When you add the Data Collector module, the Data Collector Properties dialog appears with this tab.
If you select the module in the Tree view after you have added the module, the categories and settings of this tab appear in the Properties view.
Use the Round Settings tab to view and edit more Data Collector properties, such as tolerance thresholds.
The settings of this category pertain to the configuration of round measurement.
Enabled points: Shows the number of configured points that are enabled for being measured in a round. To view and select the points to be measured, set the focus into the value field and click the browse button. This opens the Enable/Disable Points dialog.
Round mode: Specifies the mode in which the targets will be measured, see the table below.
Mode |
Description |
Example, 3 points to measure |
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F1/F2... |
Each target is measured in both faces, before the total station measures the next target.
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1st measurement: Point 1 - Face 1 2nd measurement: Point 1 - Face 2 3rd measurement: Point 2 - Face 2 4th measurement: Point 2 - Face 1 5th measurement: Point 3 - Face 1 6th measurement: Point 3 - Face 2 |
F1… F2... |
All targets are first measured in the first face, before the total station repeats the round to measure them in the second face. |
1st measurement: Point 1 - Face 1 2nd measurement: Point 2 - Face 1 3rd measurement: Point 3 - Face 1 4th measurement: Point 1 - Face 2 5th measurement: Point 2 - Face 2 6th measurement: Point 3 - Face 2 |
F1.../...F2 |
All targets are first measured in the first face, then the total station repeats the round to measure them in opposite order in the second face. If the property Repeat measurement is set to Yes, missed targets will be measured in both faces. |
1st measurement: Point 1 - Face 1 2nd measurement: Point 2 - Face 1 3rd measurement: Point 3 - Face 1 4th measurement: Point 3 - Face 2 5th measurement: Point 2 - Face 2 6th measurement: Point 1 - Face 2 |
Repeat measurement: Specifies whether a measurement shall be repeated if a target was either not found because of an obstacle, or if the integrity check failed. If set to Yes, the respective targets will be measured once again at the end of the round.
Note - Each target measurement will be repeated once after a round. If the second attempt also fails, the next round in a set of rounds will start. If at least one of the rounds of a set of rounds is successful, the successful measurements will be used. The failure attempts nevertheless will be written to the database and flagged as failed measurements. Only, if no successful target measurement is available for the whole set of rounds, the appropriate alarms and warnings will be triggered.
Enable slope distance fallback: If the measurement conditions are bad, for example, due to weather turbulence, it may happen that the tracker cannot lock the target, and the measurement fails. To avoid a situation without any measurement, set this property to Yes. In this case, the tracker is disabled. The total station system tries to measure the slope distance. Default: No.
Note - The fallback functionality needs a minimum distance of 400m.
Ignore compensator out-of-range: Only available for Trimble devices. In an environment where leveling the compensator is impossible or accuracy of the measurement is less important, you might set this value to Yes. In this case, the scheduler ignores the compensator out-of-range message from the instrument and continues measuring even if the instrument is not leveled properly. This setting does not influence the "Compensator out-of-range" alarm: This alarm will nevertheless be triggered if the compensator is not leveled properly. Default: No.
Max. connect attempts: This property pertains to a round measurements after a successful connection to the instrument (either scheduled or manually started). It specifies the maximum number of attempts to connect to an instrument if a round measurement could not be finished due to a connection loss. Select a value between 0 and 10. Default: 3.
Set of rounds: Use this setting to specify how many rounds (1, 2, 3, or 4) are combined to one set of rounds. If a set of rounds consists of more than one round, the next round measurement will start as soon as the previous one has finished. - Measuring the round of targets repeatedly in both faces increases the redundancy in the adjustment of unfixed points and thus increases the accuracy of point positions. The Data Collector module sends each set of raw round measurements in a bundle to the terrestrial processing engines. The terrestrial processing engines take these bundled raw measurements, (optionally) combine them with data from other total stations belonging to the same mission, apply weather corrections on them, and estimate one raw position from the set of rounds. Then, they make the raw measurements of each round in both faces together with one estimated position available to the adjustment functionality of the depending Integrity Monitor modules. The adjustment functionality computes a mean from the two face measurements in each round and uses these values in combination with the estimated rough position in its adjustment process. The results of one set of rounds are displayed as one event in the Integrity Monitor views, such as thedisplacement charts.
See Also Data Collector Properties - General Settings |