forward with TR sideshot with SS inverse to the next point with IN or simply enter and review point data with option PT There are also the options to check the backsight point BS store a point with an offset method OS orrecordaclosed horizonshot CL These options are activated by highlighting them and pressing Enter or by entering T S I P B O or C respectively Function Keys Youmay also use the function keys F1 F2 which correspond to each option For each data collector the function keys may differ slightly The function menu for the DAP 9500 looks like this TRV SS INV PT BSCK OSET CLZ For Traverse use Fct B or Fct 1 For SideShot Fct C or Fct 2 Inverse with Fct D or Fct 3 Activate the Point Menu with Fct E or Fct 4 For Backsight Check use Fct H or Fct 5 Offset with Fct I or Fct 6 Go to Close Horizon with Fct J or Fct 7 You may also use Fct A or Fct ESC to escape back to the main menu The function menus for the DAP 9800 look like this First menu TRV SS INV PT While this menu is displayed use F1 to Traverse F2 to Take a SideShot F3 to Inverse or F4 to go to the Point Menu To scroll to the next menu screen use the F5 key Second menu BSCK OSET CLOS While this menu is displayed use F1 to do a Backsight Check F2 to collect an Offset point or F3 to Close Horizon and F5 to scroll back to the first m
158. n key presses before it turns the backlight off Once the backlight times out just press any key to bring it back Option 5 is the time in seconds that the Dap will wait between key presses before turning the screen off Again once the screen times out press any key to bring it back Enabling either of these timeout features helps to conserve battery power in the field POWER SAVE Option 3 on this screen is the time in seconds that the Dap will wait before auto matically shutting down Automatic shut down will not reboot the Dap or cause you to lose any data but could be bothersome while running the software i e auto shut off could occur during stakeout or monitor To restore power press the B key Another important thing that you should know about your Dap 9500 is how to perform a system reboot One method for doing this is to hold the three keys B O S all at once for about 3 seconds Also if you have Ctrl Alt Del enabled in the Setup program look at the Keyboard option you can hold these three keys for approximately 3 seconds In some 9500 models there is also a reboot button located next to the PCMCIA slot inside the Dap It will be a small circular button depressed from the surface the larger rectangular button is the PCMCIA card eject button Overview Page 1 5 SETUP Ver 1 00 MAIN SET DATE OCT 08 1998 SET TIME 14 36 36 SCREEN TIMEOUT ACTIVE FONT SCROLLING KEY CLICK 120 0 YES OFF POWER MANAGEMENT
159. n of the arrow is relative to your previous position The distance each of the five circles represent depends on your distance from the target point The different scales are 1 10 100 and 1000 For example at 10 scale each circle represents 10 units So the first circle is 10 units away the second is 20 units away up to the fifth circle at 50 units The scale will be set automatically based on your distance to the target point To the right of the bull s eye or below on the DAP the scale is shown at the top followed by your current position X Y and Z Next the N value is the amount to move north to reach the target and the E value is the amount to move east The DIST value is the distance from the current position to the target and AZ is the azimuth If the rover loses communication with the base or the satellites the current position stops updating and No Position Data is displayed at the top When you have reached the target press Enter to exit the stakeout The rover position is read one more time and the distance and azimuth are reported There is an option to store this position in the coordinate file If you are staking out by point number you will also be asked if you would like to stake out the next point in the coordinate file At this prompt you may answer Y to stake out the point in brackets enter a point number to stake out or N to end the stake out session In this method once you reach the last point in the fil
160. n you reach the new position press Enter to read the total station which adds another offset elevation point to the existing surface cross section and recalculates the catch point and distance difference The current station is also reported next to the stakeout station in case you have moved away from the stakeout station When the catch point is located press X to end the slope staking Next there is an option to locate an offset point The program reports the station and offset ofthe catch point and then prompts for the station and offset of the point to stakeout To locate the offset point the standard total station stakeout routine is used see page 5 11 Page 5 16 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Enter Template This command is a very simple template design Much more detailed templates can be created in SurvCadd but this command allows you to create a template in the field One you start the Enter Template routine the program will prompt you for a template filename The template is stored in a tpl file You may select an existing filename or enter a new one Do not enter a file extension SurvStar will add this automatically The next prompt determines if the left side ofthe template will be the same as the right In the following example the left and right side grades are the same The program will then prompt for a series of grades starting from the centerline If the sides are non symmetrical the left side will
161. nd is not prompted for in the menu since it can be accessed using Design Centerline within Roadwork The menu appears as follows 1 MAKE NEW CENTERLINE 2 RECALL CENTERLINE 3 SAVE AS CENTERLINE 4 CALCULATE OFFSET PTS 0 END Enter will end as well Option 1 Make New Centerline requires that point numbers have been established for all PC s SurvCOGO Page 6 87 PT s and PI s of the centerline as well as for radius points Since it is necessary to establish point numbers for the above points we will do so using standard COGO Starting at 5000 5000 here are the entries necessary beginning with Enter amp Assign ENTER amp ASSIGN POINT NUMBER lt 1 gt Enter INPUT NORTH 5000 EASTING 5000 ELEVATION Enter POINT NUMBER lt 2 gt T for traverse TRAVERSEROUTINE ANGLE CODE 1 assume the first bearing is N 55 deg 35 min E 300 feet ANGLE BEARING gt 55 35 DISTANCE 300 POINT NUMBER lt 2 gt PC2 ifyou forgot to traverse to PC2 and entered just 2 you can always use I for inverse to go from 1 to PC2 to initiate the curve prompting SELECT CURVEOPTION 1 RADIUS AND DELTA ANGLE 2 PI AND PT NUMBERS 3 3 POINTSON CURVE 4 RADIUS AND PT 5 PIAND BOTHTANGENTS 1 2 4 FOR AREA 2 OR 4 FOR COMPOUND CURVE 1 this option is not simply radius and delta but allows arc length and tangent length entries as well CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt Enter for right RADIUS LENGTH 600
162. nd vertical distances from the catch point to the pivot point The Vertical offset option allows you to adjust the profile The Tem plate report ID is the template point description for calculating the horizontal and elevation difference from the catch point to the template Each template grade has a description For example in the sample template shown in the Template Design section the template elevation difference point could Page 4 30 Data Collection GPS be SHD Then at the end of the routine when the catch point is found the horizontal and elevation difference from the catch point to template point SHD is reported The C F Ratio Prompt option makes the program prompt for the cut and fill slopes for each slope stake The Store ground points option stores points to the current coordinate file crd as the program reads existing ground data from the GPS while locating the catch point Report File Vertical offset 0 000 Template report ID CENTER C F Ratio Prompt No Store ground points No The next step is to locate the station to stakeout The program begins to read GPS position and report the station and offset This station offset display updates in real time as you move When the desired station is reached press Enter and the program begins the slope staking at this station as the stakeout station The side to stakeout is determined by the initial offset If the first offset is left of the centerline then the left template
163. nna above the measured point This value is subtracted from the GPS coordinate to calculate the elevation of the point Page 4 8 Data Collection GPS Align Local Coordinates A SurvStar reads a LAT LONG position from the GPS receiver which is converted to a state plane coordinate Using local coordinate points and their corresponding GPS position Align Local Coordi nates applies a transformation to convert the state plane coordinate to the local SurvStar can operate in three different modes depending on the Align Local Coordinate settings No alignment One point alignment Two or more point alignment Without Align Local Coordinates set SurvStar will operate with no alignment which directly uses the state plane coordinates In order for the coordinates to be the true state plane coordinates in this alignment mode the GPS base receiver must be set up over a known point and the true Lat Long for the point must be entered in the base as the base position Otherwise if the base is set over an arbitrary point then the coordinates will not be true state plane In one point alignment mode one pair of GPS and local coordinates is specified in Align Local Coordinates The differences between the GPS and local northing easting and elevation for these points are used as the translation distances in the transformation The rotation will use either the state plane grid or the geodetic as north The rotation type is specified in the Alignment
164. note field for the point This offers a good check on the quality ofthe shot Rod Ht in Point Notes When storing a point this option will store the rod height value in the note field for the point Time Date in Point Notes This option will store the time and date that the point was stored in the note file SurvStar will read the time from your data collector Store GIS Data with Points When storing a point this option will prompt for and store additional descriptions for user defined fields in the note field for the point The fields to store are defined in a GIS file which contains a field definition on each line The definition line has the field name prompt and default value separated by commas If the field is a choice of options the definition line also has each choice separated by commas If the field s value is to be calculated automatically by an equation the equation takes the place ofthe default value The field s value is calculated automatically once the point is stored or edited For example consider the following GIS file to store information for manholes LOC Location MH Manhole Number MH Depth Ft Manhole Depth Feet MEAS Down Measure Down SEQN ELV MH Depth Ft SIZE Ring Size 24 MATERIAL Ring Material INVERT MH Invert Excellent Good Fair Poor Bad Excellent Good Fair Poor Bad LEAKS Manhole Leaks Yes No No Yes No GPM Approximate GPM BY Reviewed By The first line defines a fie
165. ns If the instrument you are using is not listed here please refer to the Topcon User s Guide The Topcon 300 Series 1 Turn on the power switch while pressing the S A T P key After showing all segments for approx 2 seconds the title of the selecting mode 1 will be shown SELECT 1 2 Show the selecting mode 3 by pressing the tz key twice SELECT 3 3 Set the selecting mode 3 by pressing the ANG key 4 The data previously set is shown with the most right digit digit No 1 blinking SELECT 3 5 Let the digit No 2 blink by pressing the HOLD key Set 1 for the digit by pressing the t key Page 5 6 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection SELECT 3 00000010 6 Press the ANG key SELECT 3 7 Turn off the power The Topcon 200 Series 1 2 3 4 5 6 Turn the power switch on while pressing the F2 key Press the F3 key to select the OTHERS SET menu Press the F4 key beneath the P to scroll to the second menu screen 2 2 Press the F3 key for CR LF Press F1 ON then F4 ENTER Turn the power switch off The Topcon ET 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Turn on the power switch while pressing the meter feet selector switch continuously until the buzzer sounds stop After indicating the software version number as FAC 10 10 the ET 2 will display nothing but the meter feet and the degree grad unit already set and will wait for the n
166. nter to list all the points or enter the point numbers to list with a dash to specify a range and a comma to specify individual points For example 1 5 12 15 would list points 1 2 3 4 5 12 15 Only six points are shown at a time in order to fit on the Husky screen PtNo North y East x Elev z Desc 1 5000 00 5000 00 110 00 2 4986 09 5010 25 113 03 GD 3 4974 77 5015 79 111 98 GD 4 4960 27 5019 02 110 42 GD 5 4965 92 5030 42 110 57 GD 6 4985 40 5010 39 113 34 2 X Exit Enter More Press Enter to continue to the next six points or X and Enter to return to the Main Menu View Points V Application To view points on the screen and to screen verify linear areas Features There are three methods of screen viewing 1 Zoom all all points are centered 2 Zoom point a specific point is centered Page 3 2 General Functions 3 Enter lower left coordinates Plotting is due north up the screen Once plotted points can be shifted up down left and right by frame factors where a 0 5 frame shift to the left would move all points leftward half the width of the frame Procedure Press V at the main menu or 2 at the Point Utilities menu The program will go into graphics mode and show the following menu lt A gt ZOOM ALL B ZOOM PT B ENTER LOWER COORDS A A is the default so you can press Enter to Zoom All A blank screen window will appear with a north arrow for orientation as shown below MAX SCALE 62 6758 DESI
167. nts at Interval AP This method stores a point whenever the distance or time from the previous point exceeds the user specified interval The program will prompt you Interval Type lt Distance gt Time Type D and Enter or simply enter to use a distance interval The program will then prompt you for an interval value After entering the distance interval to use an offset value if any and the description to assign each point the program will prompt you for the point number at which to start storing points The default is the highest point in the file plus one From whatever point number you choose to start at SurvStar will begin storing at the first unused point number Also if SurvStar encounters a point that already exists the program will skip to the next free point Next SurvStar begins to continuously read the GPS receiver As each point is read the coordinates and the distance from the last point are shown When a point is stored the point number and distance are displayed In practice the actual distance between stored points will be greater than the distance interval For example if the distance interval is 10 and the current distance is 8 9 then no point is stored Then you keep moving and the next distance is 11 4 which will store a point When you have finished storing a set of points press Enter X or Esc to stop the auto storing process The program will then prompt you for another description If you wish to c
168. o free up some space by deleting unused files on the Husky If this is your first time running SurvStar and you wish to install the demo files change to the DATA directory on the Husky Do this by highlighting the and pressing Enter Then highlight DATA and press Enter Transfer files DEMO CL DEMO GRD DEMO PRO DEMO SCT and DEMO TPL to the Husky For a description of what to do with these files see Page 1 11 Overview Page 3 You will also find on the SurvStar diskette a file called TRANSFER EXE This file should be copied to your PC in either the directory where you intend to transfer files or some other directory that is in your path i e C Winnt35 or C batch The SurvStar files are as follows C STAR BAT routine to start SurvStar C SURVSTAR SURVSTAR EXE the main SurvStar program C SURVSTAR SURVHUSK EXE the SurvCOGO program in SurvStar C SURVSTAR VIEW EXE the View Screen program in SurvStar C SURVSTAR GPS INI user settings C SURVSTAR SP83 GPS data tables required for state plane 83 C SURVSTAR SP83 TXT text labels for state plane 83 C SURVSTAR SP27 GPS data tables required for state plane 83 C SURVSTAR SP27 TXT text labels for state plane 83 C SURVSTAR UTM TXT text labels for UTM datum regions C SURVSTAR TITLE TXT opening screen for SurvStar C SURVSTAR LITT CHR a font file C SURVSTAR SURVCOGO HLP SurvCOGO help file C SURVSTAR KEYS HLP SurvStar Hot Keys help file CASURVSTARJUCO
169. ocal Coordinates feature You will first be presented with the values you have selected for pertinent alignment settings At the prompt simply press enter if all settings are as they should be or type N and enter to jump to the Job Options menu where you can modify any incorrect settings Once you exit the Job Options menu you will continue with the Align Local Coordinates process The next screen displays a list of the points used for the alignment To Add a new alignment point type A or F1 To remove a point highlight the point using the up and down arrow keys and then press D or F3 If you have entered a local coordinate or description value that is incorrect you may type E or F3 to edit these values New Feature This will not modify any points you have already stored but you can use the Process GPS Raw File option hotkey RAW under the Point Utilities menu to reprocess the previously stored points with the new alignment Press M or F4 to toggle the bottom menu for more options Use Load L to recall a previously stored alignment file Be very careful to ensure that your current base configuration is exactly as it was when the alignment was stored Because the alignment links local coordinates to GPS coordinates if the latitude and longitude value at your base changes for any reason whatsoever you must also change your alignment file The View option switches between showing the local coordinates and the corre sponding GPS LAT LO
170. ons to be set are as follows 1 Coordinate File The coordinate file is a binary file that contains point number northing easting elevation and descriptions Descriptions can have up to 32 characters One coordinate file Is active at a time and SurvStar routines such as Store Point will automatically use the active Total Station amp Manual Data Collection Page5 1 coordinate file The main menu screen shows the name of the current coordinate file You will be given the option to create a new coordinate file or select from a list of existing coordinate files located in the DATA directory 2 Backup CRD file in Store Points This option will create a backup of the current coordinate file when you enter the Store Points command The backup file name has the same name as the coordi nate file with a bak extension For example the JOB5 CRD file would have a backup name of JOBS BAK 3 Unit mode The unit mode can be set to either metric US feet or international feet 4 Total Station COM Port This is the COM port number for connection from the computer to the total station equipment The default is COM port 1 which is the upper left port on the Husky If you are using a DAP you will most likely use COM 2 which is located on the upper right hand side of the DAP 5 Point Notes Point Notes are additional descriptions that can be stored with a point A regular point consists of a point number northing easting elevation and 32 cha
171. ontinue storing points at this interval value with a different description enter that description now and press enter to begin storing points If you wish to exit this routine and return to the Point Store menu leave the description blank and press Enter or press Esc Data Collection GPS Page 4 23 For time interval point storing press T and Enter at the first prompt Continue the process as described above The time interval you specify will be in seconds After reading and storing the first point SurvStar will wait for the interval time to pass then read and store again For both interval methods if the combined RMS or CEP values of the position read are above the tolerance set in Job Options the point will not be stored Also you may jump to either Monitor or Standard Point Store at any time by pressing F1 or F2 respectively When you exit either Monitor or Standard Point Store you will resume Auto Point Store exactly where you left off Any points that you stored during your Standard Point Store session will not be overwritten Offset Point Entry OP This option can be used in areas of limited satellite communication such as high walls or under a tree This allows you to setup the rover in a clear area and read the coordinate The point that is actually stored is offset from the rover position The offset direction can be entered as left right or azimuth The left and right offset is relative to the rover position at the p
172. option to bull s eye for staking ATLANTA or IMPULSE Data Collection GPS 6 Rod Height 0 000 Needed if Rod Height changes General Options Menu GO State Plane Zone SurvStar reads the LAT LONG from the GPS receiver which is then converted to the state plane zone that is specified here The state plane zone can be in either 27 or 83 Coordinate File The coordinate file is a binary file that contains point number northing easting elevation and descriptions Descriptions can have up to 32 characters One coordinate file is active at a time and SurvStar routines such as Store Point will automatically use the active coordinate file The main menu screen shows the name of the current coordinate file You will be given the option to create a new coordinate file or select from a list of existing coordinate files located in the DATA directory Unit mode The unit mode can be set to either metric US feet or international feet For conversion factors see Appendix D RMS Tolerance The RMS values reported from GPS receivers measure the confidence interval that the point is within or the RMS value If the unit mode is metric then the RMS values are in meters Otherwise the RMS values are in feet When the sum of the horizontal and vertical RMS values is greater than the tolerance SurvStar will give a beep as a warning CEP SEP Tolerance NovAtel GPS receivers report CEP circular error probability and SEP spherical e
173. or the above example is as follows BEARING DISTANCE INTERSECT PT 1 7 Page 6 72 SurvCOGO BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P B QUADRANT 3 must be 1 4 using 360 circle BEARING 74 135 PT 229 DISTANCE FROM PT 2 DISTANCE 330 PT OF INTERSECT PT 3 PT 1 7 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P B or RETURN QUADRANT 1 BEARING 74 135 PT 229 DISTANCE FROM PT 2 DISTANCE 330 PT OF INTERSECT PT 4 Printout 2 line format 7 10342 1200 9768 2500 BD SW 74 DEG 13 MIN 50 SEC 51 49 FEET 3 10328 1281 9718 7028 BD SE 49 DEG 39 MIN 25 SEC 330 00 FEET 9 10114 4988 9970 2232 BD 7 10342 1200 9768 2500 BD NE 74 DEG 13 MIN 50 SEC 316 51 FEET 4 10428 1365 10072 8457 BD SW 18 DEG 07 MIN 05 SEC 330 00 FEET 9 10114 4988 9970 2232 If Bearing Distance is run using the 400 circle configuration no QUADRANT prompt appears and the prompt AZIMUTH is substituted for BEARING In all cases the BASE PT prompt is the transfer question accepting any other menu command for instant transfer If the distance from base point 2 doesn t reach the reference bearing line the program prints NO INTERSECT and returns to the PT 1 prompt The Bearing Distance Intersect can be used to solve key points in cul de sacs and street intersections SurvCOGO Page 6 73 involving curved centerlines Consider the cul de sac shown below in Figure 6 30 The known points are 10
174. ou may find yourself running out of room to log new files Use the File Manager feature from the PC Card Utilities menu to list and delete files and also to check the amount of disk space remaining on your PC Card Ashtech GPS Control Equip Type Ashtech Multipath Medium Dynamics Walking Elevation Mask 5 Solution Reset Full Initialize moms Data Collection GPS Page4 15 6 Satellite Position 7 Fast CPD OFF 8 Record Interval 1 0 9 Site Name 10 Ambiguity Fixing Parameter 4 11 Reset Sensor Memory 12 Send Command to Receiver 13 Station Type ROVER 14 Configure Base Station 15 Save Settings to Receiver 16 Ashtech Type Z12 or Sensor 17 Ashtech Data Port B 18 Ashtech Radio Port A 19 Set Radio Channel Pacific Crest Husky Only Choice Esc Exit Equip Type If the correct equipment type is not displayed here press one Then select from a list of equipment types Multipath This specifies the interference level of the environment Dynamics This specifies the dynamics mode which determine the tolerance to movement and accuracy The modes that allow for more movement have slightly higher solution RMS values While moving with the rover the option should be set to Walking Quasistatic mode can be used when the rover satellite dish in set on a tripod Elevation Mask This sets the satellite elevation mask angle Satellites that are below this angle from the horizon ar
175. ow you to jump directly to any feature in SurvStar without the need for navigating through several layers of menu screens The complete list of hot keys is available at anytime on your data collector by pressing H and enter at either of the prompts mentioned above There is also a complete listing in Appendix I ofthis manual Keep in mind that due to the differences between GPS and Total Station equipment not all features are available for both types of instru ments Also for GPS equipment types you may hot key items from the setup menu by typing SU plus the item number For example SU2 for setup item 2 Getting Started Page2 3 Chapter 3 General Features Calculator C 1 Numerical Expression 2 Lat Long to State Plane 83 3 State Plane 83 to Lat Long Choice ESC Exit Numerical Expression This option calculates the results of a user entered expression For example to convert an instrument height from feet to meters Enter expression 6 25 3 28 Result 1 90549 Lat Long to State Plane 83 This method converts latitude longitude coordinates into state plane 83 northing easting coordinates The latitude and longitude are entered in degrees minutes and seconds in the format of dd mmss Decimal seconds can be included as dd mmssss The state plane zone to use is defined under the Job Options menu State Plane 83 to Lat Long This method converts state plane 83 northing easting coordinates into latitude longitude coord
176. pt you would enter MH because this is the field name for manhole number in your GIS file Then at the next prompt you would enter 5346 because you are only concerned now with manhole 5346 The screen display will look like this PT 46 N 5000 00 E 5000 00 Elv 100 00 Location gt 704 Houser Street Manhole Number gt 5346 Manhole Depth Feet gt 24 678 ESC PgDn PgUp Nxt Prv Use the arrow keys to highlight the field you wish to modify Fields which are defined by equations can be highlighted but can not be modified by the user The program will calculate and update these fields automatically Use the PgUp and PgDn F1 and F2 feature to scroll through all the GIS and Note data for this point If your query brought up more than one point use the Nxt and Prv F3 and F4 features to go forward or backward through the list of points To exit this function use the ESC key or scroll to the end of the point list and press Nxt Once you exit all changes to GIS and Point Notes will be saved For more information on recording GIS data see chapter 4 Process GPS Raw File RAW When collecting GPS position data SurvStar also creates a GPS raw file This file is stored in the Data directory of your data collector The name of the file will be the same as the name of your coordinate file but with a raw extension All points stored by reading from the GPS will be stored in this file Points entered through option
177. ption chooses between using true north geodetic or state plane north grid To use real world ground distances set the Project Scale Factor Otherwise the default scale factor of 1 0 will collect points on state plane distances Scenario One known state plane coordinate and you want to work in the state plane Data Collection GPS Page 4 11 coordinate system Alignment Do a one point alignment on this known state plane point Set the One Point Align Azimuth to Grid and set the scale factor to 1 0 Scenario Multiple known control points Alignment Choose two or more control points to align to It is best to use control points around the perimeter of the site Use as many control points as are available or enough to envelope the site Set the Transformation to Plane Similarity to fit the GPS points onto the control points Set the Project Scale Factor to 1 0 After making the alignment stake out another control point ideally one the is not used in the alignment to make sure the align ment is good setup SU This screen controls several ofthe GPS receiver settings A more detailed explanation of these settings can be found in the GPS receiver documentation The options that are available in this menu depend on the type of GPS receiver NovAtel GPS Control Equip Type NovAtel Satellite Position Elevation Cutoff 10 0 Configure Base Station If Base is the Station Type Select Base Station ID If Rover is the Station
178. r Disconnect Radio from Power Press Enter when Ready Disconnect the limo cable that supplies power to the radio and press enter When you see the Connect Now message reconnect the power to the radio SurvStar will attempt communication with the radio for approximately ten seconds Ifthere is no communication established in this time you will see the message Timed Out Press enter to return to the SetUp menu If communication is successfully made SurvStar will read the current radio channel from the radio and print it to the screen SurvStar will also prompt you for the new channel to set Enter a valid channel number and press enter If the channel change is successful the program will ask you Save new channel to memory lt Y gt N If you say no the current channel will only last until the next time the radio looses power After this the radio will revert to the previously programmed channel It is recommended that you answer yes to this prompt If the channel change is unsuccess ful the program will let you know This program will only reset the channel for the radio you are currently connected to It will be necessary to go to any other bases or rovers you are currently using and run steps 3 through 9 again C Sample Code File Each Entry line of a Code File should have the following format Code Full Name Symbol Symbol Size Layer Entity Type Tie Linetype Text Size Line Width Processing On Neares
179. r 5 Resulting Printout TRV SE 892202 251 72 TO POINT 5 5323 7279 5837 5997 ANGLE CODE lt 9 gt 8 ANGLE BEARING lt 10 gt 15 27 DISTANCE 82 15 POINT NUMBER lt 6 gt 10 Resulting Printout TRV NE 75 10 58 82 15 TO POINT 10 5344 7367 5917 0179 ANGLE CODE lt 8 gt 5 ANGLE BEARING lt 15 27 gt 315 45 DISTANCE 200 POINT NUMBER lt 11 gt Enter SurvCOGO Page 6 13 Resulting Printout TRV NW 44 15 00 200 00 TO POINT 11 5487 9970 5777 4598 ANGLE CODE lt 5 gt I Again instant transfer here to Inverse INVERSE POINT 4 We move to point 4 from point 11 The backsight to 11 is held POINT T Again the command driven program transfers to Traverse TRAVERSE ROUTINE ANGLE CODE lt I gt 6 ANGLE BEARING lt 315 45 gt 180 DISTANCE 200 POINT NUMBER lt 12 gt 12 Resulting Printout TRV SW 49 52 09 200 00 TO POINT 12 5197 6007 5432 9802 The traverse conducted above would plot as shown in Figure 6 3 Though Inverse is covered in a later section it simply means go to When you traverse or inverse from one point to another the backsight is automatically held so that you can turn horizontal angles left and right or deflection angles left and right from the backsight As an example when traversing from 2 to 3 the program moves to3 and backsights 2 Ifan angle to the rightis then turned the program calculates the resulting bearing by adding the angle right to the backsight a
180. racter description These points are stored in a CRD file Coordinate file notes are a way to add an unlimited number of lines of text to a point number With Point Notes ON in the Store Point command the program will prompt for point notes after collecting a point The notes are stored in a file that uses the name of the coordinate file with a NOT extension For example a coordinate file called JOB5 CRD would have a note file called JOB5 NOT 6 Beep for Store Point This option will make a double beep to indicate when a point is stored in the coordinate file 7 New CRD File Format Point numbers can have either numeric or alphanumeric format This option determines the point number format for when a new coordinate file is created Alphanumeric point numbers consist of nine or less digits and letters 1 e point number 7A With numeric point numbers the point is stored in the coordinate file at a fixed position set by the point number This means that the size of the coordinate file is determined by the highest point number For example point number 500 will be stored in position 500 and if point 500 is the only point in the file the file size will still be 500 points long and positions 1 499 will be unused Each point takes 56 bytes to store So 1f there are 300 000 bytes free on the computer you can have a coordinate file with over 5000 points The amount of free bytes on the computer is shown in the main menu Besides allow ing point numbe
181. red for config item 8 such as 99867 All distance entries in traverse or sideshot mode willthen be multiplied by this factor Be sure the factor is 1 fornormal traverse and COGO work One unexpected application is for entry of deed calls in poles 16 5 feet or chains 66 feet Place 16 5 in config item 8 by going to menu item CF Then deeds can be entered directly in poles Links can be converted to poles by multiplying by 4 and then entering them as the decimal place For example 17 poles 11 links can be entered as 17 44 poles SurvCOGO Page 6 19 8 9 Lines can be extended by entering point numbers in the form 8 12 which would create points 8 9 10 11 and 12 using the same bearing and distance entered from the occupied point to point 8 For example if you are on point 5 and traverse NE 15 deg 100 feet to point 7 answer the prompt POINT NUMBER with 7 10 to traverse another 100 feet to 8 another 100 feet to 9 and another 100 feet to 10 You will then be occupying 10 and backsighting 5 The effect of this entry is shown in Figure 6 6 LINE EXTENSION PT DEFINED BEARINGS TRAVERSE TO PT 5 INVEASE TO PT 7 Then enter Then enter ANGLE CODE i ANGLE CODE 5x7 90 ANGLE BEARING 15 DISTANCE 100 DISTANCE 100 POINT NUMBER 33 POINT NUMBER 7 10 100 00 100 00 ry 100 00 FIGURE 6 6 Though configuration items 21 and 24 can set angle code prompting and bearing or azimuth printout these can be changed by direct entry
182. red with SurvCOGO Page 6 9 any of the math operators X where X stands for multiplication The form would be 47 65 X4 or 1292 875 3 The traverse operation allows for automatic point numbering Points along a line at even distance can be created with one traverse operation In 3 D files and when requested with 2 D files zenith vertical angle prompting is provided Modes can be setto activate target height and instrument height prompting as well as prompting for the vertical difference ofthe field shot Elevations can be carried from setup to setup A traverse from point 1 to point 2 causes the program to in effect move to point 2 holding the call from 1 to 2 as a backsight for sideshots or the next traverse leg As with Enter amp Assign the program will prompt for a description if Text mode is on see the part below on additional Traverse coding options Procedure Press T for Traverse The program will first prompt for ANGLE BEARING CODE The coding system now almost a convention with COGO programs is shown below TRAVERSE CODES BEARING CODES ANGLE RIGHT AND LEFT DEFLECTIONS N FORESIGHT Nu 4 NE 1 NA 5 E SU 3 gE 2 BACKSIGHT S NORTH RZIHUTH S FIGURE 6 2 There are four basic prompts within the Traverse routine ANGLE BEARING CODE ie 1 through 9 as shown above Page 6 10 SurvCOGO ANGLE BEARING entered in DD MMSS or in decimal format for grads DISTANCE POINTNUMBER pr
183. revious read Nextthe offset distance is entered followed by the elevation difference between the rover position and the offset point Average Point AVG With this method the program reads the position several times and stores the average First enter a point number Then set up the rover over the desired point and press Enter to begin reading the GPS receiver Remain at the same point while the program continuously reads the GPS receiver As each point is read the coordinates are displayed To stop collecting data type X or press Enter Then the number of samples and average coordinates are displayed along with the minimum maximum and standard deviation This averaged coordinate can then be stored Enter amp Edit Coords EC This method allows you to type in the northing easting and elevation Once you have entered these values you can toggle the highlighted number from positive to negative by pressing the key Shift K on the HUSKY FCT on the DAP 9500 Point numbers cannot be negative You may also use this function to edit the coordinates and or description of any previously stored point To edit the Notes or GIS data of previously stored points go to Point Utilities Edit GIS Notes Monitor GPS MP This method displays the Monitor GPS screen which shows the current coordi nates RMS values number of satellites and DOP values When these values are good 1 e the RMS values are solved press Enter to store the point
184. rompt and the 400 circle azimuth is entered to the prompt BEARING The BASELINE PT prompt is the transfer question within Point Offsets Both the R O W Offset and Point Offset routines have counterparts in right column menu items in the main COGO menu For example the Stationing Routine allows the user to enter an entire centerline including curves and calculate offsets left and right at any station and interval Centerlines can also be point to point line segments Menu item CC Compute Sections from COGO points requires line definition and captures all points within a specified offset of the line printing out the displacement from the defined line The user should be aware of these routines when making menu decisions Coordinate Transformation CT Application This program is useful when converting from an assumed bearing to a true bearing The program will also allow for transforming a set of coordinates onto another coordinate system This is useful in converting field coordinates into state plane coordinates Features The program has two options B or P The bearing option B allows the user to rotate the points onto anew bearing by specifying two known points and the desired bearing between them The first point acts like the pivot point and its coordinate values do not change Figure 6 34 below shows such a rotation If the 4 point traverse was conducted based on assuming 1 to 2 due north anda sun shot later reveals a b
185. rror probability values CEP is a function ofthe standard deviation ofthe latitude and the standard deviation of the latitude SEP is a function of the standard deviations of the latitude longitude and elevation Look for CEP and SEP values similar to those for HRMS and VRMS of previous versions Consider any mention of RMS in this manual to pertain to CEP if you are a NovAtel user Store Fixed Only This provides a secondary check to the RMS and CEP SEP Tolerance setting Even if the position calculation is within RMS tolerance it may still be a float solution Turning this setting on will cause SurvStar to reject any non fixed solutions GPS COM Port This is the COM port number for connection from the computer to the GPS receiver The default is port 1 which is the upper left port on the Husky On the MircoFlex DAP this COM port should be set to port 2 Inverse Display This setting applies to the way results will be displayed in the inverse function of the Point Utilities menu Possible values are Bearing North Azimuth and South Azimuth Data Collection GPS Page 4 3 Inverse Scale Factor This value will be applied to inverse distances in the Inverse function This is useful for storing coordinates on the grid and inversing distances on the ground Elevation Type NovAtel only The possible values for this feature are Ellipsoid Spheroid and MSL Mean Sea Level All elevations Monitor GPS Store Point Setup Base Sta
186. rs with letters alphanumeric points also store efficiently without fixed positions and can handle high point numbers such as 501101 The disadvantage to alphanumeric points is that SurvCOGO is designed for numeric points and only a few essential SurvCOGO routines are avail able for alphanumeric points Page 5 2 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection 8 Store GIS Data with Points When storing a point this option will prompt for and store additional descriptions for user defined fields in the note field for the point The fields to store are defined in a GIS file which contains a field definition on each line The definition line has the field name prompt and default value separated by commas If the field is a choice of options the definition line also has each choice separated by commas If the field s value is to be calculated automatically by an equation the equation takes the place ofthe default value The field s value is calculated automatically once the point is stored or edited For example consider the following GIS file to store information for manholes LOC Location MH Manhole Number MH Depth Ft Manhole Depth Feet MEAS Down Measure Down SEQN ELV MH Depth Ft SIZE Ring Size 24 MATERIAL Ring Material INVERT MH Invert Excellent Good Fair Poor Bad Excellent Good Fair Poor Bad LEAKS Manhole Leaks Yes No No Yes No GPM Approximate GPM BY Reviewed By The first line defines a field calle
187. run on one computer Before going out into the field you must register your copy by starting SurvStar A registration message will appear similar to the one below Registration Error 7 SurvStar is not licensed to run on this computer 1 Register Software 2 Run in Demo Mode Selection lt 2 gt Enter your selection at the prompt and follow the instructions given If you are registering your software the program asks for a change key To receive the change key call Carlson Software at 617 254 5429 or fax at 617 254 8374 If you continue to run in demo mode you will be limited to 100 points and will not be able to utilize the Roadwork features Once this is done the Main Menu will appear Getting Started Page 2 1 SurvStar Menu GPS SurvStar Carlson Software DISK 797492 CRD TOPO CRD Align Local Crds Calculator Elev Difference File Transfer GPS Monitor Store Point Job Options RoadWork Must be registered separately Stakeout SC SurvCOGO SU SetUp GPS U Point Utilities X Exit Program Choose action ozovuzmmo SurvStar uses a menu based system starting from this main menu The current coordinate file CRD file is shown at the top of the screen The DISK value is the amount of free space in bytes remaining for storing job data Because the functionality of total stations and GPS equipment is so different there are some features that are available only for one and not for
188. s prompt will store a file with the current latitude longitude and height These base station files are stored with a ref extension and can be used whenever you wish to set a base station over this same point Save Settings to Receiver Saves the current configuration to receiver memory Saved values can be overridden by choosing Reset Sensor Memory Ashtech Type Select either Z12 or Sensor Z Surveyor GG24 or Z Surveyor FX Use the Z Surveyor FX Ashtech type for any Z Family receiver with firmware release UBO0 or later Use the Z Surveyor Ashtech type for previous firmware releases Data Collection GPS Page4 17 Ashtech Data Port This is the port on the Ashtech where the data collector is connected Ashtech Radio Port This is the port on the Ashtech where the radio is connected Set Radio Channel Pacific Crest This feature is available on Husky data collectors only and the file radio exe must be present in the SurvStar directory To run this feature connect the Pacific Crest radio to the Husky you must be able to power the radio and connect it to the Husky at the same time Enter the Com Port ofthe Husky that you are using Disconnect the power from the radio and press enter Reconnect the power and wait for SurvStar to establish connection with the radio You will see your current channel setting on the screen Enter the channel you wish to set and press enter It is recommended that you answer Ye
189. s to the prompt Program Radio lt Y gt N Leica GPS Control 1 Equip Type Leica 2 Leica Type MC1000 or 500 Series 3 Satellite View 4 Send Command to Receiver 5 Station Type Rover or Base For the 500 Series only 6 Mode Leica Prop For the 500 Series only Choice Esc Exit Equip Type If the correct equipment type is not displayed here press one Then select from a list of equipment types Leica Type Currently SurvStar works with the Leica MC1000 and the Leica 500 Series receivers Satellite View Use this feature to view the position of satellites in the sky Press F1 once in the Satellite View screen to toggle the view Possible views are Satellite Geometry Only Satellite Geom etry with PRN value and Text Mode While in Text Mode stars are used to denoted which satellites are actually used in the posiotion calculation You may also jump to this same satellite view screen from the Monitor GPS window Send Command to Receiver This routine allows you to send a command to the GPS receiver If you need to set or read a feature on the GPS receiver that is not in the SurvStar Setup command then you can use this routine to send the command Any response from the receiver will be displayed Please refer to the GPS receiver documentation for descriptions of these additional receiver com Page 4 18 Data Collection GPS mands Station Type This value will be either ROVER or BASE If you do not
190. self For an azimuth based traverse the starting point may be the setup itself Ifa beep is heard when a point number is entered that indicates that point protect is active and the point number entered already has coordinates If Enter is pressed the next available point in increasing order will be used Point protect is automatically on when the program is started Itis cancelled using File Adjustment item 6 Additional Traverse Coding Options 1 Pressing Enter to the ANGLE CODE prompt will default to the previous entry once inside the Traverse routine After pressing T for Traverse you must enter a valid code when asked After that first entry Enter will default to the previous entry 2 Pressing LorR to the ANGLE CODE prompt will traverse 90 degrees to the left or right heading forward 100 degrees left orright with 400 circle No ANGLE BEARING prompt will appear This offers a quick way to traverse around a building or any figure with many right angle corners 3 Point defined bearings can be entered at the ANGLE CODE prompt by entering two point numbers separated by a decimal place Referring to Figure 6 3 if an entry of 10 5 was made at the prompt ANGLE CODE the program would use the bearing defined by 10 to 5 or S 75 deg 10 min 58 sec W The user need not occupy any ofthe bearing defining points One application for point defined bearings is shown in Figure 6 5 Given a choice use points that are the furthest apar
191. ses Fora horizontal shot of 1000 feet the displacement is 02 For a horizontal shot of 3000 feet the displacement is 19 If configured for metric distances the displacement would increase by approximately a 3 28 factor the number of feet per meter With config item 29 set to 1 the effect of earth curvature is applied to the carrying of elevations Enter amp Assign E Application Enter amp Assign is the most basic COGO routine Itis used for entering point numbers with north and east coordinates Elevations are always prompted press Enter to skip but text is optional depending on whether text on TON or text off TOFF is set Point numbers from 1 to 32 000 can be entered When entering point numbers in sequence Return can be pressed for default point numbering Coordinates are stored to 17 significant figures When a point number is entered the program moves to it Thus if point 1 is entered with coordinates N 5000 and E 5000 the program will traverse sideshot or inverse from coordinate 5000 5000 if those routines are entered next Procedure Enter E Prompting is as follows Page 6 8 SurvCOGO ENTER amp ASSIGN E POINT NUMBER lt 1 gt 1 or Enter the default response is always within the lt gt brackets INPUT NORTH 5000 EASTING 5000 ELEVATION 1291 23 DESCRIPTION 1 IRON PIN iftext mode is on POINT NUMBER lt 2 gt 2 or Enter INPUT NORTH 5127 23 EASTING 4981 35 ELEVATION
192. simply gets on the setups either by inverse or traverse the backsight being irrelevant In either case the sideshots are entered one after another with no re entry of the setup backsight or the SS code itself Consider the angle right example shown as Figure 6 7 Table 6 5 1 IBME COMPUTER HPLJ PRINTER 3 C DATADRIVE 4 SDATA DATASUBDIRECTORY 5 C PROGRAMDRIVE 6 PROGRAMSUBDIRECTORY 7 C lt C gt ARLSON 8 1 GRID SCALE SEA T VEL FACTOR 9 SN TAB FOR PT IINE SHIP FOR PT IE 6 Y 10 34 TAB FOR NORTHING UNITS 1 46 TAB FOR HASTING UNITS 50 TAB FOR ELEVATION UNITS 13 11 TAB FOR DEARING QUADRANT 14 TAB FOR DEGREE UNITS 24 TAB FOR DASH IF ANY 25 TAB FOR DISTANCE 17 N EXTRA PRECISION PRINTOUTS Y OR N 18 N DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IE DEG MIN SEC Y OR N 19 1 9600 PLOTTER PORT BAUD RATE 20 FV FEET METES VERTICAL ZENITH We willenterthe field notes forthe above example using vertical angles and text mode Transits and certain European instruments use the vertical angle where 0 degrees is horizontal and 358 degrees for example is downhill 2 degrees being uphill The printouts that follow were obtained by the configuration shown in Table 6 5 designed for a PC Entries beginning at main COGO menu TEXT to set Text mode E SurvCOGO Page 6 23 ENTER amp ASSIGN POINTNUMBER 7 INPUTNORTHING 10342 12 EASTING 9768 25 DESCRIPTION HUB 1 Printout E amp A 7 10342 1200 9768 2500 HUB 1 POINT NU
193. splays the RMS on the screen during stake out The Trail option is used to draw a trail of where you have been while approaching the target Elevation Difference E This command reports the elevation difference between a point and a surface model A negative elevation difference represents cut and a positive elevation difference is fill The surface model can be defined by a grid file triangulation file or template design files The point can be the rover GPS position entered coordinates or a point number from the current coordinate file SurvStar calculates the elevation at that position on the surface model and compares this surface model elevation with the point to report the elevation difference There is an option to store the point to the coordinate file with the elevation difference as the point description A vertical offset can also be entered to be added to the surface model The grid file is a rectangular mesh with elevations at each corner as shown below The grid file has a grd extension and can be created in SurvCadd The triangulation file represents a triangulation mesh as shown below This file has an flt extension and can be created in SurvCadd or Softdesk The maximum number of points in the triangulation file is 500 less if the coordinates are state plane The template design files include the centerline alignment cl file vertical profile pro file and x Offset Point Catch Point Pivot Point Example
194. t Found Description Distinct Pt Layer Separate Layers Smooth Hard Color Precision Real Z Each value is separated by a comma and any value except Code may be left blank Below is a short example of a code file This is a field code definition file All comments must begin with a Delete and add them as you wish Code Full Name Symbol Symbol Size Layer Entity Type Tie Linetype Text Size Line Width Processing On Nearest Found Description Distinct Pt Layer Separate Layers Smooth Hard Color Precision Real Z DMH spt12 0 080000 UTIL 0 1 CONTINUOUS 0 080000 0 000000 1 0 Drain Man hole 0 0 0 0 256 2 1 EMH spt6 0 080000 UTIL 0 1 CONTINUOUS 0 080000 0 000000 1 0 Electric Man hole 0 0 0 0 256 2 1 FH spt18 0 080000 UTIL 0 1 CONTINUOUS 0 080000 0 000000 1 0 Fire Hy drant 0 0 0 0 256 2 1 MH spt5 0 080000 UTIL 0 1 CONTINUOUS 0 080000 0 000000 1 0 Manhole 0 0 0 0 256 2 1 SMH spt11 0 080000 UTIL 0 1 CONTINUOUS 0 080000 0 000000 1 0 Sewer Man hole 0 0 0 0 256 2 1 UP spt19 0 080000 UTIL 0 1 CONTINUOUS 0 080000 0 000000 1 0 Utility Pole 0 0 0 0 256 2 1 D Constants and Conversion Factors The following constants and conversion factors are used in the SurvStar program Constants For State Plane Zones Ellipsoid World Geodetic System 1984 WGS84 Major Axis 6378137 0 m Flattening 0 00335281066475 For UTM Zones Ellipsoid was determined by Datum chosen For major axis
195. t when defining a direction You may sacrifice accuracy when using points that are say 0 001 feet apart Page 6 18 SurvCOGO 4 5 a 6 7 PT sUEPINBD DIRECTION TRAVERSE TO PT 19 Then enter ANGLE CODE 18 25 DISTANCE 195 OR 1832 POINT NUMBER 31 FIGURE 6 5 Arithmetic operators and can be used with bearing entries in either azimuth mode or as a supplement to point defined entries Thus the user can enter a bearing of 175 23 90 in azimuth mode Alternately a bearing of 10 5 90 can be entered which would add 90 degrees to the azimuth defined by 10 to 5 The added bearing can include minutes and seconds as in 10 5 30 4507 Point defined distances can be entered using the two points separated by a Thus if the distance from point 61 to 68 is 1031 37 and you wish to traverse that same distance at the prompt DISTANCE enter 61 58 Distance entries can include the arithmetic operators 7 X and If you wish to divide 2041 75 in four parts you can traverse a distance of 2041 75 4 This is particularly useful in section division world mid western and western states Do not use more than one operator per line The entry 59 47X3 is valid The entry 99 71 21 5 is not valid Use configuration item 8 to multiply distances by any factor Ifan areais say 5000 feet above sea level and it is desired to keep traverse work close to state plane coordinates a scale factor can be ente
196. ta Collection GPS Essential to configure Causes beep if RMS exceeds this range If GPS type is NovAtel New Feature If GPS type is NovAtel For Microflex only Applies to Multi point alignment Page 4 1 3 Point Store Options Menu Menu Page 1 Backup Crd File in Store Pts OFF Beep for Store Point OFF New CRD File Format Numeric Point Notes OFF Point Data in Notes OFF RMS in Point Notes OFF CEP SEP in Point Notes OFF Rod Ht in Point Notes OFF Choice Esc Exit Enter More p O9 RON l Menu Page 2 8 Time Date in Point Notes OFF 9 Store GIS Data with Points OFF 10 GIS File NONE 11 Prompt Rod Height No 12 Code File NONE 13 Trigger External Device 14 External Device Port COM2 Choice Esc Exit Enter More 4 Stakeout Options Menu 1 Display RMS in Stakeout OFF 1 Display CEP in Stakeout OFF tel 2 Draw Trail in Stakeout OFF 3 Separate Stakeout CRD File No 4 Stakeout Report No 5 Stakeout Tolerance 10 000 6 Num Readings for Average 10 Choice Esc Exit 5 Laser Gun Options Menu 1 Type ATLANTA 2 Laser Alignment Azimuth 0 00 3 Laser COM Port COM2 Choice Esc Exit Page 4 2 Will Slow Down Operation If ON will beep with every point SurvCOGO uses only numeric Will use substantial disk space Uses substantial disk space If GPS type is NovA User defined GIS data storage For Use with Earth Radar If GPS type is NovA Nice
197. tareseatsene 4 35 Profile View NV add a aia 4 38 Profile Input Edit PE ii iotissietaassesst 4 38 Template Design TD ciccisiisssccscsscicssceczissscnssessecscssasstvereessssovestoase 4 39 Template View TV ssl rate ares dite 4 40 Template Edit TE issues 4 40 Template Insert TTI ssessoessssecoesoosessocesssoccseooesssscesesoossesoesessosee 4 41 Chapter 5 Total Station Data Collection 5 1 Setup SU oasis has eher acea ono ete uade ERE eUV TRI UEM eui ev isese edes 5 1 ANS s rEO m 5 1 quipm nt SOCUY o 5 4 NIKON M 5 5 GEOQ Ie CEE inde nn anse 5 5 MO UCONN Met 5 6 LISS pendantes etes dede 5 7 Leica TC AVVO Sur ntm antenne 5 8 Point Store with Equipment or Manual Entry 5 8 Function K YSssssn snesssetisanenetnteenmennneteniennsevsdtanetensette 5 9 Taking A Shot ssssicsssessisicsscssesissssssssosssesassssasssesao cossi so ssoei isisao istas 5 10 bic E E E O E E 5 11 Boinft sn ann NS anata gne EIE IIR eode soodsa ade cue ua 5 11 Backsight CHECK trames 5 12 Offset D 5 12 Closed HOriZON 4 rires beoe eei enata ra he eot oe eba Cl ve POR ANS etes ee a 5 13 Stakequt S aaepe tm s 5 13 Elevation Difference E eoe rene aepo eoa nene rag Eo eh mo Rh ego nra eee eoe pn Ya Ke 5 14 Roadwork R sise ct ees t pa o eo eea kh epa SS UESR Ia rera SURE E FUEL EEG 5 15 Centerline POSITION rn 5 15 Slope Staking nana en dnoeadrtee
198. tation will output information to the radio port Possible values are 1 second or 2 seconds Data Collection GPS Page 4 13 Send Command to Receiver This routine allows you to send a command to the GPS receiver If you need to set or read a feature on the GPS receiver that is not in the SurvStar Setup command then you can use this routine to send the command Any response from the receiver will be displayed Please refer to the GPS receiver documentation for descriptions of these additional receiver com mands Receiver Reset Full Initialize This command sends the FRESET command to the NovAtel receiver This command is the equivalent of a hard reset turning off and turning on the receiver It may take the NovAtel a few minutes to find all satellites again and solve for ambiguities Solution Reset soft Reboot This command sends the CRESET command to the NovAtel receiver This will cause the receiver to resolve its position It may take the NovAtel a few minutes to fix again Dynamics Possible values here are Kinematic and Static Static should only be used if your unit is on a tripod or some other non moving mounting surface Reading the NovAtel in static mode will take a second or two longer than reading in kinematic mode Any movement of the GPS antenna while in static mode could cause the CEP values to rise suddenly and the position data to vary Kinematic mode is the default and it is suggested that you use this mode for all rea
199. te the intersect oftwo lines It will also Page 6 66 SurvCOGO allow the user to define a parallel offset line from the base line and to calculate its intersect with another line or offset line Procedure Press BB The routine requests base points for 2 lines which unless parallel will intersect at only one point Consider the example of Figure 6 25 1st Point 2nd Point FIGURE 6 25 The sequence of inputting is given below BEARING BEARINGINTERSECT INPUT BASE PT 1 1 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P P BEARING DEFINING PT FOR LINE 1 23 Alternate QUADRANT 1 BEARING 46 27 INPUT BASE PT 2 22 BEARING OR PT DEFINED DIRECTION lt B gt OR P P BEARING DEFINING PT FOR LINE 2 24 Alternate QUADRANT 4 BEARING 40 2513 Note that a line can be defined by a point and a bearing or simply by two points Once the intersection is computed the program requests the intersection point and prints the calls from base point 1 SurvCOGO Page 6 67 to intersect point to base point Z2 An example ofthe printout is shown next E amp A 1 9900 0000 9900 0000 E amp A 2 9906 0000 10300 0000 TRAV 4 NW 40 DEG 25 MIN 13 SEC 400 00 FEET 10210 5236 10040 6442 INV 1 SW 24 DEG 22 MIN 01 SEC 340 89 FEET 9900 0000 9900 0000 TRAV 3 NE 46 DEG 27 MIN 00 SEC 350 00 FEET 10141 1456 10153 6707 Note The entries above set up the data for the example BB 1 9900 0000 9900 0000 BB 5 NE 46 DEG 27 MIN 00 SEC 308
200. template with slope stake Page 4 28 Data Collection GPS template file tpl file Superelevation sup file and template transition tpt file can optionally be applied Using the rover coordinate SurvStar calculates the station and offset for the coordinate Then the road design is calculated at that station and the template elevation is computed for the offset The road design files can be created in SurvCadd or with SurvStar under the Roadwork menu Roadwork R Go to the Roadwork menu for any ofthe following options Slope Staking Cutsheet Stakeout Centerline Position Centerline Design Centerline View Profile Design Profile View Profile Edit Template Design 10 Template View 11 Template Edit 12 Template Insert Slope Staking SL NO Un BW N gt Slope Staking is located in the Roadwork menu This command guides you to the catch point where the cut fill slope intersects the existing ground Coordinates from the GPS receiver are used to model the existing ground There are three methods for defining the cut fill slopes Design Files Section File User Entry Design files include a centerline file cl profile file pro and template file tpl The centerline defines the horizontal alignment the profile defines the vertical alignment and the template defines the cross slopes and cut fill slopes Superelevation sup and template transitions tpt files can also be used Using the design files any sta
201. ters without extension where the GIS format is stored 2 Automatic by Point Description When entering GIS information SurvStar will look for a file having a gis extension and filename matching the first eight characters of the current point description For example if a point s description is MH the file MH GIS will be used for that point Prompt Rod Height This option will bring up a prompt to enter the rod height before storing points Otherwise the current rod height will be used automatically The current rod height can be set in the Options command item 6 or in the Store Point menu P from the main menu followed by choice 14 Code File Code files are tagged with an fld extension and stored in the DATA directory They contain a series of predefined point descriptions in the form of abbreviations followed by explana tions Code files can be created using SurvCadd s Field to Finish module See Appendix C for a sample code file Trigger External Device If you will be using an external device such as earth radar eg sounding devices for marine applications that requires a trigger from the serial port turn this feature on The device will only be triggered during the Auto Points at Interval by Time Point Store function Do Not use this feature for lasers See Laser Gun Options on the following page External Device Port This is the COM port of your data collector from which the trigger for the external dev
202. the HIV method Pressing M and returning to the menu cancels the HIV method As with the HI method the setup elevation must be known Elevations are transferred forward whether in sideshot or traverse mode The program prompts for instrument height target height and vertical difference After the first sideshot the instrument height is known and will not be re prompted until the user moves to the next setup If RETURN is pressed for Page 6 36 SurvCOGO instrument heights and target heights the previous respective entries will be recalled Again you would first press HIV and then get on the setup inversing or traversing the backsight if angles off of the backsight are to be turned A typical entry for the above example whether in traverse or sideshot might appear as follows ANGLE BEARING CODE 5 ANGLE BEARING 171 4405 DISTANCE 295 41 HGT OF INSTR 1 45 HGT OF TARGET 1 31 VERT DIF 2 73 POINT NUMBER 50 This might represent a metric system entry Instrument heights and target heights are entered in the units of measurement whether feet or meters The HIV method can also be used like method to transfer elevations forward from the backsight Consider the example shown in Figure 6 12 READ 17 15 TRAVERSE BS FIRST SETUP 1 RH Figure 6 12 Though you set up on point 18 and read a 17 15 vertical difference to point 17 you can choose to enter amp assign or inverse to 17 and then traverse to 18
203. the number of your first occupied point At the next prompt enter the point number desired and the program prints the bearing and distance to the new point from the point you had just occupied Printouts will be in the form specified in the Inverse Type setting under the General Options screen see Chapters 4 and 5 Also an inverse scale factor can be applied to convert GPS collected grid Page 3 4 General Functions distances to ground distances See the section on General Options in Chapter 4 for more information on inverse settings 2 10100 10400 1 10000 10000 3 9900 10450 FIGURE 3 1 In the example above we want to compute the bearings from to 2 and from to 3 Using the Inverse Routine we begin by pressing I We are prompted Point Number 1 Pt 10000 0000 10000 0000 100 0 Point Number 2 Pt 10100 0000 10400 0000 101 5 N 75 DEG 57 MIN 50 SEC E H Dist 412 31 Point Number 1 Pt 10000 0000 10000 0000 100 0 S 75 DEG 57 MIN 50 SEC W H Dist 412 31 PointNumber 3 Pt 9900 0000 10450 0000 S 77 DEG 28 MIN 16 SEC E H Dist 460 98 General Functions Page 3 5 Read Text File RT Application For reading in ASCII files of coordinates to SurvStar from third party software Procedure Select menu option RT or 4 Assume you have an ASCII file that looks like the following JONES DAT Project 74 5 May 22 1997 1 5000 5000 988 7 2 4781 5 9128 23 1023 45 Prompting is answered as fo
204. the other If you are missing certain functions in your main menu such as Align Local Crds go to the Setup menu and check that you are set to the correct equipment type SurvStar Menu Total Stations SurvStar Carlson Software DEMO CRD DISK 1161728 C Calculator O Job Options E Elev Difference SU SetUp F File Transfer SC SurvCOGO R Road Work S Stakeout U Point Utilities X Exit program P Store Point Choose action The number in the DISK field is the amount in bytes of free space available on your computer for Page 2 2 Getting Started storing data The word in the top right corner is the name of the current coordinate file This is the file that will store all points collected in this session To change the current coordinate file use the General Options menu Select an item from the Main Menu by typing the letter s to the left of the item you want and pressing enter If you do not see the Roadwork option in your main menu screen then the Roadworking Module has not yet been registered to run on your data collector To register Roadwork on your machine type R and enter at the Choose action prompt You will see an error registration message similar to the one on page 2 1 Follow the instructions from the SurvStar Registration section to register your Roadworking Module If you are using GPS equipment set the correct grid system state plane or UTM Don t just start working because you will be
205. tion etc will be entered and recorded based on the elevation type specified here Font Size Microflex only This can be set to either Small or Large Small is font size 0 and Large is fontsize 2 When you toggle this setting you should notice your font size change instantly on the screen Ifthe font does not chang properly exit SurvStar and set the font from DOS using the Microflex Setup program Then return to SurvStar and make sure the setting of this feature matches the actual font that 1s being used by your system Alignment Options Menu AO Transformation The transformation in the Align Local Coordinates command can either be by plane similarity or rigid body methods Both methods use a best fit least squares transformation The difference is that the rigid body method does a transformation with a translation and rotation and without a scale The plane similarity does a rotation translation and scale This option only applies when two or more points are used in Align Local Coordinates One Pt Align Azimuth This option applies to the rotation when using one point in Align Local Coordinates For this alignment method the state plane coordinate is translated to the local coordi nate Then the rotation can use either the state plane grid or the geodetic as north No scale is applied In this transformation The state plane and geodetic true north diverge slightly in the east and west edges of the state plane zone This opt
206. tion along the centerline can be slope staked The road design files can be created in SurvCadd and uploaded onto the data collector The template centerline and profile files can also be made in SurvStar under the Roadwork menu Section files sct can be used instead of design files when the road is too complicated to model using design files For example if the road contains special ditches at various offsets and varying lane Data Collection GPS Page 4 29 widths then it may be easier to enter a final section file than to define the template and template transitions A section file consists of offset elevation points at different stations At a minimum each station should contain the pivot point offset elevations The slope staking routine will start the cut fill slope from the furthest offset point in the section For example when staking the right side the right most offset will be used as the pivot point The section file can optionally contain additional offsets such as centerline and edge of pavement The program can then report the horizontal and vertical distances from the catch point to these additional offsets The section pivot offsets can also be assigned a description which the program reports before starting the slope staking For example a pivot offset could be 2 1 from flat bottom ditch which is reported to the operator When using section files a centerline file is also required to establish the horizontal alignment Any
207. tion is set to YES the software generates a report text file of the stake points The report file is named after the current coordinate file using a txt file extension The report contains the following Target Point Northing Easting Elevation Distance RMS PDOP Comment Elevation Difference E This command reports the elevation difference between a point and a surface model A negative elevation difference represents cut and a positive elevation difference is fill The surface model can be defined by a grid file triangulation file or template design files select which type at the first prompt The point can be entered as coordinates a point number from the current coordinate file or read from the total station SurvStar calculates the elevation at that position on the surface model and compares this surface model elevation with the point to report the elevation difference There is an option to store the point to the coordinate file with the elevation difference as the point description A vertical offset can also be entered to be added to the surface model Page 5 14 Total Station amp Manual Data Collection The grid file is a rectangular mesh with elevations at each corner shown on pg 4 20 The grid file has a grd extension and can be created in SurvCadd The triangulation file represents a triangulation mesh also shown on pg 4 20 This file has an flt extension and can be created in SurvCadd or Softdesk The maximum numb
208. u can have a coordinate file with over 5000 points The amount of free bytes on the computer is shown in the main menu Besides allowing point numbers with letters alphanumeric points also store efficiently without fixed file positions and can handle high point numbers such as 501101 The disadvantage to alphanumeric points is that Sur vCOGO is designed for numeric points and only a few essential SurvCOGO routines are available for alphanumeric points Point Notes Point Notes are additional descriptions that can be stored with a point A regular point consists ofa point number northing easting elevation and 32 character description These points are stored in a CRD file Point Notes are a way to add an unlimited number of lines of text to a point number With Point Notes ON in the Store Point command the program will prompt for notes after collecting a point The notes are stored in a file that uses the name of the coordinate file with a NOT extension For example a coordinate file called JOB5 CRD would have a note file called JOB5 NOT Point Data in Point Notes When storing a point this option will store the point number northing Data Collection GPS Page4 5 easting elevation and description in the point notes as well This may be used as a backup or reference to coordinate data as it was originally stored RMS or CEP SEP in Point Notes When storing a point this option will store the horizontal and vertical RMS values in the
209. urvStar installation program You will not be able to install SurvStar without it To run the com program first connect your Dap to your PC with the provided download cable Next run com on the Dap by typing C COM at the DOS prompt Make sure that your Com Port is set Page1 6 Overview correctly generally you will use COM2 on the Dap To change the Com Port type 6 then the number of the desired Port then 0 to return to the main menu You can also change your baud rate by typing 4 the number that corresponds to the baud rate then 0 Once the Dap is set up it s time to set up the PC for transfer From DOS go to the directory where the com exe file is located Type COM at the DOS prompt From Windows double click on the com exe file Check the selected Com Port Use option 6 to change to the correct Com Port for your PC Use option 4 to set the PC to the same baud rate that you set on the Dap Next press 2 on the PC for Master mode Within seconds you should see the Dap go into Slave mode If this does not happen then there is a no communication between the Dap and PC Check your download cable as well as the Com Port and baud rate settings on both the PC and Dap Select 1 to send a file from the PC to the Dap Press 2 to send a file from the Dap to the PC Then enter the name of the file you wish to send press enter then type the name of the file as you want it to be received to use the same name press F3 and
210. urve PI points be known For purposes of keyboard entry the beginning of the curve segment is referred to as the PC and the end of the segment as the PT These points may be different from the PC and PT of the entire curve We will enter LOT 2 first as follows IA INVERSE WITH AREA STARTING POINT 241 We could start at 235 by entering PC235 Printout INVA 241 1137 4945 864 4806 POINT PC235 Printout INVA 235 NEO011100 1388 63 1326 0806 868 3760 SELECT CURVE DERIVATION OPTION 1 KNOWN RADIUS AND DELTA ANGLE 2 KNOWN PI AND PT 3 KNOWN 3 POINTS ON CURVE 4 KNOWN PC AND RADIUS 5 KNOWN PI AND TANGENTS 1 2 4 FOR AREA 2 4 FOR COMPOUND CURVES 4 RADIUS 223 CURVE LEFT OR RIGHT L OR lt R gt L PT OF TANGENCY PT 224 Note In area mode other options not provided RETURN FOR FAST AREA OR ELSE ANY KEY RETURN Note Usually press RETURN Slow area is used only when the property crosses back through the segment area above the chord as explained below SurvCOGO Page 6 53 Printout RADIUS 75 DEGREE OF CURVE 76 DEG 23 MIN 39 SEC TANGENT 72 95 INTERSECTION ANGLE 88 DEG 24 MIN 41 SEC ARCLENGTH 115 73 CHORDLENGTH 104 59 POINT 244 Printout INVA 244 SE852735 118 00 1344 0735 1086 9561 POINT 242 Printout INVA 242 SW 011100 205 68 1138 4425 1082 7086 POINT 241 Printout INVA 241 SW 89 4504 21823 1137 4945 864 4806 AREA 43561 42 S F 1 000033 ACRES LOT willalso beenteredas anexample
211. with such a format Inany metric system configuration METERS will substitute for FEET Inthe 400 circle metric configuration all bearings will print as azimuths and will take the form 7 54 474 as in 387 9146 Item20 FEET METERS VERTICAL ZENITH This configuration item has two purposes First it distinguishes full Metric partial Metric and English unit operation Secondly it controls the type of vertical angle used in field measurement A typical entry would be FZ representing English unit operation and use of the zenith angle Considering first the units of measurement there are three acceptable characters in the first position of config item 20 These are F Angles are in the form of degrees minutes and seconds using a 360 degree circle Distances are in feet Areas are in square feet and acres Scaling for screen plotting purposes takes the form inches per feet as in 1 200 m Distances are in meters or units Areas are in square units and cuerdas The horizontal circle is the same as in English 360 divided into degrees minutes seconds All scaling is in units per unit as in 1 3000 This isa partial metric configuration that applies in particular to Puerto Rico It applies also to Canada with the exception of the area printout in cuerdas M Full metric configuration All distances are metric Area is in square meters and hectares Horizontal angles and vertical angles are based on the 400 circle
212. with the target point ofthe centerline being at the center Instead of showing the North and East values the program shows the station offset and whether your current position is left or right ofthe centerline The fifth method is similar to centerline stakeout except you do not need an actual centerline file This method is called Point on Line SLN and it allows you to stake to a line formed between two points You may specify these two points by either entering the coordinates or choosing two points from your coordinate file During stakeout an R or L after the distance specifies your position Grid file in 3D view Triangulation file in plan view Triangulation file in 3D view Data Collection GPS Page 4 27 right or left of the line This assumes your back is to the first point entered and you are facing the second point A CUT or FILL measurement is also given This assumes that the target line is a straight line from the first to the second point in all directions There are several options in stakeout The Report option generates a report text file of the stake points The report file is named after the current coordinate file using a TXT file extension The report contains the following Target Point Northing Easting Elevation Distance RMS PDOP Comment The Laser option does stakeout by reading the Atlanta Laser Gun or the Impulse Laser Gun config ure under the Laser Options menu The RMS option di
213. within the COGO routine The values set in configuration will always be the default values Accepted entries from the main COGO menu are as follows a AR sets angle right mode eliminating the ANGLE BEARING CODE prompt All angle bearing entries would be considered angles to the right b AZ sets azimuth mode eliminating the ANGLE BEARING CODE prompt All angle bearing entries are taken as azimuths c ABC restores ANGLE BEARING CODE prompting d BR sets printouts in bearing form ie SE 45 15 07 Page 6 20 SurvCOGO e AZ sets printouts in azimuth form 1e AZ 134 44 53 10 Enter TON to activate text prompting within the Traverse Routine Prompting will then appear as ANGLES CODE ANGLE BEARING DISTANCE ZENITH ANGLE POINT NUMBER DESCRIPTION 11 Change configuration item 20 to FV MV or mV to obtain vertical angle prompting instead of zenith angle prompting The vertical angle can then be used to reduce slope distances or carry elevations The vertical angle reads 0 degrees horizontally with 2 degrees being uphill for example and 355 degrees being downhill Prompting would appear as ANGLES CODE ANGLE BEARING DISTANCE VERT ANGLE POINT NUMBER 12 Enter HI to activate the HI mode of carrying elevations Methods of carrying elevations are covered later but prompting in zenith angle mode would appear as follows ANGLES CODE ANGLE BEARING DISTANCE ZENITH ANGLE HGT OF INSTR
214. zimuth In this way bearings are carried forward from backsight to foresight Ifa mistake is made during entry just make use of Inverse to go from the last good backsight to the last good setup Then continue to Traverse Page 6 14 SurvCOGO In the example traverse above we never returned to the main COGO menu This is because we entered menu options at initial prompts within one routine to transfer to another routine For this reason we refer to the COGO programas command driven T T and E as wellas all other menu items act as hot keys In both Enter amp Assign and Inverse the prompt POINT NUMBER can be used to transfer to another routine Within Traverse the first two prompts can both beused to transfer Thus when asked for ANGLE CODE or ANGLE BEARING the user can enter E and go to Enter amp Assign However when asked for DISTANCE the entry E would be takenas a0 distance Itisonly the initial repetitive prompts within each routine that allow transfer to another menu item Entering M at the transfer prompts returns the user to the main COGO menu Both the output and the prompting within the Traverse Routine are subject to change based on program configuration and certain modes set by the user Let s review the configurations and modes that would determine the above screen only output Active Modes Configuration for Above Printout and Prompts 1 Configuration item 17 is set to N for norma

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