Spectra Precision Survey Pro v4.6 Recon and Nomad User Manual - Manual (Page 112)

User’s Manual – Conventional Mode
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Staking the Road
With your road fully designed, you are now ready to stake the road.
Staking a road is a simple and intuitive process. If you are familiar
with point staking, you should be able to easily stake a road.
This section explains how to get started using the Stake Road routine
and then refers you to the point staking example when the screens
become identical.
1. Tap Roads , Road Stakeout from the Main Menu to
open the Stake Road screen.
2. Tap the Tap Road… button to open the Tap on a
Road screen. All of the roads that exist in the current
job will be displayed.
3. Tap on the road that you want to stake and then tap
. When the road is selected, it will be drawn with a
bold line.
4. If the backsight is not yet defined, tap the
Backsight… button to set up your backsight.
5. With the road selected and the backsight set up, tap
Next > to continue. The next screen that opens
shows the profile of the road at the starting station.
6. In the Station field, enter the station that you want to
stake and in the Station Interval field, enter the
distance that you want the Station to advance when
you are ready to stake the next station.
7. Use the << and >> buttons to select the node (the
segment end point) on the template shown in the
graphic area of the screen that you want to stake.
Each press of either of these buttons will advance the
selection to the next node and display the name of
the selected segment in the middle of the screen. The
selected node is shown in the graphic portion of the
screen as a red circle.
8. You can optionally stake an offset to the selected
node by entering the offset distance in the Offset