Spectra Precision Survey Pro CE v3.6 User Manual - Manual (Page 186)

Job Menu
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Units Settings
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 , 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 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 you created a
control file by hand-entering a list of coordinates in a new job where
the job was set to
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 selected the previous job as a
control file for the new job, the display of all of the coordinates in the
control file would be converted from Feet to US Survey Feet.