Spectra Precision Survey Pro v4.5 Recon and Nomad Reference Manual - Manual (Page 49)

Job Menu
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Units Settings
Job Settings Units .
The Units Settings card defines the units that are used within the
software, sent from the total station, entered from the keypad and
displayed on the screen. You can select the following settings for your
project from the following dropdown lists.
Units for Distances: defines the units used for length as
Meters, International Feet, or US Survey Feet.
Note: You can enter a distance in any distance field in
units other than what is set for the job by appending the
distance value with the following characters:
y f or ft or ift International Feet
y usf or usft US Survey Feet
y i or in Inches
y m Meters
y cm Centimeters
y mm Millimeters
y c or ch Chains
Once the cursor leaves that field, the distance will be
converted automatically. (A space between the value and
the unit abbreviation is optional.)
Warning: When creating a new job, it is important that the Units for
Distances field be set to the correct units. This allows you to
seamlessly switch between different units in mid-job.
Problems can arise if these units are inadvertently set to the incorrect
units when entering new data. For example, assume a new job was
created by hand-entering a list of coordinates where the job was set to
International Feet and the coordinates being entered were in US
Survey Feet. Now assume you created another new job and correctly
set it to US Survey Feet. If you then imported the hand-entered points
from the other job, they would be converted to different units when no
conversion should have taken place. Depending on the magnitude of