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7. Coordinate Mode
Press the key „CORD‟ to enter Coordinate Mode. According
to the diagram below, please set up the coordinate of the station,
azimuth angle, target height and instrument height before
coordinate measurement.
Center of
lens
HT
(t
ar
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t
he
ig
ht
)
S D
Center of
instrument
In
st
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me
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he
ig
ht
Station(NO,BC,ZO)
HD
Z(
VD
)
Coordinates of
unknown point
(N1,B1,Z1)
Coordinates of the center of
instrument =NC,BC,ZC+
instrument height
Coordinate measurement diagram
There are three pages for the coordinate mode, being
switched with soft key „F4‟. The functions explanation are as
followed:
On the First Page:
Save: save measurement
After pressing soft key „F1‟,a dialogue box of „Information‟
appears to the screen to ask you to enter „Point name‟, „Code‟ and
„Target Height‟. The natural name of the point is to add „1‟ to the
previous point name. The code entered depends on your
requirements and the target height depends on facts. Press „ENT‟
to save measurement. If having not selected file at first when
pressing „Save‟ under Coordinate Mode, a dialogue box of „Select
File‟ will be on the screen before „information‟. You may now
select file for saving.
When the measurement is out of the scope of compensator,
the instrument will display „Tilt over!‟ , and the distance
measurement don‟t work and the coordinate data can‟t be stored.