Spectra Precision Survey Pro v4.5 Ranger Reference Manual - Manual (Page 50)

Survey Pro Reference Manual
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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
the imported coordinates, the error after the conversion could be
significant.
Units for Angles: defines the units used for angles as Degrees or
Grads (gons)
.
Display Directions as: will display directions as a Bearing or
Azimuth
.
Azimuth type: defines if you are using a North Azimuth or a South
Azimuth
.