I have used the polyline feature in access numerous times on wind farm projects where we are staking road widening. We locate the CL of the existing road in the field then use those points to create the polyline. Give the polyline a start station that jives with the plans (typically an intersection CL/CL) use station and offset from line and station interval. Works fantastic with no office support needed.
Hi Robert. I’m new to Access. Very familiar with survey pro. I understand how you are keying in a poly line. But how do you add vertical components, such as vertical curves and slopes to the poly line to stake from. My office generally provides a CSV with no vertical data to load in the collector for me to create poly lines and alignments in the field from. Thanks so much for the help.
Hello Robert, I believe the only way you can turn a xml or polyline into a rxl is with the roads module. I appreciate your videos and find many very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to do these.
How do you get the alignments into a tsc3? I have three guys surveying a proposed alignment, but their tsc3 collectors will not recognize the dxf or xml.
Wont recognize as in - doesn't know the file is in their project folder, or it shows up but TSC3 won't let them do anything with it during survey? Or something else?
been a while... like the video, very helpful for newbies. gonna go off topic a little, been trying to figure out how to translate points in access 2017 without dedtroying my rtk vector data, maybe im missing something obvious. in survey pro i can move my base point and all gnss points will move with my base point with vector data intact, not so in access. any ideas?
Robert! Love the videos, do you happen to know of any books or other resources for surveyors using Civil 3D and creating surfaces? Most of my survey jobs require me to create surfaces out of the field data and was wondering if you had any pointers for editing surfaces or data within civil 3D? I know that there is a whole lot Civil 3D can do with the survey database and description key set. Any advice?
i use trimble business center for creating surfaces. but i do a lot of creating surface models for machine control for contractors in my area that run trimble machine control equipment.
If you setup a feature library you can define what will be in the surface. If a certain code you use is a break line or spot elevation, you can define it in the feature library. In civil 3d I also use description keys.
The Surveying company I work for always would use alignment and make offset points for pipeline ROWs easement points for staking. How would we go about calculating offset points in poly line????
@@SurveyingWithRobert my boss is just wondering if we will be available to calculate offset points with poly line or we need to buy roads or pipeline Trimble access software expansion.
to create the RXL, switch access from General Survey and select Roads. then select define, define LandXML Road, select xml alignment and it will create the RXL. then go back to the main menu, define, define RXL Road, then you can create your templates etc.
I have used the polyline feature in access numerous times on wind farm projects where we are staking road widening. We locate the CL of the existing road in the field then use those points to create the polyline. Give the polyline a start station that jives with the plans (typically an intersection CL/CL) use station and offset from line and station interval. Works fantastic with no office support needed.
That’s awesome! Sounds like what I would do.
Hi Robert. I’m new to Access. Very familiar with survey pro. I understand how you are keying in a poly line. But how do you add vertical components, such as vertical curves and slopes to the poly line to stake from. My office generally provides a CSV with no vertical data to load in the collector for me to create poly lines and alignments in the field from. Thanks so much for the help.
Hello Robert, I believe the only way you can turn a xml or polyline into a rxl is with the roads module.
I appreciate your videos and find many very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to do these.
You are absolutely right. Checked with my guy at Trimble and that’s what he said. However I think you could do that with an older version.
@@SurveyingWithRobert OH, you could definitely do it with older. You could also inverse point to line (by-line)... ROADS... lots of things.
How do you get the alignments into a tsc3? I have three guys surveying a proposed alignment, but their tsc3 collectors will not recognize the dxf or xml.
Wont recognize as in - doesn't know the file is in their project folder, or it shows up but TSC3 won't let them do anything with it during survey? Or something else?
Dig the beard Robert!
hi robert i wanna ask you how to do least square for polygone if you need it?
thanks
If the poly's gone I'd say that's about the least you can get.
been a while...
like the video, very helpful for newbies.
gonna go off topic a little, been trying to figure out how to translate points in access 2017 without dedtroying my rtk vector data, maybe im missing something obvious. in survey pro i can move my base point and all gnss points will move with my base point with vector data intact, not so in access.
any ideas?
Super helpful Robert. I look forward to applying this on Monday.
Robert! Love the videos, do you happen to know of any books or other resources for surveyors using Civil 3D and creating surfaces? Most of my survey jobs require me to create surfaces out of the field data and was wondering if you had any pointers for editing surfaces or data within civil 3D? I know that there is a whole lot Civil 3D can do with the survey database and description key set. Any advice?
i use trimble business center for creating surfaces.
but i do a lot of creating surface models for machine control for contractors in my area that run trimble machine control equipment.
If you setup a feature library you can define what will be in the surface. If a certain code you use is a break line or spot elevation, you can define it in the feature library. In civil 3d I also use description keys.
The Surveying company I work for always would use alignment and make offset points for pipeline ROWs easement points for staking. How would we go about calculating offset points in poly line????
Hummm..so I need another video it looks like.
@@SurveyingWithRobert my boss is just wondering if we will be available to calculate offset points with poly line or we need to buy roads or pipeline Trimble access software expansion.
You can do it with poly line
to create the RXL, switch access from General Survey and select Roads. then select define, define LandXML Road, select xml alignment and it will create the RXL. then go back to the main menu, define, define RXL Road, then you can create your templates etc.
And if you don’t have roads?
@@SurveyingWithRobert i don't know that answer to that. add the roads package?? or maybe with TBC??
Agreed! But my customer that wanted the video had neither 😉
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