Spectra Precision Focus 6, User Manual

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Spectra Precision Focus 6 5" Total Station User Guide
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Getting Started
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After each button press, the input mode field displays
the selected letter. For example, if you press
[1]
,
S
appears. If you quickly press
[1]
again,
T
appears. If you
do not press the
[1]
button again, the letter T is selected.
Once you select a letter, the cursor moves to the feature
code beginning with that letter.
If there is no code beginning with that letter, the cursor
moves to the next available letter.
Qcodes
Quick codes (Qcodes) let you shoot and record many
points with feature codes in the field. You can register
up to ten Quick codes. To register Qcodes, press the
Edit
softkey. For more information, see Quick code
measurement mode, page 49 .
B
Tip – Press [MODE] to switch Qcodes on or off.
Press the
Edit
softkey to change the Qcode. You can edit the entire code, or just the
number at the end of the code.
You can still use
[DSP]
to change the background displays.
Entering values in feet and inches
If US Survey Feet (US-Ft) or International Feet (I-Ft) is selected as the distance unit,
you can enter and display distances, HIs, HTs, and coordinate values in decimal feet or
in feet and inches. See also
Unit, page 131 , and Others settings, page 132 .
To enter values in feet and inches in an input screen, enter the elements, separated by
periods (.), in the following format:
The default denominator is 16. If the denominator is 16, you do not have to enter it,
and it is not displayed on the screen.
For example, if you enter
[2] [.] [0] [8] [.] [5] [.] [ENT] , it appears as
2'08" 5/
(2 feet, 8
and 5/16ths inches).
<Feet>
[.]
<Inches>
[.]
<Numerator>
[.]
<
Denominator>
[ENT]
(0–11) (0–15) (0–99)