Setting Export Defaults

Use the Export Defaults to specify the properties for exporting survey data to a field book file.

When you select the Export Figures With Network property, the format of the figure data exported to the field book is dependent on the conditions of the survey data as shown in the following.

• If the figure vertex has a point number, then the figure vertex is defined by referencing the point in the field book file:

  BEG <figure name>

  PT <point ID>

• Then the following lines are added to the field book file:

  NE SS <point ID> <north> <east> <elevation> <description>

  BEG <figure name>

  PT <point ID>

• Then the following line is added to the field book file defining the figure vertex:

  FIG NE <north> <east>

• If the figure segment is a curve, then the curve segment is defined using the XC ZD (BULB) command. The BULB parameter is used when the delta angle for the curve is greater than 180 degrees.
• If both ends of the curve segment reference point IDs, then the following format is output:

  XC ZD (AZ <point ID> <point ID>) (D <point ID> <point ID>)

• Otherwise the following format is output:

  XC ZD <Azimuth> <Distance>

If you select the Export Point Identifiers property, for each figure vertex, the following formats are output to the field book file.

• If the figure vertex has a point ID, then the following lines are added to the field book file:

  BEG <Figure name>

  PT <point ID>

• If the vertex does not reference a point ID, then the following lines are added to the field book file:

  BEG <figure name>

  FIG NE <north> <east>

• If Export Point Identifiers property is not selected, the following lines are added to the field book file:

  BEG <figure name>

  FIG NE <north> <east>

• If the figure segment is a curve, then the curve segment is defined using the XC ZD (BULB) command. The BULB parameter is used when the delta angle for the curve is greater than 180 degrees.
• If both ends of the curve segment reference point numbers (and if this check box is selected), then the following format is output:

  XC ZD (AZ <point ID> <point ID>) (D <point ID> <point ID>)

• Otherwise the following format is output:

  XC ZD <azimuth> <distance>

When the Export Point Data is enabled, for each figure vertex that references a point ID, the following format is output to the field book file prior to the section defining the figures:

NE SS <point ID> <north> <east> <elevation> <description>

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