does civil 3d have a best-fit coordinate transform option in survey?

[daniellench]

i may have asked this before,

my survey department has a DOS program from 1995 called Transform from GeoSoft.

it does not work well or at all in win 7 even with the XP mode virtual machine.

the program does a least square analysis with the ability to add or remove known points from the process, then outputs an adjusted file.

can the survey tab/database do this? if so how.

he is the only one left on XP32 and he is very particular

all the best and any information would help.
-dan

[Sinc]

The Survey Database can perform a least-squares adjustment on traverses... Then it can recalculate any sideshots taken from the control points, assuming you import your survey data via a FBK file or equivalent (e.g., something that transfers the instrument's observations to C3D, and not a reduced set of coordinates).

Not sure if that's what you mean...

-- Sinc
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[daniellench]

i think we tried that route once?!
i will revisit it.

anyone know of a good walkthrough?

while i'm proud of them for adopting civil 3d , their close mindedness is killing me. still doing asc files, no in field line work coding and a crew chief who is (sigh)

is anyone still using q-legal also or have you adjusted reports to output correctly Edited by: daniellench on Mar 9, 2010 1:40 PM

[Anonymous]

We still use Q-Legal. It does our deeds very well, very fast.

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