Just got the Tracker yesterday and everything is working smoothly with one exception.The distance units under the main menu -> settings -> units/scale are set to feet and it won't let me change them.
The box isn't exactly greyed out,but the drop down menu dosen't want to work.
Any advice?
Thanks,
John Gallagher
Setting Units
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John Gallagher
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Setting Units
John Gallagher
Distance units
John,
Don't know about the Tracker, but on my iPaq I notice that I cannot change the Distance Units once the project file is created. It appears only during the initial creation can you choose this.
Don't know about the Tracker, but on my iPaq I notice that I cannot change the Distance Units once the project file is created. It appears only during the initial creation can you choose this.
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John Gallagher
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- Location: Long Island New York
Distance Units
Thanks,that worked!
I had downloaded the survey of our office from MSCAD to play around with outside with a gun,and noticed I couldn't change to US Survey feet.
For most of the jobs we do it wasn't that big a deal,I was just curious.
Thanks again
I had downloaded the survey of our office from MSCAD to play around with outside with a gun,and noticed I couldn't change to US Survey feet.
For most of the jobs we do it wasn't that big a deal,I was just curious.
Thanks again
John Gallagher
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Jason Poitras
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Hello,
Once a project is created we "lock" the units so they are not accidentally changed in the middle of your survey.
However, if you need to change the units for whatever reason you can do it by editing the raw file. In the raw file you will see a MO record which contains a UN record type. The UN record type stores the unit that was selected when the project was created.
MO,AD2,UN0,SF1.000000,EC0,EO0.0,AU0
UN0 = FEET
UN1 = METERS
UN2 = US FEET
If you edit the last MO record in the file and set the UN value, the next time you open the project it will change the units for you.
Once a project is created we "lock" the units so they are not accidentally changed in the middle of your survey.
However, if you need to change the units for whatever reason you can do it by editing the raw file. In the raw file you will see a MO record which contains a UN record type. The UN record type stores the unit that was selected when the project was created.
MO,AD2,UN0,SF1.000000,EC0,EO0.0,AU0
UN0 = FEET
UN1 = METERS
UN2 = US FEET
If you edit the last MO record in the file and set the UN value, the next time you open the project it will change the units for you.
Jason Poitras
General Manager
jason.poitras@microsurvey.com
General Manager
jason.poitras@microsurvey.com