Survey user settings are specific to a Windows user login account and affect only the survey features, not project or drawing data.
Specify the default settings for importing and exporting survey data and the display of interactive graphic components.
Tips for working with Settings
- Default Survey Database Settings can be set up and can then be used each time you create a new survey database.
- Survey database settings can be exported to file with a *.sdb_set extension.
- Survey User Settings can be exported to a *.usr_set file.
- You can create a .sdb_set for imperial or metric survey database settings, or for use with for specific coordinate zone.
- Have everyone in your organization use the same path for the Survey User Settings.
Topics in this section
- Setting the Survey Database Defaults
Specify the settings for survey database features.
- Setting the Current Equipment Database
Specify the current equipment, equipment database, and equipment database path.
- Setting the Linework Processing Defaults
Specify the default path for the linework code set.
- Setting the Figure Prefix Database
Specify the current and default figure prefix database and database path.
- Specifying External Editor Settings
Specify whether to use an external editor for displaying analysis input and output and for editing field book and batch files.
- Specifying Interactive Graphics Settings
Use Interactive Graphics settings to control the display of survey components during import and entry of survey data.
- Setting Import Defaults
Specify the Import Defaults properties for importing a field book or batch files into the selected project network.
- Reporting Tolerance Errors
Display tolerance errors in the Event Viewer at the completion of survey data import or run the command from the network collection or an individual network on the Survey tab.
- Setting Export Defaults
Use the Export Defaults to specify the properties for exporting survey data to a field book file.
- Setting Display Preview Behavior
Use the Network Preview, Setup Preview, and Figure Preview settings to specify the preview properties when an item is selected in the Toolspace Survey tab.
- Importing and Exporting User Settings
Import and export existing user settings.