Panels, Buttons and Indicators (Optical)

Status Panel and Tool Panel are displayed at the top of the dialog. The status panel contains indicators showing the current status of the connected total station and other equipment. The tool panel is available when a robotic total station is used and contains command buttons and indicators to control the robotic TS from MAGNET Field.

Click to show panels at the top of the dialog and toggle between the status panel and the tool panel. Click to hide panels at the top of the dialog.

Topo Panel is always displayed in the bottom of the dialog. The topo panel contains buttons to perform measurements and save the results to the current job. When the map view is used, the topo panel also displays information about the current point and measurement and has several input fields for quickly adjusting this data without exiting the map view.


Tools Panel for Robotic TS

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.

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, Convergence PPP stage in PPP mode or DION extrapolated solution.
  • The yellow bar indicates a float solution in RTK mode, PPP Low or PPP Normal solution in PPP mode.
  • The green bar indicates a fixed solution in RTK mode, PPP Full solution in PPP mode or DGPS solution.
  • The blue bar indicates a fixed solution when mmGPS+ is used.
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.

LN Series Laser Pointer: Turns the LN Series device's laser pointer on or off.
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.

Status Panel for TS

The total station is performing the observations.
The icon is displayed when Depth Finder is selected in the Peripherals dialog:
  • Gray ship - a depth finder is not connected to the controller;
  • Color ship with question mark - a depth finder is connected to the controller but it is not transmitting any data;
  • Color ship with green curves - a depth finder is connected to the controller and it is transmitting data.
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 bar is over low (from 20 to 40%);
  • One red horizontal bar 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%).

Topo Panel for TS