Nate The Surveyor
Well-Known Member
One of the wonderful things about the Javad LS is the concept that all points shot from a single base name, are made into a single entity, allowing that group to be shifted, as one. In math class, one is known as "Unity".
Well, this unity of points association broke on me twice now.
I have a job, that I started back about a year ago. Friday, I used the same job. Except, I set my base station about a mile SE of the old base station. I set the base up autonomous, and used "Reverse Shift" (press the SETUP hardware button 2x) to update the coordinate, for my new base station. Well, the connection between the points from that base, are, shall we say, not connected. It shifted my shot to the old point, but did not move my base. Thus, all my work was performed off the autonomous solution. I spoke with Shawn Billings about it. He said he'd seen it before, but that he did not often "Return to old jobs". I do it frequently. Also, he told me to watch for the "Shift Icon" to be sure it shifted.
On a previous Job, it DID shift it, but with an error.
So, I recommend, don't altogether trust this feature. (Reverse Shift). The best is to re occupy a point in the old data base, to check.... I had a check... I thought, because of dpos... however, dpos only shifts the BASE around, and moves none of the sideshots.
Also, I'd much appreciate being "Kept in the loop" Let me know when changes are made in the database. So, I can be extra watchful. (I'm assuming some changes were made in the data base, to allow PPK, and something bit me.)
I can salvage my day of work. But, figuring it out, has cost me 2 days of work now. And, I also have to re compute this job. (Shift is 1.78' horiz).
Thank you,
Nate
Well, this unity of points association broke on me twice now.
I have a job, that I started back about a year ago. Friday, I used the same job. Except, I set my base station about a mile SE of the old base station. I set the base up autonomous, and used "Reverse Shift" (press the SETUP hardware button 2x) to update the coordinate, for my new base station. Well, the connection between the points from that base, are, shall we say, not connected. It shifted my shot to the old point, but did not move my base. Thus, all my work was performed off the autonomous solution. I spoke with Shawn Billings about it. He said he'd seen it before, but that he did not often "Return to old jobs". I do it frequently. Also, he told me to watch for the "Shift Icon" to be sure it shifted.
On a previous Job, it DID shift it, but with an error.
So, I recommend, don't altogether trust this feature. (Reverse Shift). The best is to re occupy a point in the old data base, to check.... I had a check... I thought, because of dpos... however, dpos only shifts the BASE around, and moves none of the sideshots.
Also, I'd much appreciate being "Kept in the loop" Let me know when changes are made in the database. So, I can be extra watchful. (I'm assuming some changes were made in the data base, to allow PPK, and something bit me.)
I can salvage my day of work. But, figuring it out, has cost me 2 days of work now. And, I also have to re compute this job. (Shift is 1.78' horiz).
Thank you,
Nate
