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What will be the best procedure to check column verticality

I am on a job site where I am building a facility.

I have to layout pile, anchor bolt and check the pipe rack column to see if is vertical.

Is someone can tell me what will be the best procedure using Trimble Vx Robotic Total Station on the field to c

Traverse Adjustment Using SurveyingX App

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Traverse Adjustment Using SurveyingX Mobile App

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LEICA TS-06 ROAD 3D

Hello, I want to import alignment in total station and every time I'm trying total station is not opening and writting warning: "no data imported, due to useless transfer" please can anyone show me the way how to import.

at first I exported alignment

PDF Map Maker Will Save You Time

This morning I created a printable map of a short Seattle walking route, taking in some of my favorite record shops and cafes.

I created the map using the excellent PDF Map Maker.Which means my map is now a handy PDF file, which I can e-mail to my f

Trimble 5700 Not Tracking Satellites

Hi AllHi all I recently bought a Trimble 5700 on ebay auction. I have updated the equipment to recommend v 2.32 for the GPS week roll over. However the system is not tracking any satellites when I hook up the Zephyr Geodetic antenna.Any one with a

Northing Easting error. Need help.

I surveyed a long path, starting from two GPS points and ending with another two. But, at the beginning, I have entered E,N instead of N,E as the occupy point. I only realize this when I try to close the traverse. Is there any easy way to correct thi

CAD construction from disto measurements....how to?

Heya,

It's been a long time since I posted here, but here goes. I've been a surveyor for a number of years now and I'm very technical adept. I'm not the quickest surveyor but I always manage to come home with everything I need, in the required qualit

CIVIL 3D ( Two Different Alignments Need One Same Profile)

Respected Member,

                                        Please help me to find out solution. I have two different alignments ( Same Lenght) in one civil 3D drawings. One of my alignment has NG and Designed Profile. I want to show same NG and Design

Hello All,

Finding Jobs in File System on CC80 smart tablet

Hi all, Im trying to locate a job that was deleted from a project.  Does anyone know where jobs and their measurements are stored on the local machine? iCON / Leica / cc80 / smart tablet

Quiz for Surveyors New to the Field

Rob Migliore‎ shared this with us.... let's see how well you do...

I sometimes give an easy quiz to potential field and CAD people during their interview, just to get an understanding of their experience.
I wonder how many of you can answer these ques

TOPCON GTS-3B

what is the HD/CD

Mode, and how do you turn it off?

UAV mapping in 8 different industries

With its advantages of fast, efficient, flexible and low cost, UAV tilt photography technology is slowly subverting the traditional surveying and mapping operation mode. It has become the “new darling” of the surveying and mapping industry. Applyin

Loose fitting plastic caps

The last two orders of caps I purchased for 5/8" rebar slide easily on and off the rebar. One order was from Stakemill and the other from Berntsen. Since both call for a model 5000 with either Permamark or PM I suspect both caps are permamark caps. W

Instrument Seems to Lag location

We are having a problem with a robotic total station.

It appears that the point stored is not actually where the prism is at but at a location whose position varies from the true location.  Sometimes the shot taken on the curb appears 0.5 feet into th

Standard Symbols for site facilities

Hi guys,

could you pleas guide me how to show the site demolished walls and inlet outlet according to the standard symbole in a topographic map.

Thank you. 

How many feet in a Square Acre of Land?

A question that I often receive from new land surveyors is  How many feet is a square acre?

I am not quite sure why this stumps so many, but this is basically what I tell them with they ask.

A square enclosing one acre is approximately 69.57 yards, or

Setting Radio Protocol on Newdi M3

Hi Surveyors,

I have used 4 units of GNSS Newdi  for 6 months which are set base and rover only on Newdi Equipment.

I plan to utilize Newdi can be operated interacting with another gnss (hi-target, south and chc) over same radio protocol.

Through wifi

Traverse intersection points

Hi guys,

I am a bit confusing with the naming of the bechmarks when there be tow or more BMs those are share between tow travers, would we have to name them the same? or we have the option of give name the deffrent name for each travers? 

thanks