MAGNET Field offers a special routine with simultaneous robotic total station measurements and software calculations providing the stakeout of known points or lines that are inaccessible for direct measuring and marking, for example hidden inside a wall.
Point stakeout in Drape mode assumes using of an accessible plane to calculate and then stake out the projection of inaccessible point to this plane and calculating "drilling" distance form projected point to inaccessible point.
Line stakeout in Drape mode assumes using of an accessible plane to calculate and then stake out the intersection point of the inaccessible line with this plane and calculate the distance from the start point of the inaccessible line to the intersection point.
The scheme below displays two points and two lines staked out in Drape mode. Design 1, Design 2, Design 3 are inaccessible design points inside a wall. The robotic total station scanned and automatically defined a single accessible plane (a wall) for all inaccessible design points and made stakeouts in Drape mode for two points: Design 1 (resulted in Design 1_stk) and Design 2 (Design 2_stk); and two lines: Design 1 - Design 3 (resulted in Design 1_3_stk) and Design 2 - Design 3 (Design 2_3_stk).
Drape mode is available for specific stakeouts:
Click and select Setup - Drape mode in the menu of any dialog listed above to activate. With Drape mode activated, the title of stake dialog includes (Drape) at its end, the target type switches to
non-prism, and the Drape Options dialog will open for configuring Drape mode after clicking Next. Configurable drape options depend on the type of staked object.
Note: To change the non-prism target type, click
in the title bar. Selection of another target type quits Drape mode.
Additional options become available during stakeout routine in the Stake dialogs when using Drape mode.
More information: Quick guide for point stakeout in Drape mode; Quick guide for line stakeout in Drape mode.