Advanced Settings

The Advanced Settings option permits individual customization of many aspects of the software functionality:

• Audible Settings: Permits customization for the auditory feedback aspects of SurvPC.
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  • Enable Sound in SurvPC: This serves as a master control for sound effects in SurvPC.
  • Voice Selection: Use this option to specify a desired voice tone.
  • Stakeout Prompting: Indicate if voice prompting should be utilized when in stakeout mode and when Voice Prompting is enabled:
    • Include Units: This will include units with each measurement (e.g. "One Hundred Feet" when enabled, "One Hundred" when disabled).
    • Prompt Cut/Fill: This will include Cut / Fill values with the stake measurements.
    • Notify Inside/Outside Tolerance: This will notify the user whether a current measurement is inside or outside of the preferred tolerance values.
    • Prompt Angle: This will include the angle if selected in Stakeout options (e.g. Bearing, Azimuth, and Deflection).
    • Prompt Frequency This is the time between spoken messages.

      Note: The Auto option will automatically increase the spoken frequency as the user approaches the selected stake point.

  • Announce instrument status change: When enabled, this will notify the user of an instrument status change (e.g. Fixed, Float, etc) for GNSS receivers.
• GIS Input Settings: Provides customization when working with GIS data.
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  • Store Pts/GIS Centroid: When enabled, the centroid location of a closed polygon will be stored as GIS information in fields: Point ID Centroid, X, and Y. Each field is in the GIS export.
  • Fast Access to Point GIS Data: When enabled, available GIS data can be accessed quicker. When performing traditional survey operations, it is recommended to keep this option off.
  • Compact GIS UI: When enabled, more fields of GIS data will be presented on the dialog box user interface resulting in fewer "pages" of data to process. The trade-off is the edit box controls won't be as wide as they'd otherwise be:

    

    

  • Automatic Recall Last GIS Values: When enabled, the last response(s) during GIS prompting will become the default value(s) for newer GIS prompting.
  • Use Finnish NLS Store Points Style: Applies specifically to file formats used in Finland.

    Note: When enabled, the Use SWC Store Points Style cannot be used and vice versa.

  • Use SWC Store Points Style: This special style, although designed for particular companies, may have some general application. This option is designed for numeric field codes (e.g. 10, 11, 101, 102, etc). Although the screen appearance of the points is not altered, with this option clicked on, two preset GIS attributes are established.

    

    A special button appears (as shown above) within the Feature Code Library command, which when clicked, leads to two preset attributes for each point:

    

    Preset within PTCLASS are four selectable class values (measured, control, average and TPS). All of these attributes can be customized. The attribute prompting applies only to field-measured points, not points created in the Map Screen with the various Create Points commands. If Time Stamp Each Point is enabled, then use of the SWC Style leads to a specially formatted point list when Export ASCII file is used. There, the SWC option leads to the format below:

    Pt ID, Northing, Easting, Elevation, Feature Code, Action Code, Description, Date, Time, HRMS, VRMS, PTCLASS, Measurement Code /Backsight Prism Offset/Foresight Prism Offset

    Note: The prism offsets in the ASCII Export file apply only to the "TPS" point class or total station measurements.

  • Allow GIS Data Prompting for STK Points: When enabled, an extra prompt will appear to select GIS attributes to associate with the staked points. The GIS prompts associated with the feature code will follow on the next screen(s).
  • GIS Data to be Skipped: When enabled, an additional button similar to GIS is added to the Prompt Height/Description dialog box that permits the measurement to be stored without adding GIS data:

    

  • Store Pts/Draw GIS Plines: Similar to the Store Pts/GIS Centroid option except the points being referred to are the begin/end points of the linework.
  • Show Attribute Types: When enabled, the type of data (e.g. Character, Real, Integer, etc) will be presented to help guide the proper type of data entry:

    

• Photo Settings: Provides customization when working with photograph data.
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  • Include Point Name in Photo File Name: When enabled, the point name (point number) will be integrated into photos taken while locating a point. The ability to take a photo while collecting a point is established by enabling the Prompt for Height & Description option of Equip -- Configure. The included point name will take the format of the following prefix to the photo name PN_[PointName]([Date][Time]).

    Note: The Date component of the regular photo name is governed by the Job Settings - Date control.

  • Save Image Links to Esri SHP As Hyperlinks: When enabled, paths to photos will be formatted as click-able hyperlinks when the data is exported to the Esri SHP file format.
  • Invert Camera Image: When enabled, the orientation of the photo will be rotated 180° (turned upside down).
  • Include attached image in JDB file: When enabled, photograph images will be stored within the active Job File database.
  • Photo Quality: Indicate the preferred resolution of the photos.
• Software Settings: Permits customization for usage characteristics found throughout SurvPC.
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  • Quick Access Button: Commonly used in the Store Points and/or Stake Points routines, this option adds an additional control to the measurement routines which permits quick access to other data/information:

    Quick Access Button Examples

    Option	Result
    Text/View
    Active Linework/View

  • Allow "Navigate To" in Store Points: When enabled, this option adds additional options that permit the ability to navigate to a desired point (e.g. a predetermined section corner location) so its location can be measured:

    

  • Configure: Indicate additional options regarding the type of additional navigation information that is desired during navigation mode.
  • Use Matching Elevation Precision: When enabled, the elevation precision for stored points will be synchronized to the precision as established under Point Settings.
  • Retain comments after STORE: When enabled, information following the "/" character within a point description is retained after performing a Field-to-Finish update operation.
  • Description AutoFill: Controls how the keyboard entry of the description edit box works on the Prompt for Height & Description screen:
    • User Controlled: SurvPC does not try to automatically select a code from the list at all.
    • Unhighlight Found Exact Item: When a point description is typed that exactly matches a Feature Code, the text will not highlight.
    • Highlight Found Exact Item: When a point description is typed that exactly matches a Feature Code, the text will highlight.
  • Switch Category/Group: Controls whether or not the first feature code within a code group is pre-selected when a category change is initiated.
  • Font Name: Specifies the desired font to be utilized within the product.^†
  • Font Quality: Specified the desired appearance of the selected font within the product.^†
  • Use write caching: When enabled, data may be held in volatile memory until the destination file location is ready to receive the data. This option may help improve device performance but a sudden power failure or system crash subjects the data to loss.

  ^†Note: A restart of the application may be needed to reflect the desired change(s).

• Save Map Settings: Permits configuration when working and interacting with the Map Screen.
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  • Include Pt Blocks in the current DXF on Save: When enabled, this option will include any specified point block symbols when the underlying DXF is saved. While this option permits the transport of symbols within the DXF file, it may slow the loading of DXF files on slower computers, especially if there is a massive amount of data being conveyed.

    Note: Also see the Map Screen File - Export .DXF command for additional options.

  • When saving the Drawing use version 2000: When enabled, this option will save to a much earlier drawing format which makes the file openable by software applications that don't accept newer file formats.
  • When saving the Drawing use unused Codes (Layers): When enabled, the layer(s) of unused Feature Codes will be written into the drawing.

    Note: For extensive feature code lists, this option may dramatically slow the file save operation and result in bloated file sizes.

  • Import drawing files into job folder: When enabled, any DXF, DWG and/or DGN files that are imported into the current Job will also be organized into a Drawings folder.
• BIM Settings: Permits customization when working with the BIM module.
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  The following settings aid with the configuration of the BIM functionality.

  • Create Projected Boundaries: When enabled, closed-shape "footprints" (projections on the Cartesian plane) of the BIM file.
  • Tolerance: Specify the allowable tolerance between BIM elements.
  • Use Single Layer for Boundaries: When enabled, all boundaries are placed onto a BOUNDARIES_SOLIDS layer.
  • Compute Stationing for Straight Corners: When enabled, stations are used for PICK to stake, and corners usually show the faces at the start/end of objects.
  • Alternate IFC Solid Names: Indicate the format of an alternate name if a generic name is detected in the BIM file.

    Note: If the IFC creator misses the Name of the Shell/Solid, SurvPC will try to find it using keywords (e.g. NumberC* (wildcard)) and you can add more: NumberC*;Name^;etc.

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