Setting Units

[John Gallagher]

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

[cadrum]

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.

[John Gallagher]

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

[Jason Poitras]

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.

[cadrum]

Good Info.
Thanks Jason