Good morning,
One thing that I haven’t been able to nail down is what units are being represented in the report generated after performing a coordinate transformation (Helmert or Rigid Body) regarding the translation values. The scale and rotation units are straightforward, but I can not for the life of me figure out what translation units are being reported. We work within the metric system here in Canada and in New Brunswick we use NAD83 Double Stereographic NB.
We do a lot of coordinate transformations, and are required to keep detailed records so we can defend in court of law, or in an audit by the Association of New Brunswick Land Surveyors. I love the Carlson Survey coordinate transformation interface and the ability to perform a rigid body transformation (huge upgrade over the C&G function) for transforming to local survey evidence or between the older adjusted iteration of our control network and the more modern high precision control network.
I just can’t figure out what units are displayed in the report concerning the translation quantities. I also can’t figure out how to find the settings for any reporting (not just the coordinate transformation report) so that I can tailor them to our business’s needs. We switched to Carlson survey from C&G DOS about 5 years ago and I love the modern interfaces and Carlson commands over the C&G commands (despite how intuitive those are, being able to use Windows is nice, and frankly, more normal – the older gentleman around these office are still dragging their feet but, I digress). I’d like to be able to automate reports to become more efficient in our office procedures, and customizing these reports to automatically output what we need would be a time saver over the traditional “printer” files that we have been using since C&G DOS was introduced to our business years ago.
Are there any tutorials on reporting and customizing reports? I have searched the Carlson Manual but I’m not having much luck turning anything up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe