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Spectra Precision Layout Pro Field Software Quick Start Guide User Manual

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With a robotic total station, you can use the

Shoot button

to take a measurement (the instrument will switch to
whatever EDM mode is set in the instrument settings for
this measurement, and then will switch back to Tracking
EDM). This will update the “text” guidance information on
the screen but will freeze it until the

Shoot button is used

again. The graphic guidance will, however, continue to be
updated as you move to the stake point, based on the
measurements made by the instrument.

For both types of total stations, you can re-shoot as many
times as necessary until the rod is within an acceptable
range of the correct position. Tap

Stk> when an acceptable

position is established. (Tapping

Store would allow you to

store any measurement made for a point of interest
located somewhere around the stake point.)

7. Tap

Store & Next Pt to store the position of the rod and to

go back to the

Define Stake Point screen from which you can

select the next point you want to stake.

NOTE 1: In robotic, you can also use quite the same
procedure as with a mechanical total station. Tap the

Aim

button at the beginning of the process (rather than the

Next

button) to bring the instrument in line with the stake point.
Move the rod to be in line as well. You can then use the track
lights to keep in line and move to the point location. Also,
when you get in line with the instrument and the stake point,
you can alternatively enable the Auto-Track function to make
it easier to get to the point location.

NOTE 2: Do not confuse the “Auto-Track” function (LockNGo
on FOCUS 30), i.e. the capability of an optical instrument to
continuously track the rod, and the “Tracking” EDM mode,
which is an operating mode through which an EDM performs
continuous distance measurements.

Mechanical

Robotic