Chapter 11. Calculation jobs

Polar method

Polar method

The Polar method dialog serves to manually calculate the point coordinates measured by the polar method.

Before the calculation of the measured points, you first have to enter the station coordinates and orient the set of horizontal directions.

Station coordinates

The stations' coordinates can be entered manually (eventually fill in only the point number and let the coordinates be filled in automatically) or mouse-dragged from the coordinate list.

Orientation of set

The steps for orientation of the set of directions are described in the previous chapter.

Similar points

Polar Method

If you have oriented the set of horizontal directions, you can use the bookmark Calculated point switch to the second part of the dialog window, and start to calculate the measured points. The data can be filled in manually in the editing windows or mouse-dragged from the list. If an active coordinate list is chosen, the calculated points are automatically stored in it. If you don't want to store them, you have to cancel the active list (command File->Active coordinatess list, item [None]). If you don't have an active coordinate list set (or if you want to store the point on another list and eventually use it in other calculation window as an input data) you can mouse-drag it in the same way as you drag the points from the coordinate lists.

If you want to calculate the coordinates of more point at the same time, you can select such points on the measured data list and drag the entire selected block at a time.

Note

During this calculation method, the selected block must not reach the next station because this job can't automatically perform new set orientation. In case you want to calculate more stations at a time, use Batch Polar Method.

If you mouse-drag the data, the coordinates will be calculated immediately after the drag. If you enter the data from a keyboard, you have to press the button (Calculation) (can be pressed from anywhere by the key <Alt-V>).