Improvements for Carlson Survey Desktop - Release 2.0

[General Commands] [Data Conversions] [SurvNET Least-Squares]

General Commands

• Land Desktop 2006 – Added support for LDT 2006 so that Carlson Survey Desktop supports versions LDT 3 to 2006.
• Data Collection – For downloading coordinates, added an option for point protect to check the coordinate file for existing data before writing the data collector point. For SurvCE transfer, added support for transfer via USB using ActiveSync and added a routine to upload a point number range of a coordinate file. Also for SurvCE, downloading rw5 files will create a second copy with a .sc5 extension to serve as an archive.
• Field To Finish – Added new // special code that appends the full name of the second code.
• Edit-Process Raw File – Added processing option for backsight reciprocals whether to average elevation or elevation and distances. Added processing options for store point records whether to always store, never store or store only when missing in the coordinate file. Also for store points, new process option to hold store point coordinates and report differences from measurements to these points. For reporting coordinate comparisons, added process option for check points based on a code in point description that includes the point number. After processing, added option to run Field-To-Finish for the range of processed points. On processing with adjustments, improved detection of closing measurements for better defaults of closure settings. Added a report option to use a tabular report viewer that groups sections of report data under separate tabs for quick viewing. Added report options for point protect and store point conflicts. For direct-reverse processing, reports difference between horizontal turned angles from FD-BD and FR-BR and added separate tolerance setting for these angle differences. For the graphics view, added an option whether to show the sideshot data. Backsight records will now keep both the backsight point and azimuth. When both values exist, azimuth is used. Added option to convert conflicting store point records into notes. For multiple measurement data, added option for reporting residuals and line numbers and added a method for averaging the measured distances. Added option to import coordinates from the point database by point number. Added a Go To line number routine. Added more color controls. Added an option for decimal seconds in the direct-reverse report. Added support for FD and BD only records. Added a setting for a special code in the descriptions of measurement records to identify the closing and angle balance measurements. Added a routine to export the GPS latitude/longitude/elevation data to a text/ascii file.
• Inverse - Added setting to control the decimal places on distances. Added option to report elevation difference.
• Intersection routines – Added the option for offsets in the bearing-bearing, bearing-distance and distance-distance intersection routines.
• Resection - Added option to report residuals.
• NEW Building Offset Extensions – New command to create extension points from corners of building polylines at specified offsets.
• NEW Edit-Process Level Data – New command with spreadsheet editor for entering level data. Level calculations are updated as data is entered. Includes processing and reporting.
• Enter Deed Description – Added option to define curve by tangent-out and arc length. Added option to convert distances between feet and meters.
• Process Deed File - Added ability to define non-tangent curve direction by PC to Radius angle. Also for curve editing, added delta angle field.
• NEW Deed Correlation – New command that takes a set of field and design/deed points and creates an inverse report like radial stakeout for each pair of points. Includes routine to find the best point to hold and the best point to rotate to.
• Legal Description – Added support for starting series up to beginning point and added support for reference points to other points besides beginning point. Added separate settings for curve radial-in and radial-out. Added routines to load and save the legal description settings.
• Label Station-Offset – Added option to label station and offset on same line.
• NEW Offset Point Entry – Creates points along a centerline at given stations and offsets.
• Calculate Offsets – Added ability to create point notes for the station-offset and to include point notes in the report.
• Cut Sheet - Added option to report cut/fill in feet and inches. For road design surfaces, added support for using Template Point Profiles and Template Point Centerlines. For point selection, added option to screen select points and added a button for selecting point groups.
• NEW Lot Layout – Creates lot linework along a frontage polyline at specified areas.
• NEW Offsets & Intersections – Offset street centerline polylines and fillets intersections.
• NEW Cul-de-sacs – Draws polylines for cul-de-sac radius and fillets onto street polylines.
• NEW 4 Sided Building – Simple routine to quickly make closed rectangular linework from two original sides.
• NEW Parking – Draws linework for parking stalls along an alignment.
• Sliding Side Area/Hinged Area – Rewrote the points method to simplify prompting. Added support for using point numbers. For sliding slide area, added method to specify by remainder area.
• Area By Closed Polylines- Added option to select exclusion areas.
• NEW Survey Text Defaults – Controls settings for several survey text routines.
• NEW Offset Dimensions – Annotates the distance between a point and a property line.
• NEW Building Dimensions – Annotates the lengths of a building outline.
• NEW Adjoiner Text – Draws text aligned to the selected linework.
• NEW Create Point Table – Creates a grid table of the point data for the specified points.
• NEW Draw 2D Polyline – Flexible routine to draw 2D polylines that combines several method and features.
• NEW Draw 3D Polyline – Flexible routine to draw 3D polylines that combines several method and features.
• Join Nearest - Added option to apply maximum deflection angle to joining linework.
• Extend By Distance – Added option for distance by feet-inches units. Added support for polylines with arcs. Made auto-zoom center an optional setting.
• NEW Boundary Polyline – Creates a closed polyline around a point and bounded by the selected linework.
• NEW Shrink-wrap Entities - Added method for spanning entities with gaps and added support for 3D Faces.
• NEW Erase By Closed Polyline – New command to clip and erase inside or outside the selected polyline.
• NEW Fillet 3D Polyline – Fillets a 3D polyline at a specified radius and interpolates the elevations.
• Entities To Polylines - Added support for converting splines and ellipses into polylines.
• NEW Text Explode To Polylines – Converts text entities into polylines.
• NEW Edit Polyline Section – New command for redrawing a section of a polyline.
• Polyline Report - Added the option to report elevations and slopes. Added support for using the report formatter.
• Deed and Polyline To RW5 File – Curve data is recorded as note records in the raw file.
• NEW Twist Screen – New commands to twist the screen view by various methods without changing the coordinates.
• NEW Export Alignment/Centerline – Commands to convert LDT alignments into Carlson, Leica or Sokkia format.

Data Conversions

• NEW FL DOT – In Edit-Process Raw Data, added routine to export FL DOT .OBS raw data.
• Geodimeter - Added options to strip decimals from descriptions and use info code in point description. Also added support for more methods of direct-reverse collection.
• Geoid Support - Added support for USA Geoid 2003. For Geoid 99, added support for Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
• NEW Kentucky State Plane - Added support for the new Kentucky single state plane zone.
• Leica GSI – Added option for converting between US and International feet units.
• NEW MOSS – In Edit-Process Raw Data, added routine to export MOSS raw data.
• NEW SDMS – In Edit-Process Raw Data, added import and export routines for SDMS raw data. In Write Text/ASCII File, added export of point data to SDMS ctl files.
• NEW TDS – Added routine in Field To Finish for importing TDS descriptor codes.
• NEW Trimble – In Edit-Process Raw Data, added routine to import Trimble raw data (.dc format).
• NEW VA DOT – In Edit-Process Raw Data, added routine to export VA DOT .TOP raw data.
• NEW Zeiss – In Edit-Process Raw Data, added routine to import Zeiss raw data.

SurvNET Least-Squares Processing

• The 3-d model of least squares adjustment is now supported. The main advantage of this adjustment model is that it is the preferred method of adjusting GPS vectors with total station data.
• GPS vector data can now be incorporated with total station data in a single adjustment. Vector files from Leica, and Thales can be input. GPS files in the StarNet format can be input.
• As part of the preprocessing process traverse closures can be computed. Closures for loop traverses and point to point traverses with or without angle closures can be computed. Multiple loops in the same raw file can be computed.
• As part of preprocessing GPS loop closures can be computed.
• The user has the option to compute unadjusted preliminary coordinates.
• A new blunder detection method has been implemented that is effective in detecting if the same point number has been used for two different points. This method will also flag other raw data problems.
• Another blunder detection method has been implemented that is very effective in isolating a single blunder, distance or angle in a network. This method does not require that there be a lot of redundancy, but is effective if there is only one blunder in the data set.
• Another blunder detection method has been implemented that can isolate multiple blunders, distance or angle in a network. This method does require that there be a lot of redundancy in the network to effectively
• isolate the multiple blunders.
• Differential level networks and loops can be adjusted using the network least squares program.
• Geoid modeling is now used in the least squares program. Users can choose between the Geoid99 or the Geoid03 model. The user can alternately enter the project geoid separation. The separation is used when combining GPS vectors with total station data and is also used in the computation of the elevation factor in the 2D model adjustment.
• Added description code to identify duplicate points with different point numbers.
• The speed of the least squares adjustment has been improved.
• The preprocessing of the data has been sped up and better preprocessing error messages are generated.
• The user can specify the confidence interval from 50 to 99. Previously the confidence interval was fixed at 99.