Basic Staking Question

[Jim Campi]

Gentlemen,

As an engineer I survey primarily for preparing topographic base maps for my design work as well as as-built drawings at the completion of a project. I have not yet used the LS for staking.

I will be completing soils testing in a 10,000 sq ft area on a rural 100 acre parcel. This site has no natural landmarks that I can use for locating this area.

I want to use the LS to find a single stake in the center of the test area. In general can I load a dwg that contains a grading plan and stake a particular point or is more appropriate to load a file with only the points that I want to stake? The grading plan is 3.6 MB.

 

[Phillip Lancaster]

I would rather use a dwg over points any day! Rename page 5 as DWG and collect your points on like O or 1.

 

[Jim Campi]

Load the dwg on new page and simply use staking function for the point in question? Sounds too easy but I'm finding that's the benefit of using the LS.

 

[Matt Johnson]

If you load the whole drawing it sounds like there will be 1000s of points and it may crash the system. Only load the layers you really need.