Status and Tools Panels (Optical survey)

For optical survey with Robotic total station you can see the following buttons in the tools panel:

Quick lock with RC-3 or RC-4: The RC-3 or RC-4 Remote Control system is used for wireless communication with robotic total station. Click the button to force the total station to make quick search and lock on a prism with attached remote control device.
Quick lock with RC-PR3: The RC-PR3 Remote Control system is used for wireless communication with robotic total station. Click the button to force the total station to make quick search and lock on a prism with attached remote control device.
Quick lock with RC-PR4: The RC-PR4 Remote Control system is used for wireless communication with robotic total station. Click the button to force the total station to make quick search and lock on a prism with attached remote control device.
Quick lock with RC-5: The RC-5 Remote Control system is used for wireless communication with robotic total station. Click the button to force the total station to make quick search and lock on a prism with attached remote control device.
Hybrid Lock: Clicking on the icon automatically turns the Robotic Total Station to the reflector. To search the reflector, the software has to have the coordinates of the occupation point (where the Robotic Total Station is set) and current coordinates of a point where the rod (with GNSS antenna and reflector) is set in WGS -84 coordinate system.

The icon is displayed when the Hybrid Positioning™ mode is activated.

The icon is available when the localization are performed or Grid to Ground transformation is selected or a Grid coordinate system was selected for Total Station measuring.

Laser Pointer: Turns the laser pointer on or off. Available for certain total stations only.
Turn: Opens the Rotate dialog to turn the Total station to various angles or points.

Arrow joystick: Allows to rotate the total station from a controller.
If a controller has the arrow joystick and the Virtual Joystick option is not active, clicking the icon activates the controller's arrow joystick for total station rotation. The icon's arrows become green.

If the Virtual Joystick option is active, clicking the icon opens the Remote Control (Virtual Joystick) dialog, containing virtual joystick for total station rotation.
Search: Forces the total station to aim to the prism without starting of measurements.
Search & Measure: Forces the total station to aim to the prism and make the measurement.

Search & Lock:
  • Starts the instrument to search,
  • locks onto the prism, tracks it and makes the measurements.
Stop: Forces the total station to stop tracking the prism and go into a "Standby" mode.

Click the icon to toggle between the status panel and the tool panel.

The robotic total station is tracking and performing the observations.


The GNSS solution is available. The icon is displayed in TS mode when the Hybrid Positioning™ mode is activated.

  • The red bar indicates an autonomous solution in standalone mode or Convergence PPP stage in PPP mode.
  • The yellow bar indicates a float solution in RTK mode or PPP Normal solution in PPP mode.
  • The green bar indicates a fixed solution in RTK mode, or PPP Full solution in PPP mode or DGPS solution.
  • The blue bar icon indicates a fixed solution with mmGPS+.

Instrument battery charge level:

  • Four green horizontal bars is full (from 80 to 100%);
  • Three green horizontal bars is medium (from 60 to 80%);
  • Two yellow horizontal bars is low (from 40 to 60%);
  • One yellow horizontal bars is over low (from 20 to 40%);
  • One red horizontal bars is none (from 0 to 20%);

Shows the status of connection with the instrument:

  • the connection with the robotic and conventional total station is established;
  • the transmission data with the robotic total station is broken;
  • the connection with the robotic and conventional total station is broken.

Controller memory free space in the percentages and battery charge level statuses. The icons with a question mark mean the corresponding information is unavailable. An exclamation mark on the battery means critically low charge level (from 0 to 10%).
Opens the Topo survey settings to view and edit.

Topo panel

The TopoPanel along the bottom of the dialog displays a number of buttons used to provide information and facilitate surveying.