Stake

The Stake tab controls the reporting appearance of the stakeout navigation information.

• Style: Indicate the preferred method to determine
  • Legacy: This is the traditional stake-out method where a target location is specified and navigation to the target location commences.
  • Proximity: Proximity stakeout divides the task of staking out into two stages:
    1. The first stage is when the field crew is a long distance from the point and needs to navigate as quickly and directly as possible to the general vicinity of the point.
    2. The second stage is used when the crew is very close to the point. In this stage, the field crew has stopped walking and needs final left/right and in/out directions to precisely locate the point.

    Note: The point of transition between these two modes is governed by the Radius setting.

  • Locate:^† The Locate option essentially permits a re-measure of a point to be staked. Such a scenario might involve the updating of a location gathered with a low-accuracy piece of equipment (e.g. perhaps an L1-only GPS antenna that had been in Autonomous mode during initial reconnaissance work) with that of a more accurate and precise piece of equipment.

    Note: The effective tolerance between the initial location and that of the updated location is governed by the Radius setting.

• Direction Method: Choose the desired reference information that is most appropriate for your situation and personal preference:
  • In-Out & Left-Right to Ref: Nearly all surveyors choose this method with total stations, with Reference Object set to Instrument. In this scenario, if you are staking a point located 100 meters from the instrument, and take a measurement at 97 meters and nearly on-line, the program will respond, "Out 3, Right 0.25."
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    If the In-Out & Left-Right method is selected, additional options become available to further define left-right:

    • Ref. Object: Although Instrument is the normal reference with a total station, the Ref. Object box allows you to choose a stationary point by which the directions will be referenced. This point can be either the instrument or a known point. If Ref. Object is set as:
      • Instrument: Left is defined as left of the line between the instrument and the rod.
      • Point: Left is defined as left of the line between the point and the rod.
    • Move Relative to: Allows you to specify whether the directions are relative to the stationary point selected in Ref. Object or to the moving Rod.
  • North-South, East-West: This method is better suited to GPS work and is subject to having a sense, in the field, of the north direction. For instance, the program might advise, "North 3.582, East 1.917."
  • Azimuth & Distance: This directs you to the point for stakeout by the total distance and the azimuth based on the Angle setting.

    Note:The Use Horizontal Clock system option converts the 360 (or 400) circle into a 12-hour circle with 60 minutes per hour and is used in certain military applications. North is 12 o'clock.

  • Bearing & Distance: Similar to Azimuth & Distance except bearings referenced from North and South are used for the direction.
  • Direction L/R & Distance: Available only in GPS mode, you are advised "Right", "Left" or "On-Line" as you move to the target point, along with a distance update.
  • Deflection L/R & Distance: Available only in GPS mode, you are given precise advice in terms of the deflection angle left or right to turn, as you are walking, to move to the target point.

  Note: Both Direction L/R and Deflection L/R use the recent vector of your movement to determine the Left/Right instruction.

• Tolerance: Indicate how close you need to be to the point being staked to consider it "close enough" to stake.

  Note: This is the same value as set under the Tolerances command.

• Use CL for Ref. Object (when applicable): This option overrides the settings above, and if the stakeout involves a Centerline, the program will direct the user by distance In/Out from the centerline and Forward/Back along the centerline.
• View Style: This option allows for configuration of screen space in Stakeout routines:
  • Measurements: The Measurements option shows the x,y,z position of the target point and also the Next Point.
  • Navigate Data: This tends to be the most popular setting as multiple lines of stakeout data (up to 6) will be shown on-screen.

    Note: For data collectors (controllers) that have arrow keys, the down-arrow (or the F2 key if available) will collapse the data down to 1 or 2 lines and the up-arrow (or the F3 key if available) restores the larger screen.

    Note: It is also possible to tap and hold the lower graphic horizontal line and drag down to collapse the text and enlarge the graphics. However (and due to the sensitivity of some touch screens) you must precisely drag down just a few pixels of the lower graphic window.

  • None: Shows only one line of data, the Next Point with Description and Height.
• Minimized View: (shown below) When accessed from an active stakeout command, a Minimized View toggle will appear. When enabled, a single line of stakeout data will be presented compared to the more verbose full report.

^†Note: When configured for the Esri AGOL environment, Locate becomes Esri Locate: