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Staking the road – Spectra Precision Survey Pro v4.5 Ranger User Manual User Manual

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Road Layout

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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 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. We will not use a station equation for this

example so leave that box unchecked. For

more information on using a station equation, see Page 95.

5. If the backsight is not yet defined, tap the Backsight… button to

set up your backsight.

6. 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.

7. In the Station to Stake field, enter the

station that you want to stake and in the
Station Interval

field, enter the distance that

you want the Station to Stake to advance
when you are ready to stake the next
station.

8. 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 at the