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Survey Pro Field Software
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Introduction to the Survey Pro User Interface
Home Screen and
Main Menu
On launching Survey Pro, you will first be asked to open a job. When done, the
software will open at the Home screen. The home screen shows a selection of
the functions you will most frequently use in the field. You can customize the
Home screen based on your needs.
If this is your first time using Survey Pro, a message box will inform you how
you can customize the items and layout of the functions on the Home screen
(see How to Customize the Home Screen on page 5).
Because some of the available Survey Pro functions are mode dependent
(optical, GNSS, Post Process), there is a different Home screen for each mode.
That also means there is a slightly different default Home screen depending
on which instrument is used. See below, from left to right: Optical, GNSS, Post
Process.
How to Customize the Home Screen
A message is displayed right after opening or creating a job asking you to “Tap
and hold on menu items to manage the Home screen”. This message prompts you
to customize the Home menu so that only the functions you will most
frequently be using in the field will be made available from this screen.
After you have become familiar with the customization process and next time
you launch Survey Pro, you can dismiss the message by checking the Don’t ask
this again prompt before tapping OK to close the message.
Adding a Function
This is a three-step procedure:
• Go to the Main Menu, then to the submenu containing the function you
would like to add to the Home screen.
• Tap and hold the corresponding function item and select Add to Home.
Survey Pro then shows the Home screen with all the possible free locations
for the new function, all represented as unnamed icons. Note at this point
that all the icons are shown with the same background color (see example).
• Tap on a free icon (an unnamed one) or on the icon of an existing function.
The new function is inserted at the tapped location. Icon colors are then
restored.
If you tap on an existing function, this function and the next ones are
shifted down by one location. Survey Pro will automatically create a new
page of Home screen if the resulting number of functions on the screen is
greater that what the screen can accommodate.
Removing a Function
On the Home screen, tap and hold the function you want to remove and select
Remove Item. This instantly removes the function from the Home screen.
Moving a Function
• On the Home screen, tap and hold the function you want to move and select
Move Item. Apart from the function you want to move, which keeps its
original appearance, all other function items change color to blue.
• Tap on the location where you wish to move the function. This may be a free
location, or the location of an existing function. If you tap on an existing
function, the moved function will be inserted at the selected location and
the function at that location and the ones that follow will be moved down.
Home Screen Pages
The default home screen consists of a single page. You may add up to three
additional pages as part of the Home screen in order to make your many
favorite functions accessible from this set of pages.
• Adding a page is done by tapping and holding any function on the Home
screen and selecting Insert Page Before or Insert Page After.
• Switching from one page to the other is done by tapping on radio buttons
at the top of the screen.
• Removing a page is done by tapping any location on that page and selecting
Remove Page. This action requires user confirmation.
Connecting Survey Pro to an Instrument
Before you start taking new measurements in a job, you must tell Survey Pro
if an optical instrument or a GNSS receiver will be used to perform the job.
NOTE: Selecting an instrument only makes sense when Survey Pro is running on a data
collector. If it’s running in the instrument you are using (e.g. FOCUS 30), only this
instrument can be used in Survey Pro.
Before you make this choice, power on the instrument. This will allow the data
collector to detect it and establish a radio, Bluetooth or serial connection with
it when asked to do so.
With GNSS equipment, you may simply use a rover receiver, or both a base
receiver and a rover receiver. In the latter case, it’s good practice to start your
survey having both receivers running side by side. This way, you can complete
the setup of both receivers and ensure they are communicating on the data
link, and you are getting a fixed position at the rover.
When using a serial connection to start a base and rover, the data collector
must be connected to the base receiver first. Once the base is set, disconnect
the cable from the base and connect it to the desired rover.